A smart, witty new musical by Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth about truth, celebrity and public outrage. A shocking crime divides the nation. Fingers are pointed, sides are drawn, facts are hard to co
A practical, and inspiring guide to using puppetry in theatre - the perfect entry point for anyone looking to use puppets in their productions, to explore what puppets can do, or to develop their pupp
It's now 50 years since The Night of the Barricades in Paris (10-11 May 1968), when thousands of students protested and built barricades against the police, leading to hundreds of arrests and student
An inspiring and interactive workbook to help you develop skills for longform improvisation, by one of the UK's top improv performers and teachers. Ideal for improvisers at any level. Invaluable to an
Remember the moment you became an adult? Or did you miss it? Adults are the kids that survive school right? And what if some kids don't? Plastic is a charged, poetic, unflinchingly honest new play abo
A new edition of the acclaimed play by the award-winning James Fritz. Written for the National Youth Theatre. The Fall asks how much can a younger generation, dispossessed and disenfranchised, truly
A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys. Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, The Clink, A Going Concern, and Jeffreys' smash-hit, The Libertine. Rounding off the volume a
A new play by Nessa Muthy. Welcome to a world where your partner can arrive by special delivery, you can replace your ex with a replica, or supplement your waning love life with regular updates. It co
A witty and touching new play about class, friendship and absence, set in the forgotten town of Skelmersdale.Shaun and Dent grew up best friends on the same council estate in Skem. Dent left, full of
Dickens' timeless classic, brought to life in a joyous new adaptation by the writer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. On Christmas Eve, a cold-hearted miser is transported to worlds past, present,
Somalia Seaton's Red is an unflinching and bold exploration of the internal lives of young women. It is part of Platform. Aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre. Platform comprises big-cast p
Written for the National Youth Theatre, and first performed by the company at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End in 2017, Jekyll & Hyde offers a full range of parts for schools and youth-theatre
It’s May 1997. Tony Blair has won the election and Katrina and the Waves have won Eurovision. Channel 5 is a month old. No one knows who Harry Potter is. Britain is the coolest place in the world.At t
Ellida, the lighthouse-keeper’s daughter, is trapped in her marriage and longs for the sea. When a former lover returns from years of absence, she is forced to decide between freedom and the new life
Yonni is a seventeen-year-old gay Jewish kid. It’s the last day of term and he’s avoiding everything. The only person he wants to be around, think about, be about... is Adam.And as his nig
”Whom shall I believe? And who shall be judge?’”The nation that receives Mary, Queen of Scots has just outlawed her church and its practices. Its leader is the radical cleric and protestant reformer,
One Tuesday morning, Isabelle packs her lunch box into her pannier, kisses her young daughter goodbye, and sets off on her bike through Hackney. What happens along the way is at once shocking, inconce
Midsummer's Eve, Sweden. A night when the sun doesn't set. A night of drinking and dancing. A night to break the rules. When Julie finds herself alone on her father's estate, she throws caution to the
The Retreat is a brilliant new comedy drama written by Sam Bain, the BAFTA award-winning co-writer and co-creator of Peep Show, Fresh Meat and Four Lions.
A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children. Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian. As a yo
1943, Henley-on-Thames. The war forces Miss Roach to flee London for the Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house, which is as grey and lonely as its residents. From the safety of these new quarters, her war
In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English, and the many levels on which we can appreciate t
AD 61, Britannia. On the furthest outreaches of the Roman Empire – at the very edge of the known world – rebellion is brewing. The King of the Iceni has died and his widow Boudica has tried to claim h
The present day. A residential street in South East London. The house where reclusive siblings Peppy and Daniel were born is now stuffed full of everything they have ever owned. This hoard, their ecce
1702. William III is on the throne and England is on the verge of war. Princess Anne is soon to become Queen, and her advisors vie for influence over the future monarch. Who can Anne turn to when even
Destruction never approaches weapon in hand. It comes slyly, on tiptoe, making you see bad in good and good in bad.The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel
Warning: Contains dancing, chocolate cake and an epic car chase. Molly cooks. Molly does the dishes. Molly gets her little brother Joe ready for school. Molly is only twelve, but she doesn’t feel much
Following the success of his book Why Is That So Funny? comes a new book on acting from John Wright. Wright is co-founder and Associate Artist of the acclaimed UK theatre company Told by an Idiot, and
Take a journey across Europe from the dark and sinister Transylvanian mountains to the awkwardly charming seaside town of Whitby, whilst the frantic Van Helsing and his three amateur actors try to sta
Lorca's passionate, lyrical tales of longing and revenge put the spotlight on the rural poor of 1930s Spain and are considered masterpieces of twentieth-century theatre. These plays exhibit Lorca's in
Three flatmates. A single bathroom. And a world of men.Mary's found some porn in their bin, and needs to talk about it. But Jo's in the bath, fantasizing about being someone else. And Celia just wants
Megan, Holly and Ben are definitely not the cool kids. But Megan has a plan. One long summer holiday to change their lives. One sure path to coolness. One amazing transformation, through the power of
A complex portrait of the mechanics of a family through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations.Bob and Fran have worked hard to give thei
In September 2004, a group of terrorists stormed School Number One in Beslan, Russia, taking hundreds of children, their parents and teachers hostage. The ensuing siege lasted three days and left many
A man in his forties and a woman in her twenties meet on a trip to Berlin. Across a fractured timeline where past and present collide, the story of their relationship, their love, and their struggle u
Includes:Testament by Tristan Bernays, Save + Quit by Sophia Leuner, Wretch by Rebecca Walker, This Must Be the Place by Brad Birch and Kenneth Emson, and Maisie Says She Loves Me, a one-man play by J
The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil.The Stone Age didn't end for want of stones.Oil follows the lives of one woman and her daughter in an epic, hurtling collision of empire, history and famil
Jacob doesn’t know why he’s here. He’s been at war for six years, but nobody will tell him why. The Moon is upstairs and he wants so desperately to talk to her, but they just won’t let him. Will she b
A leading playwright of her generation, Lucy Kirkwood is a writer of savagely funny, highly intelligent, and beautifully observed plays that tackle the pressing issues of our times.With an introductio
