Plays
Singer
An epic fable of post-war Britain, told with lurid and exhilarating energy.
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A Single Act
A subtle and menacing play about life after a terrorist outrage.
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Singular Female Voices
Three remarkable short plays for one (female) actor.
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Singular Male Voices
Three plays for one (male) actor, each giving voice to a character in extremis.
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Sister Suzie Cinema
The Collected Poems and Performances 1976-1986
A 'doo-wop opera' inspired by Lee Breuer's coming of age amidst the pop culture of the 50s.
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Six Acts of Love
A bittersweet play about the rich complexities of life, love and death.
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
Pirandello's most famous play, about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong version)
Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong.
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The Six-Days World
An emotionally involving family play that evokes the poignancy and the poison of the festive season - from the award-winning writer of The Sugar Wife.
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Sixty Five Miles
By Matt HartleyA devastating drama about family and the ties that bind us together. Winner of the Under-26 Award at the 2005 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.
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Skin & Liars: Two Plays
By Dennis FoonTwo plays from one of Canada's leading writers and directors of theatre for young people.
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The Skriker
An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.
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Skunk
By Zawe AshtonA surreal, dreamlike and hilarious play exploring the pressures and transformations that happen to teenagers as they grow up. In the Multiplay Drama series.
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Skyscraper Lullaby
By James FritzA powerful drama about two parents trying to come to terms with the disappearance of their toddler, written and first performed as an audio drama for Audible Original.
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Slave Play
A play that rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America. New edition published alongside the West End production in 2024.
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£10.99£8.79
Slave Ubu
By Alfred JarryThe third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.
Published in volume Ubu
The Slaves of Solitude (stage version)
By Patrick Hamilton Adapted by Nicholas WrightA fascinating blend of dark hilarity and melancholy, woven from Patrick Hamilton’s much-loved story about an improbable heroine in wartime Britain.
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Sleep Deprivation Chamber
By Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne KennedyA gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience of twentieth-century America.
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Sleeping Beauty (stage version)
By Rufus NorrisThe classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.
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The Sleeping Beauty (stage version)
A variation on the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty, by the 'master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).
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slope
An intimate and hedonistic examination of a nineteenth-century love triangle between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, and Verlaine's young wife, Mathilde.
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small
A compassionate and probing play about youth and aging, nostalgia and regret, and the dangers of refusing to get old. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people.
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The Small Hours
A National Theatre Connections play about teenagers, nightlife, and the small choices that have momentous consequences.
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