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...blackbird hour

...blackbird hour

By babirye bukilwa

A visceral and moving exploration of caring, belonging, and a queer Black woman's attempts to love herself. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2025.

"Daddy": A Melodrama

"Daddy": A Melodrama

By Jeremy O. Harris

A blistering melodrama from Jeremy O. Harris, whose play Slave Play received a record twelve nominations at the 74th Tony Awards.

1972: The Future of Sex

1972: The Future of Sex

By The Wardrobe Ensemble

A devised play about three couples having sex for the first time – and a country on the brink of a sexual awakening.

1984

1984 (stage version)

By George Orwell Adapted by Nick Hern

A bold and powerful dramatisation of George Orwell's classic dystopia, ideal for any school, youth group or amateur company.

2:22 – A Ghost Story

2:22 – A Ghost Story

By Danny Robins

A spine-chilling, funny and scary play from the award-winning writer and broadcaster behind the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist.

3 Billion Seconds

3 Billion Seconds

By Maud Dromgoole

A hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life.

8 Hotels

8 Hotels

By Nicholas Wright

A play about passion, suspicion and revenge, based on true events involving some of the twentieth century's most influential American artists.

A-Typical Rainbow

A-Typical Rainbow

By JJ Green

An uplifting play about the experience of growing up neurodivergent and queer in early 2000s Britain, based on real events from the perspective of the writer and the autistic community.

Abandonment

Abandonment

By Kate Atkinson

A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist.

Abigail

Abigail

By Fiona Doyle

A man in his forties and a woman in her twenties meet on a trip to Berlin. Across a fractured timeline where past and present collide, the story of their relationship, their love and their struggle unravels.

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Abortive

Abortive

By Caryl Churchill

A couple in bed discuss the effect on them of the woman's recent abortion.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
    Ah! Wilderness

    Ah! Wilderness

    By Eugene O'Neill

    An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. A family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War.

    Airsick

    Airsick

    By Emma Frost

    A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.

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    Albion

    Albion

    By Mike Bartlett

    Mike Bartlett's outstanding play, set in the ruins of a garden in rural England.

    All for Love

    All for Love

    By John Dryden

    Dryden's 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.

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    All honey

    All honey

    By Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

    A play about sex, secrets and suspicion, winner of the 2017 Fishamble New Writing Award.

    Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays
      All of Us

      All of Us

      By Francesca Martinez

      A passionate and timely drama that looks at the human cost of abandoning those who struggle to fit in.

      All's Well That Ends Well

      All's Well That Ends Well

      By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

      An edition of Shakespeare's play in the authoritative and accessible Shakespeare Folios series.

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      Alys, Always

      Alys, Always (stage version)

      By Harriet Lane Adapted by Lucinda Coxon

      A psychological thriller, adapted for the stage from Harriet Lane's gripping novel.

      Animal

      Animal

      By Jon Bradfield With Josh Hepple

      A hilarious, challenging and heartbreaking play about a gay, disabled man embarking on a sexual and romantic odyssey.

      ANNA

      ANNA

      By Ella Hickson

      A radical play set in East Berlin in 1968, unfolding with all the tension of a spy thriller and the inexorable revelations of an Ibsen drama.

      Anna Christie

      Anna Christie

      By Eugene O'Neill

      Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.

      Anna Karenina

      Anna Karenina (stage version)

      By Leo Tolstoy Adapted by Helen Edmundson

      Helen Edmundson's celebrated adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's enduring classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love.

      Anne Boleyn

      Anne Boleyn

      By Howard Brenton

      A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history.