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Category: Plays
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I'm Not Being Funny
Piers Black

'I'm not gonna stand up in front of a bunch of strangers and tell stories about you and me.'

Billie's signed them both up for stand-up comedy. Tonight, she and her husband Peter are locking themselves in their living room until they've got it down: a 'tight-five' set that's a guaranteed knock-out.

With the clock ticking and nothing but a baby monitor for an audience, they go delving through their past for material. But as questions about their future are forced to…

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Hilary Mantel Adapted by Alexandra Wood

It's late summer, 1983. Out in the street, the world is waiting to greet Margaret Thatcher as she emerges from hospital after routine surgery. Two people. One window. A gun. When the time comes to pull the trigger, what side of history will you be on?

Foal
Titas Halder

An exhilarating fever dream, Foal is a revenge thriller set in the era of the Sony Walkman; a lyrical, urgent play for one actor about masculinity, compassion and retribution.

Shoelace Chaser
Madelaine Nunn

Smart, self-sufficient and secretly just holding it together, Thea has spent the last two years keeping the secret that she's a carer for her mum. But chasing a university athletics scholarship means leaving her mum behind...

Magic
David Haig

Harry Houdini is the greatest illusionist the world has ever known. Arthur Conan Doyle is the creator of literature's most brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes. When their mutual admiration blossoms into a profound friendship, they discover a shared obsession with spiritualism.

Driftwood
Martina Laird

'dis is my home. De only home I have. My whole life. My history here. And de only future I go have is here.'

September, 1956. As colonial Trinidad marches towards independence, a gentleman's club in downtown Port of Spain is entangled in a different kind of custody battle.

Owned by Englishman Mansion, it promises its guests a comfortable environment in which to relax and indulge. But when the impetuous Diamond drifts in, cutting deals and putting lives at risk, the…

Albatross
Martha Loader

Urgent and explosive, Albatross takes us to the very boundaries of love and devotion in the age of climate catastrophe, asking what we're willing to sacrifice for a better future. 

Impassioned and heartfelt, Stand & Deliver tells the true story of the gallus Greenock girls working at the factory and the battle against injustice that thrust them onto the world stage.

The Fear of 13
Lindsey Ferrentino

Nick's got a story to tell you. About how a routine traffic stop turned into a conviction for murder. About how he spent the next twenty-two years on Death Row. About how he finally petitioned the court, asking not for an appeal – but for his execution date. And about what happened next…

The Waves
Virginia Woolf Adapted by Flora Wilson Brown

A tender, thrilling story about growing up together, Flora Wilson Brown's heart-thumping adaptation of Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece The Waves was first performed at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2026.

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