Science Fiction plays

A daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism.

Coincidences, omens and vision collide with political reality in this epic new play by the award-winning Mike Bartlett.

A surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live – and to die.

A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams – a love-letter to British sci-fi television.

A suspenseful, heart-wrenching yet hopeful stage drama about saying what you mean, and saying goodbye. Premiered at Bristol Old Vic in 2025.

An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.

One of the greatest horror stories of all time, in a stage adaptation that sticks closely to Mary Shelley's original novel.

An explosively funny comedy that takes a closer look at the lengths to which people will go to defy biology – and at the moral compass of an industry that trades on fear and hope.

A disturbing but compassionate vision of our potential digital future, and what it might mean for 'life' as we know it.

A play for young people (age five and up) to watch, read and perform, about one confused alien, two brave kids and a busted spaceship.

A razor-sharp sci-fi comedy-drama about sex and relationships, winner of the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work at VAULT Festival, London.

Winner of the 2016 Theatre503 Playwriting Award, Andrew Thompson's debut play is about the adventures of three extraordinary women spanning 80 years, against the backdrop of humanity’s journey to the stars.

A play about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

From one of the UK's most influential playwrights - a fast moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

A brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece that places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.

A sci-fi gothic horror exploring what it means to be human, from Kandinsky Theatre Company. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2025.

A fascinating meditation on human cloning, personal identity and the conflicting claims of nature and nurture.

A play exploring what it means to be true to yourself in the face of unstoppable change, from the writer of Standing at the Sky's Edge. Premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2025.

A captivating, darkly comic play that questions what it means to be human.

A fearless examination of the future of sex, and a fascinating vision of where humanity could be heading next.

An action-packed play for young performers and audiences, bursting with songs and imagination, celebrating curiosity, resilience and exploration. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by young people.

A daring theatrical exploration of the intersection of race, capitalism and performance, by slam poet turned playwright Dave Harris.

A fast-paced, wise-cracking, riotous play, loosely based on H.G. Wells's masterpiece, that zips from the nineteenth century to the end of the world, and (with any luck) back again.

A searing play set in a near-future world, where those responsible for the climate emergency are being judged by a younger generation.