Plays

A unique collection of five surprising and exciting plays from Mexico, in English translations, selected by the Royal Court Theatre, London.

Elizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England, adapted for the stage by the author of Iron and The James Plays.

A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.

A bittersweet and hesitant duologue in a bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers.

A short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.

A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.

Rattigan's play about obsessive love, a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.

Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.

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

A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.

A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.

A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.

A war-time Exeter family takes in an evacuee from London.

A short play about domestic abuse, and its terrifying impact on families.

A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.

The debut play from the author of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti, taking satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions.

A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.