Plays, Playscripts

A remote valley. An unspeakable crime. A prominent architect is commissioned to design a memorial to the victims. On the evening of the presentatio...

what if i'm not funny though - what if i go out there and i'm not funnySteve Johnston, guided and inspired by his girlfriend, is a small-time comed...

Ellida, claustrophobic and restless, swims in the sea every day. She loves her husband Dr Wangel but, ten years ago, promised herself to another ma...

- he hadn't forgotten i was there - he just didn't care whether i was there or not - it would've been better him forgetting rather than not caring ...

For Lilly and her mother, going to Indonesia isn't just another holiday. It's an escape and a new start. But when Will takes a gentle ride along th...

-You're having some kind of crisis.-It's called being fifty. You must be having it too.Hilary once protested at Greenham. Now her protests tend to ...

Obsessed with his own salvation, the hermit Paulo dedicates himself to ten years of prayerful penance. When his faith wavers, the ever-watchful Dev...

Oswald, standing in the doorway then, the pipe in his mouth, it was as if I saw his father alive again.Mrs Alving is preparing for the opening of a...

Ben Brown's political thriller takes us behind the doors of Number Ten in May 1940 during three pivotal days in British History when, extraordinari...

This second collection of work by Tom Stoppard contains his radio plays, which complement (and sometimes prefigure) his work for the stage. The vol...

'A dark, elegiac play, studded with brutally and swaggeringly funny jokes.'Sunday Times'A deeply poignant, raffishly comic, emotion-charged study o...

A man is banished in a soldier's hearing. His daughter is left to wander. In a rash moment, Beatriz offers to take the child back to her father, an...

Cruel and Tender'A mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocles's Trachiniae... The approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable ...

In the summer of 1967 Greta Garbo comes to Donegal.Ireland is on the verge of violent change. Two couples are on the verge of parting. A woman trie...

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by s...

At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House. Ten years on and presided over still by the kindly...

On a spring morning in London, eight women, young and old, speak for the continuity of everyday life. Over five choruses, these ordinary inhabitant...

It's a dwindling band; old-fashioned and of a certain age, you can pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns w...

My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful.1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afghan...

Everybody expects the report to say they are a delight. They are very bright. They are pure as light. But they are small dogs, Headmistress. I must...