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Sam Holcroft

Sam Holcroft

Sam Holcroft is a playwright, winner of the Windham Campbell Prize for Literature.

Her plays include: A Mirror (Almeida Theatre, London, 2023; West End, 2024); Rules for Living (National Theatre, London, 2015); The Wardrobe for National Theatre Connections; Edgar & Annabel, part of the Double Feature season in the Paintframe at the National Theatre; Dancing Bears, part of the Charged season for Clean Break at Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival; While You Lie at the Traverse, Edinburgh; Pink, part of the Women, Power and Politics season at the Tricycle; Vanya, adapted from Chekhov, at The Gate; and Cockroach, co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and Traverse (nominated for Best New Play 2008, by the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award, 2009).

In 2013, she wrote The House Taken Over, a libretto for opera, adapted from Cortázar, for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Académie Européenne de Musique. She received the Tom Erhardt Award in 2009, was the Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Traverse Theatre, 2009–10, and the Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio from 2013–14. In 2014, she received a Windham Campbell Prize for Literature in the drama category.

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Women, Power and Politics: Now

Women, Power and Politics: Now

Five plays

By various

A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.

While You Lie

While You Lie

By Sam Holcroft

A blistering play about our need for honesty in relationships and how it can sometimes bring about their downfall.

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The Wardrobe

The Wardrobe

By Sam Holcroft

A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival.

Rules for Living

Rules for Living

By Sam Holcroft

A theatrically playful, dark comedy about the unwritten rules we follow in our lives.

Pink

Pink

By Sam Holcroft

A short play about a millionaire businesswoman confronted by an unexpected visitor.

A Mirror

A Mirror

By Sam Holcroft

Sam Holcroft's elusive and explosive new play about censorship, authorship and free speech, premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in August 2023, directed by Jeremy Herrin.

Edgar & Annabel

Edgar & Annabel

By Sam Holcroft

An Orwellian dystopian fable about a group of freedom fighters attempting to stand up to a repressive regime, while being continuously subjected to surveillance.

Double Feature: One

Double Feature: One

By Sam Holcroft and D C Moore

Double Feature brings together – in two volumes of paired short plays – four of the most exciting new voices in UK theatre, in their first commissions for the National Theatre.

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Dancing Bears

Dancing Bears

By Sam Holcroft

A short play laying bare the twisted loyalties and violence in teenage gangs.

Cockroach

Cockroach

By Sam Holcroft

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.

Charged

Charged

Six plays about women, crime and justice

By Chloë Moss, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, E V Crowe, Sam Holcroft and Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female voices in British theatre, exploring the heartbreaking truth about the lives of women in the criminal justice system.