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Penelope

Penelope

By Enda Walsh

A savage, tragicomic take on the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus.

Penelope Wilton on Isabella

Penelope Wilton on Isabella

Performing Shakespeare

By Penelope Wilton and Julian Curry

Penelope Wilton discusses playing Isabella, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles.

Pennyroyal

Pennyroyal

By Lucy Roslyn

A heartrending play about sisterhood and motherhood; enduring love, and regrets many years in the making.

Pentecost

Pentecost

By David Edgar

A valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. Part of David Edgar's trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe.

The People Next Door

The People Next Door

By Henry Adam

A black comedy about the post-9/11 world and what happens when someone else's global problem becomes your local one.

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People Who Led to My Plays

People Who Led to My Plays

By Adrienne Kennedy

A magical scrapbook of words, pictures and memories, capturing the life of a middle-class black girl growing up in the Midwest in the 1930s and 40s, aspiring to be a writer.

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Perfect Days

Perfect Days

By Liz Lochhead

A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.

Perfect Pie

Perfect Pie

By Judith Thompson

A potent drama set over the course of a single afternoon. A reunion between two long-estranged women brings to light a buried memory and two teenagers' wild secret.

Performing Shakespeare

Performing Shakespeare

Preparation, Rehearsal, Performance

By Oliver Ford Davies

An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare.

Peribanez

Peribanez

By Lope de Vega Adapted by Tanya Ronder

A gripping drama of sex, power and passion from the Spanish Golden Age.

Personal Values

Personal Values

By Chloë Lawrence-Taylor

A perceptive, poignant and witty play about sisterhood and grief. Premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2025.

Persuasion

Persuasion (stage version)

By Jane Austen Adapted by Mark Healy

A faithful yet inventive adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, with a set of Production Notes designed to make it easily stageable.

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Perve

Perve

By Stacey Gregg

An irreverent and unsettling play that interrogates paranoia, ambiguity and innocence in our highly sexualised world.

Pests

Pests

By Vivienne Franzmann

A hard-hitting, claustrophic drama about trying to escape your past.

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Peter Pan

Peter Pan (stage version)

By J.M. Barrie Adapted by Evan Placey and Vikki Stone

An enchanting adaptation of J.M. Barrie's children's classic, with songs by Vikki Stone. Premiered at Rose Theatre, Kingston.

Petrol Jesus Nightmare #5 (In the Time of the Messiah)

Petrol Jesus Nightmare #5 (In the Time of the Messiah)

By Henry Adam

A chilling apocalyptic thriller about the violent consequences of faith and belief, from the author of The People Next Door.

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Phedra

Phedra

By Jean Racine Translated by Julie Rose

Racine's reworking of Euripides' Hippolytus, celebrated for its tragic construction and the richness of its language.

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Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales

Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales (stage version)

Adapted by Philip Wilson Original author Philip Pullman

A deliciously dark version of the Grimm Tales, from master storyteller Philip Pullman.

Phoenix

Phoenix

By Mike Bartlett

A powerful story of fire and destruction, self-deceit and the corrosion of trust.

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    The Piano Lesson

    The Piano Lesson

    By August Wilson

    A powerful exploration of the legacy of slavery in America in a play that focuses on a brother and sister in 1930s Pittsburgh as they argue over whether to sell the family piano, an instrument tainted by the wages of slavery.

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    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Picnic at Hanging Rock (stage version)

    By Joan Lindsay Adapted by Tom Wright

    A chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic novel about the disappearance of three Australian schoolgirls in the summer of 1900.

    Pieces

    Pieces

    By Hywel John

    A modern fable of an idyllic childhood shattered by grief, and the confused, desperate and dangerous attempts we make to learn how to live again.

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    Pig Heart Boy

    Pig Heart Boy (stage version)

    By Malorie Blackman Adapted by Winsome Pinnock

    Malorie Blackman's celebrated novel about a boy in need of a heart transplant, adapted for the stage by Winsome Pinnock. First performed in 2025 at the Unicorn Theatre, London, before touring the UK.

    Pigs and Dogs

    Pigs and Dogs

    By Caryl Churchill

    A short, startling play about Uganda's 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Act and what lies behind it.