Head Over Heels (Young)

This raucous and heartbreaking contemporary comedy addresses the growing social phenomenon known as ‘Silver Splitters’. They are Britain’s hottest new demographic trend – retired divorcees!

Sheila's Island

Bonfire night 2019, Sheila, Denise, Julie, and Fay are Team C in Pennine Mineral Water Ltd.’s annual outward-bound team-building weekend. Somehow, Sheila has been nominated team leader, and, using her cryptic crossword solving skills, has unwittingly stranded her team on an island in the Lake District.

The Watsons

Based on Jane Austen's incomplete novel, this sparklingly witty play looks under her bonnet and asks: What can characters do when their author abandons them?

Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial

Edited from seven sensational days of High Court transcripts, witness the case of Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney unfold in their own words.

A Daughter's A Daughter

Agatha Christie’s domestic drama is an intense personal portrait of family ties in two acts.

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking drama, a searing and timeless portrait of a family on Chicago's South Side, is an American classic.

Agnes of God

In this taut, compelling three-character drama, a court-appointed psychiatrist must assess the sanity of a novice accused of murdering her newborn.

Bad Jews

A fierce, biting comedy about family, faith, and what you choose to believe, when you're chosen. 

Bothered and Bewildered

This comedy-drama about one woman’s struggle with Alzheimer’s follows Irene and her daughters, Louise and Beth, as the girls lose their mum in spirit but not in body.

Calendar Girls

Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund.

Collapse

In Collapse, Hannah tries desperately to hold the façade of her perfect life together, even as her husband, David, mysteriously calls in sick to work...

Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties

Jen Silverman's hilarious play, which The New York Times called “a fult-tilt lesbian/bi-curious/genderqueer/Shakespearean comedy for everyone," explores anger, sex, love and the “thea-tah” through the the experiences of five women named Betty.

Dance Nation

Finalist, 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!

Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. 

Drop Dead!

A cast of has-been actors plan to revive their careers in “Drop Dead!,” a potboiler murder mystery directed by “Wonder Child of the Broadway Stage” Victor Le Pewe (a psychotic, eye-twitching megalomaniac). But when the murders and mysteries exceed those in the script, the thespians must save the show, their careers and their lives!

Electra (Payne)

When a young Electra’s father is murdered by her mother, her world changes irrevocably. Ten years on, bound by grief and unwilling to forgive, Electra surrenders to an all-consuming desire for revenge that propels her towards a bloody and terrifying conclusion. This is a haunting new version by Nick Payne of Sophocles’ tragic masterpiece, Electra.

Eurydice

Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.

Flies

Award-winning writer Charlie Josephine (I, Joan, The Globe) radically responds to William Golding’s classic Lord of the Flies in their new piece Flies – A powerful and contemporary allegory on consent and the fetishisation of the female body.

For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday

A loving look at a family's view of death, life and the allure of never growing up.

Geek!

Teenage outcasts Dayna and Honey face pissed-off Pikachus, steam punk armies, stood-up Sailor Moons and rollerblading monsters at an Inferno-esque anime convention where the fans, the otakus and the geeks prowl.

GirlPlay

Lucy is average, awkward and unassuming. And, when it comes to sex, what she lacks in experience, she makes up for in curiosity. That’s all set to change. On a night of firsts, she opens the door to a world of relationships and sex that she had only ever dreamt about. But is the reality all she had hoped it would be? GirlPlay is an exploration of love and sex spun out in slam.

Grief

War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin.

Hoard

Rafi and Ami’s younger sister, Bili, is coming round for dinner — and for the first time, she’s bringing her boyfriend, Brian. But then, without any warning, their mother Wura arrives. The evening takes a turn that throws up old and new questions, not least: Why doesn’t Wura know that Brian even exists?

Hoard is the story of one close-knit Nigerian family and old hurts that resurface over the course of one evening.

Home, I'm Darling

Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn't as easy as it looks... Home, I'm Darling is Laura Wade's new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.

In the Next Room or the vibrator play

Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat “hysterical” women (and some men), this revelatory comedy centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household.

King Liz

Sports agent Liz Rico has money and an elite client roster but a woman in a man’s industry has to fight to stay on top.

Lost in Yonkers

Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning dramedy beautifully captures the humour, conflict and heartbreak of a Jewish family living in Yonkers in 1942.

Made in India

A thrilling play about birth and motherhood in a brave new world

Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood

A gender-bending, patriarchy-smashing, hilarious new take on the classic tale.

Mary Jane

As Mary Jane navigates both the mundane and the unfathomable realities of caring for Alex, her chronically ill young son, she finds herself building a community of women from many walks of life. 

Men Should Weep

Written for Glasgow Unity in 1947, this extraordinarily moving play of women surviving in the east end of Glasgow of the 1930s was revived by 7:84 Company to tremendous critical acclaim.

Milk Like Sugar

“Kirsten Greenidge's fast-talking, victim-taking New York debut" - Entertainment Weekly

Mother Courage and Her Children (Bentley, trans.)

This German play was written in 1939 and was first produced in Zurich in 1941. In America, it was published in English right away (1941, by New Directions) but did not reach Broadway till 1963 – in a memorable production directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Anne Bancroft. It had, of course, by…

Mother Courage and Her Children (Hall)

For years through the terrible Thirty Years War Mother Courage has followed the'swedish armies with her mobile canteen, and her three children (each by a different man). Life during war is reduced simply to a series of business transactions: soldiers…

Mother Courage and Her Children (Hare, trans.)

“A superb version that bristles with paradoxes, irony and skepticism.” – Independent on Sunday

Mother Courage and Her Children (Hofmann)

For years through the terrible Thirty Years War Mother Courage has followed the Swedish armies with her mobile canteen, and her three children (each by a different man). Life during war is reduced simply to a series of business transactions: soldiers…

Mother Courage and Her Children (Manheim, trans.)

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Mother Courage And Her Children (Tr. Kureishi)

A lone woman, Anna Fierling, tries to achieve the irreconcilable aims of making money and keeping her family alive during the nightmare of the Thirty Years War. 

Mother Courage And Her Children (Tr. MacDonald)

A lone woman, Anna Fierling, tries to achieve the irreconcilable aims of making money and keeping her family alive during the nightmare of the Thirty Years War. 

Mother Courage And Her Children (Tr. Watson)

A lone woman, Anna Fierling, tries to achieve the irreconcilable aims of making money and keeping her family alive during the nightmare of the Thirty Years War. 

Mother Courage and Her Children (Willett, trans.)

Brecht follows Mother Courage and her children through twelve years of the holy war of the early seventeenth century through Sweden, Poland, Finland, Bavaria, and Italy. Mother Courage's first son is a dolt, but he makes a dashing soldier and plunderer. Her second son is honest, and he meets an earl…

Mother of the Maid

This riveting play is the story of Joan of Arc’s mother – a sensible, hardworking, God-fearing peasant woman whose faith is upended as she deals with the baffling journey of her odd and extraordinary daughter.

Mrs Klein

Seen in London at the National and Globe theatres in 1988 starring Gillian Barge, Francesca Annis and Zoí‚ Wanamaker, this powerful drama centres on an episode in the life of controversial child-psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. Because of the death of he…

My Mother Said I Never Should

This award winning play is about four generations of women growing up in England during this century.

Playhouse Creatures

"Flesh and blood heroines... move and inspire... a few more female role models stamped firmly on your heart." - Time Out

Porcelain

This fascinating new play by Margaret Perry, which premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2018, weaves past and present, myth and fact to explore the parallel stories of two Irish women.

Shakespeare in Love

Based on the Academy Award-winning movie, this enchanting, hilarious, romantic stage play reimagines William Shakespeare's creative process – and explores his inspiration – as he writes Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare's Sister

"What would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say...?" Virginia Woolf

Shebeen

It’s a hot and humid summer in 1958 St Ann’s, Nottingham. Tempers are flaring and Teddy Boys are on the march. Jamaican couple Pearl and George are helping Caribbean migrants to cut loose by hosting a forbidden party at their shebeen.

Squirrel Girl Goes to College: A Squirrel Girl Play (Marvel Spotli...

Doreen Green secretly possesses the powers of squirrel…and girl! She uses her amazing abilities to fight crime and be as awesome as possible You know her as the Unbeatable SQUIRREL GIRL!

Stage Kiss (Ruhl)

Art imitates Life. Life imitates Art. When two actors with a history are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgotten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch with reality as the story onstage follows them offstage.

Steel Magnolias

Hilarious and touching, this play for six women is set in a beauty parlour in Louisiana. 

Still Alice

Alice Howland is a university professor at the height of her career when she is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. 

Stitchers

"Nothing can go missing. No wool, no kits. Especially no needles."

Lady Anne Tree – one of the most aristocratic women in England – spent her life in prisons. As a visitor, she saw first-hand the aggression, low self-esteem, and high reoffending rates among the most hardened criminals.

The Agitators

The Agitators tells of the enduring but tempestuous friendship of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Great allies? Yes. And at times, great adversaries.

The Boadicea of Britannia Street

In this funny and touching play about female friendship, four very different women in a local writers’ group discover their own strength as they create and perform a play about Boadicea, an ancient East Anglican queen and feminist icon.

The Cat's Mother

Ciara’s younger sister, Sinead, arrives at her door on Friday evening all set for what Ciara thinks will be a weekend of respite from caring for their mother, Eileen. However, unbeknownst to Ciara, Sinead has alternative ideas about how the weekend will pan out. And it is not what Ciara expected…

The Deep Blue Sea

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.

The Gut Girls

Set in the gutting sheds of the Cattle Market in late Victorian England, this incisive drama shows working women at the bottom of the heap. When socially conscious “do-gooders” seek to make their unseemly work illegal, the “gut girls” are forced to other seek options.

The Killing of Sister George

A scathing examination of the public and private lives of so-called "cultural icons". "Sister George" is a beloved character on a popular BBC soap opera, a cheerful nurse who bicycles about the countryside singing hymns and doing good. In private life, June Buckridge the actress, is a swaggering, f…

The Memory of Water

In The Memory of Water, three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past converge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of family relationships.

Please note: available in two editions: in this single play Student Edition, which features the standard text and also study notes and introductory material, or as a standard text edition (exactly the same text as the single play student edition) in a two play volume with Five Kinds of Silence.

The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies

The Oldest Boy is a richly emotional journey filled with music, dance, puppetry, ritual, and laughter — Sarah Ruhl at her imaginative best. A meditation on attachment and unconditional love, the play asks us to believe in a world in which sometimes the youngest children are also the oldest and wisest teachers.

The Regina Monologues

“Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived…”

The Skin of Our Teeth

Combining farce, burlesque and satire, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play depicts an Everyman family as it narrowly escapes one end-of-the-world disaster after another, from the Ice Age to flood to war.

The Worst Witch

Mildred Hubble is an ordinary girl who found herself in an extraordinary place: a school for witches. Now in her final year at Miss Cackle’s Academy, accident prone Mildred and her fellow pupils are about to embark on their biggest adventure yet…

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill's hilarious, groundbreaking, gritty play about the fictional “Top Girls” employment agency begins with a time-warped luncheon attended by women in legend or history offering their perspectives on maternity and ambition.

Ugly Lies the Bone

In Lindsey Ferrentino's honest, theatrical and compelling drama, a wounded war veteran uses virtual reality game therapy to build a breathtaking new world where she can escape her pain.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams' explosive and groundbreaking drama ranks as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.