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Plays

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Smelling a Rat

Smelling a Rat

By Mike Leigh

A black comedy/farce from the author of Abigail's Party, premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1988.

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Small Tragedy

Small Tragedy

By Craig Lucas

A remarkably funny, sharply articulated missive about tragedy in the contemporary world.

The Small Things

The Small Things

By Enda Walsh

A fierce and devastating fable about enforced silence.

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Small Island

Small Island (English Mastery Secondary set text)

By Andrea Levy Adapted by Helen Edmundson

A stage version of Andrea Levy's epic novel tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain - set text edition for the English Mastery Secondary programme.

Small Island

Small Island (stage version)

By Andrea Levy Adapted by Helen Edmundson

Andrea Levy's epic novel tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson.

The Small Hours

The Small Hours

By Katherine Soper

A National Theatre Connections play about teenagers, nightlife, and the small choices that have momentous consequences.

small hours

small hours

By Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime With Katie Mitchell

A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, dissecting the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.

small

small

By Holly Robinson

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.

slope

slope

By pamela carter

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.

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

By Rufus Norris

The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.

The Sleeping Beauty

The Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

By Stuart Paterson

A variation on the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty, by the 'master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

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Sleep Deprivation Chamber

Sleep Deprivation Chamber

By Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy

A gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience of twentieth-century America.

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The Slaves of Solitude

The Slaves of Solitude (stage version)

By Patrick Hamilton Adapted by Nicholas Wright

A fascinating blend of dark hilarity and melancholy, woven from Patrick Hamilton’s much-loved story about an improbable heroine in wartime Britain.

Slave Ubu

Slave Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

The 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
    Slave Play

    Slave Play

    By Jeremy O. Harris

    A play that rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America.

    Slave Play

    Slave Play (West End edition)

    By Jeremy O. Harris

    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.

    Skyscraper Lullaby

    Skyscraper Lullaby

    By James Fritz

    A 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.

    Skunk

    Skunk

    By Zawe Ashton

    A 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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