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Category: Plays
Cover Title Author
The Parricide
Diane Stubbings

In a small flat in Russia 1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky grafts out a novel for an unscrupulous publisher. All the time, though, he is haunted by a story from his past

Small Island
Andrea Levy Adapted by Helen Edmundson

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.

Far Gone
John Rwothomack

Far Gone is a profoundly moving play for one actor which tells the story of a young boy's journey from childhood innocence to child soldier, seen through the eyes of those that love him – and those that betray him.

My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell Adapted by Janys Chambers

It's 1935, and an eccentric English family – four children, their widowed mother, and Roger the dog – arrives on the sun-soaked shores of Corfu to start a new life. For eleven-year-old Gerry Durrell, Corfu's exotic fauna inspires a life-long fascination with the animal kingdom. 

Samskara
Lanre Malaolu

Inspired by real-life testimony, four generations of black men are trying to understand themselves in a world which tells them they have to be strong.

Metamorphoses
Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas, Sabrina Mahfouz Original author Ovid

The myths of Metamorphoses reimagined for our world by three leading British playwrights, featuring anarchy, shape-shifting and a burning chariot of fire.

Based on a true story: Summer, 1827. In a red barn in Suffolk, Maria Marten awaits her lover. A year later, hidden in a grain sack under the floor of the barn, Maria's body is found, barely identifiable - and the manhunt begins.

1943. Four months into the Nazi occupation of Tunisia. You're imprisoned in a labour camp. You're dying of thirst, you miss your wife, and your best friend just pissed on your face. How could things possibly get any worse?

Heavy Weather
Lizzie Nunnery

All Mona sees is the Earth falling apart, but no one really seems to care. Amidst the chaos of competing and contradictory voices, she sets off on a kaleidoscopic journey to find solutions for the planet

Rockets and Blue Lights
Winsome Pinnock

A retelling of British history through the prism of slave trade — who owns Britain's past, and who has the right to tell its stories? Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award.

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