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A father and son wait in a new 'self-harming unit'. As the clock ticks by, the father begins to pour out his guilt, anger and concern to his son. This short play was first staged at the Tron Theatre, in 2006.

A comedy drama about an all-female theatre company touring Britain during the darkest days of World War Two, written by the well-known actress and premiered in the West End. While the men are fighting Hitler and the bombs are falling on London, a 'girls only' theatre company sets out in a battered...

On 15 October 2011 Occupy London makes camp outside St Paul's Cathedral. On 21 October 2011 a building that had kept open through floods, the Blitz and terrorist threats closes its doors. On 28 October City of London initiates legal action against Occupy to begin removing them from outside the Cathedral... Steve...

A divisive left-wing leader at the helm of the Labour Party. A Conservative prime minister battling with her cabinet. An identity crisis on a national scale. This is Britain 1981. One Sunday morning, four prominent Labour politicians – Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David...

An explosive, topical drama from one of the UK's top political playwrights. It's 16th April 2010, the day after the UK's first ever televised prime ministerial debate. Stranded in Malaga Airport by a volcanic ash-cloud, a Labour special adviser, a Lib Dem staffer and a Tory candidate consider...

A darkly comic, claustrophobic tale of voyeurism and sexual politics. In an apartment somewhere, May and Caitlin are on a mission to take back the looking. Up here, away from the prying, away from the eyes, they watch over the girls. They could take over the world if they wanted to… but they...

For over a decade Margaret Thatcher met the Queen for a weekly audience. With all her previous Prime Ministers the Queen enjoyed a fairly informal relationship, but with Mrs Thatcher, things were different. Handbagged speculates on the relationship between these two very powerful and private women. This...

Adam is single. He doesn’t like it. He misses Holly. He deserves Holly. Doesn’t he? A brutal one-man play about modern love and old-fashioned entitlement, Camilla Whitehill’s Mr Incredible was produced at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Longsight Theatre, following its preview run...

A once close-knit family of four is reunited after a long period of estrangement. This time, this time, it must go right. In this touching and comic drama, Stephanie Jacob delves into the turmoil, love and compromises of kinship. Again resets the clock on one family’s history as Tom and Louise...

An extraordinary and disturbing play about post-Communist Russia by a young Siberian-born writer. Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright Anti-Booker Prize, Moscow In a faceless city in the depths of present-day Russia a young boy dies. Women in the street are drunk, fight...

Shaun and Dent grew up best friends on the same council estate in Skelmersdale. Dent left, full of ambition, but ten years later she’s back. Can Shaun convince her that Skem is an inheritance better than any house? Jackie's Hagan's Cosmic Scallies is a witty and touching play about class,...

Hadia is an independent woman in Cairo. Gasir is a painfully awkward lab assistant with attachment issues over his dead mother. Is he really her knight in shining armour? Egyptian Products by Egyptian writer Laila Soliman, is taken from Plays from the Arab World, a collection of five extraordinary...

What is the Custom of Your Grief? by Timberlake Wertenbaker features an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan. The play is taken from Women Centre Stage; a collection of eight short plays, commissioned and...

From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book – packed with over 200 individual games – is perfect for teachers, playgroup leaders and drama facilitators who want to inspire and entertain children, aged 3 and up, with vibrant and engaging drama experiences. The...