Plays, Playscripts

Two strangers a man and a woman board a San Francisco BART train at 4:30 a.m. They're alone in the car each is married both are doing theNew Yo...

This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All In The Timing...

If they expect me to run and hide, eat myself up, they can think again. Can’t you see? This is my… call to arms. The inciting incident of my life –...

The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Glo...

In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, e...

“People kept saying there’s no smoke without fire, but it’s not our fire is it khala? it’s like we’re just choking on all the fumes…” Between th...

The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goet...

Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today, Once Be...

For the first time in my life, everything was silent.A memory: award-winning reggae pioneer Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee – hears her radio debut from...

For as long as there is barsaat, you will be my friend. Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh...

'This is the story of how we met, fell in love, and fucked it up. But it's not just our story. It's his, and his and theirs. Maybe it's yours…' Ma...

Three classic Spanish plays, made famous by Shakespeare and Webster Two of the most famous and successful playwrights of Spain's Golden Age of play...

It's called your Christmas scar! If you have a scar from Christmas – you've wrecked the day. It's Sue's tattoo.It’s the 23rd of December and Dave i...

City of the Dead and Ballade Nocturne are two plays by Gao Xingjian, the Nobel laureate, which create new modes of theatrical presentation by exper...

Speaking Our Selves brings together eight remarkable plays by women writers from the under-represented African countries of Tanzania, Mozambique, E...

Speaking Our Selves brings together eight remarkable plays by women writers from the under-represented African countries of Tanzania, Mozambique, E...

Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre is the first wide-ranging collection of scholarly articles to apply feminist pe...

This collection contains two plays by Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. ""Escape"" was written in 1989 in the wake of th...

And though you sometimes wish these people weren’t so huge, or that they weren’t even there in the first place, they keep you company somehow. And ...

In the new dawn we were upright. We were tall. We were on two feet. No more horses. That’s what we thought. We are not horses anymore.August 1792. ...

Gao Xingjian is the leading Chinese dramatist of our time. He is also one of the most moving and literary writers for the contemporary stage. His p...

Dramatis personae.This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictiona...

The last work from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, continuing the semi-autobiographical cycle centring on the Tyrone famil...

The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and the Critics Circl...

A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is published in Pengui...

Three plays by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, ter...

A dark fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life, from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce. Three sisters in a r...

It’s club night and the tracks are spinning. Set against a backdrop of precarious lives in urban London, two headliners crossfade between stories o...

A gripping and darkly comic tale of young lives on the edge. The lads have just left their mother's funeral. At the beach, they see something floa...

From a version by Tim Supple From the novel by Rudyard Kipling Mowgli was still a toddler when he was lost in the jungle – his parents feeing the...

Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong. Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and t...

A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past. Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, ...

An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls. Like a painting by Escher...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's ...

Two troubled, disturbing but bleakly funny plays from a leading writer of Channel 4's Shameless and Skins. In Stacy, Rob finds life confusing in a...

Howard Brenton's Lawrence After Arabia explores the afterlife of a legend, when being a hero has become a burden, and the man once celebrated as La...

'I'm going to find out – which of us is right, society or me.' Henrik Ibsen's three great 'problem plays', A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler...

Pulp and other Plays by Tasha Fairbanks is an anthology of plays which were written for the British group Siren Theatre Company, a lesbian theatre ...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan ...

A hugely-acclaimed black comedy exposing the dark side of the Midwestern American family. When the large Weston family is reunited in Oklahoma aft...

Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author. This collection of short plays by one ...

Two powerful expressionist plays from the early career of one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. The Hairy Ape is a nightmarish ...

1989. An Eastern Bloc government on the brink of collapse. As the old regime retreats, former political prisoners join banned writers around the ne...

A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly e...