Richard Bean: 31 books

Pub Quiz Is Life: ‘A despairing piece about modern Britain with uniformly delightful performances.’ – The Telegraph Pitcairn: ‘Bean is nothing if not prolific and equally bold in his choice of subject matter.’ – The Stage Great Britain: ‘Blessedly funny....

‘The Mentalists confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguiling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart.’ Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph on The Mentalists ‘An instant modern classic.’ Kate...

Back to the arid summer of 1976 and the Hull prisoners are rioting. Prisoner Singe is on the roof because he wants to distance himself from the trouble. He should be going home in two months. Award-winning writer Richard Bean brings on a handful of disparate prisoners and in the distant council flats is a girl, the forthright Rachel Helen, for young Yebsley to fancy.

Four plays by Richard Bean with an introduction by Chris Campbell. Includes: Toast, Mr England, Smack Family Robinson and Honeymoon Suite.

Four plays by Richard Bean with an introduction by Chris Campbell. Includes: Harvest, In the Club, The English Game and Up on Roof.

Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Theatre Play 2011 Young New Yorker Michael Doyle decides to live up to his Irish heritage by joining the IRA. He’s recruited by Costello, the charismatic ‘Big Fellah’, who wants to use Doyle’s brownstone apartment in The Bronx as a safe...

‘I'm a scientist. I don't 'believe' in anything.’ The study of climate science is the cool degree at the university where Dr Diane Cassell is a lead academic in Earth Sciences. At odds with the orthodoxy over the causes of climate change, she finds herself increasingly vilified and is forced...

England People Very Nice ‘A very funny but outrageous comedy…makes you laugh then wonder whether you should have.’ Financial Times The Big Fellah ‘Bean’s play is very funny, full of sharp contrasts between grim hilarity and gut-wrenching reversals.’ The Stage (Shortlisted for the Writers’...

‘… put your hands together for Sheffield’s very own, born down the Eccy Road, in S11, he’s in heaven, he’s in the second round, he’s in his own town, not wearing a dressing gown, he’s the son of his folks, it’s Dylan Spokes!’ Dylan isn’t your typical snooker player. He’s...

Richard Bean’s fast and furious new play is an narchic and foulmouthed satire about the press, the police and the political establishment. Paige Britain is the ambitious young news editor of The Free Press, a tabloid newspaper locked in a never-ending battle for more readers.

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancee’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed...

‘Fucking Frogs! My grandfather didn’t die in the English Civil War so’s half the population of France could come over here and live off the soup!’ A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the...

‘It is as if we find ourselves at the beginning of time...’ It’s 1789. Ideas of revolution and democracy are in the air. In the South Pacific, Fletcher Christian overthrows Captain Bligh in the famous mutiny on The Bounty. With the ship’s crew and their Tahitian lovers...

I've wasted the whole of my life playing this game. It's claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain. I'm not even sure I like it anymore... The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability. As they gather on a sunny...