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Staging Coyote's Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English

Staging Coyote's Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English

Edited by Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles

Staging Coyote's Dream brings together ten major plays by First Nations playwrights living in Canada and the United States.

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Standing at the Sky's Edge

Standing at the Sky's Edge (West End edition)

By Chris Bush and Richard Hawley

Chris Bush and Richard Hawley's musical, a history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate. Winner of the Best New Musical award at the 2023 Olivier Awards.

Standing at the Sky's Edge

Standing at the Sky's Edge

By Chris Bush and Richard Hawley

Chris Bush and Richard Hawley's musical, a history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate. Winner of the Best New Musical award at the 2023 Olivier Awards.

Stanley

Stanley

By Pam Gems

A brilliant and painfully truthful portrait of Stanley Spencer, the wayward genius of modern British painting.

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The Starry Messenger

The Starry Messenger

By Kenneth Lonergan

A bittersweet exploration of love, hope and the mysteries of the cosmos.

Start Swimming

Start Swimming

By James Fritz

A play about occupation, revolution and what the future holds for today’s youth.

Statues

Statues

By Azan Ahmed

A witty, honest, and deeply moving play exploring the impact of loss, and what you can gain from it. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024.

Staying Alive

Staying Alive

By Kat Roberts

A darkly funny and achingly tender play about the death of a child.

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The Steamie

The Steamie

By Tony Roper

A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.

Published in volume Scot-Free
    Steel

    Steel

    By Chris Bush

    A play exploring the last three decades of women in politics, asking what's changed and what still must.

    Steel

    Steel

    By Lee Mattinson

    A hilarious and heartfelt play set in West Cumbria, about first loves, forging identities and the wild, wild hearts of teenage boys. First performed at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, in 2024.

    Stereophonic

    Stereophonic

    By David Adjmi

    The electrifying, Tony Award-winning play set inside the elusive world of a recording studio, as a rock band on the brink of superstardom attempts to create their difficult second album. Published alongside the West End production in 2025.

    Still

    Still

    By Frances Poet

    Frances Poet's play is a cathartic story of life, loss and joy, full of tenderness and humour, as five Edinburgh souls stagger towards each other and are transformed.

    Stolen Secrets

    Stolen Secrets

    By Fin Kennedy

    From the heart of London's East End, Stolen Secrets are urban fairytales, bold, lyrical and gruesome, that can be performed individually or together for maximum shock value.

    Stones in His Pockets

    Stones in His Pockets

    By Marie Jones

    Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.

    Published in volume Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays
      Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays

      Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays

      By Marie Jones

      Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, and an earlier monologue A Night in November.

      stoning mary

      stoning mary

      By debbie tucker green

      Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology.

      Stoopud Fucken Animals

      Stoopud Fucken Animals

      By Joel Horwood

      A pitch-black comedy complete with wickedly entertaining songs, from the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning writer of Food.

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      Stop/Over

      Stop/Over

      By Gary Duggan

      A night of debauchery and delicate connection in a play set in the city that never sleeps.

      Storefront Church

      Storefront Church

      By John Patrick Shanley

      A compassionate morality tale about a elected official in the Bronx forced into a confrontation by the mortgage crisis, Storefront Church is the concluding part of John Patrick Shanley's 'Church and State' trilogy of plays.

      Stories

      Stories

      By Nina Raine

      A funny and touching play about the fertilisation of an idea. Premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2018.

      Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran

      Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran

      By Bahram Beyza'ie, Abas Na'lbandian and Mohammad Rahmanian Translated by Soheil Parsa, Peter Farbridge and Brian Quirt

      Four plays from leading Iranian dramatists, translated into English for the first time: Aurash, The Death of the King, Stories from the Rains of Love and Death and Interrogation.

      Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

      Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

      By Jo Carson

      Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.

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      Straight White Men & Untitled Feminist Show: two plays

      Straight White Men & Untitled Feminist Show: two plays

      By Young Jean Lee

      Two compassionately subversive plays about identity, by Young Jean Lee, a Korean American playwright whose work is groundbreaking, humorous and often thrillingly transgressive.