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Sorry, You're Not a Winner

Sorry, You're Not a Winner

By Samuel Bailey

A powerful and striking play that explores aspiration, social mobility and getting caught between classes.

Sotto Voce

Sotto Voce

By Nilo Cruz

An imaginative exploration of the power of memory, love and human connection.

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The Sound Inside

The Sound Inside

By Adam Rapp

A riveting play about a creative writing professor at Yale and her brilliant, rebellious student, exploring the limits of what one person can ask of another.

The Southbury Child

The Southbury Child

By Stephen Beresford

A darkly comic play exploring family and community, the savage divisions of contemporary society and the rituals that punctuate our lives.

Space Girl

Space Girl

By Helen Stanley

An action-packed play for young performers and audiences, bursting with songs and imagination, celebrating curiosity, resilience and exploration. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by young people.

Spacewang

Spacewang

By Tom Wells

A monologue play in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens.

Published in volume The Kitchen Sink
    Spanish Plays

    Spanish Plays

    Edited by Elyse Dodgson and Mary Peate

    A collection of modern Spanish and Catalan plays in translations by practising English playwrights, commissioned and first staged by the Royal Court Theatre.

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    The Spanish Tragedy

    The Spanish Tragedy

    By Thomas Kyd

    A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    Speaking in Tongues

    Speaking in Tongues

    By Andrew Bovell

    A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana.

    Speech & Debate

    Speech & Debate

    By Stephen Karam

    A fiercely funny play by the Tony Award-winning author of The Humans.

    Speechless

    Speechless

    By Linda Brogan and Polly Teale

    The true-life drama of the extraordinary bond between two identical twin girls and their struggle to find a voice.

    Speed

    Speed

    By Mohamed-Zain Dada

    A wickedly comic play set around a speed awareness course. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Milli Bhatia.

    Spiderfly

    Spiderfly

    By John Webber

    A taut, thrilling debut play for two actors, premiered at Theatre503, London.

    Spinning

    Spinning

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    A contemporary tragedy set in small-town Ireland, by one of Ireland's most exciting playwrights.

    Spooky Action at a Distance

    Spooky Action at a Distance

    By Eve Leigh

    A hard-hitting, poignant play about anti-immigration sentiment in Britain today. In the Multiplay Drama series.

    Spring Awakening

    Spring Awakening

    By Frank Wedekind Translated by Julian Forsyth and Margarete Forsyth

    Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.

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    Spring Awakening: A Musical

    Spring Awakening: A Musical

    By Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik

    The groundbreaking rock musical about teenage sexuality, with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik.

    Spunk

    Spunk

    By George C. Wolfe

    A dazzlingly entertaining dramatisation of three stories by the celebrated black iconoclast, Zora Heale Hurston: a rich folk tapestry of rural and urban black America in the 20th century.

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    St Nicholas

    St Nicholas

    By Conor McPherson

    An eccentric, teasing yarn from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

    St Petersburg

    St Petersburg

    By Declan Feenan

    A haunting, elliptical play by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.

    Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays
      St Petersburg and other plays

      St Petersburg and other plays

      By Declan Feenan

      Three haunting, elliptical plays by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.

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      Stacy

      Stacy

      By Jack Thorne

      A darkly confessional monologue for one male performer and a slide projector.

      Stacy & Fanny and Faggot: two plays

      Stacy & Fanny and Faggot: two plays

      By Jack Thorne

      Two troubled, disturbing but bleakly funny plays from a leading writer of Channel 4's Shameless and Skins.

      Stage Kiss

      Stage Kiss

      By Sarah Ruhl

      Sarah Ruhl, one of America’s most widely produced playwrights, brings her unique mix of lyricism, sparkling humour and fierce intelligence to the world of romantic comedy.