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Election time. The Students' Association needs a new President, and Akousa's achingly cool flatmates are certain she is perfect for the position. How can they persuade her, and how much is she willing to compromise? From the author of Gone Too Far!, Playing the Game was first staged at the Traverse Theatre, in 2010 as part of the Women, Power & Politics season.

Back from Iraq, Billy is in no mood for games. But Kevin is not just playing... Anderson wrote and directed his own play as part of the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh's 2005 Festival programme, for which he won the Arches Award for Stage Directors.

A one-man comedy-drama from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris. When you’re a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, it’s tough living up to your family’s expectations. Marc spends his time avoiding his mum, disguising his cannabis plants with fake tomatoes, and bailing out his old man,...

Open, a play by Christopher Adams and Timothy Allsop, is a frank, refreshing romance that draws on interviews, conversation and private correspondence to explore the authors' real-life open marriage. It was first performed as part of the 2019 VAULT Festival, London. Also available in the collection Plays from VAULT 4.

An anthology of seven of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2019, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival. 3 Billion Seconds by Maud Dromgoole is a hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life. Alcatraz...

Young men are dying and everyone assumes they’re just casualties of London’s chemsex scene. Everyone, that is, but Anthony, who is determined to investigate. Christopher Adams' play Tumulus is a chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath. It was first...

A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future. Lucy thinks she's finally cracked the love thing. Joe, her handsome American boyfriend, is moving to London. So how come he seems to be heading for the emergency exit? Lucy's best friend Scarlet is on an endless carousel...

Two unflinching plays from exciting new writer and performer, Izzy Tennyson. Grotty is a dark and savage exploration of the London lesbian scene. A couple of little sad old basements that drip with sweat and piss, with second-hand noise pulsating from some gay-boy night upstairs. The women...

An unflinching play from exciting new writer and performer, Izzy Tennyson. Grotty is a dark and savage exploration of the London lesbian scene. A couple of little sad old basements that drip with sweat and piss, with second-hand noise pulsating from some gay-boy night upstairs. The women sit...

Frankie’s dead. And no one’s quite sure why. But the boys won’t talk about it. They can’t. There are some truths that men can’t share. So Here We Are is a play about what can happen when nothing happens, a compassionate look at young lives cut short and a touching portrait of childhood...

Three conference organisers and a teenage girl are the sole survivors of a fatal plane crash on a remote tropical island. This hilarious comedy by the writer of Fresh Meat and Plebs premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013.

Mary had a son, now her son is dead, and that is all. But her friend Jenn is hosting a dinner party, just like before, a chance to catch up. No pressure. Nothing big. Just old friends. It would be great to see you. If you’re free. If you’re ready. Darkly funny, and achingly tender, Kat...

A play that challenges our understanding of mythology, and forces us to ask vital questions about military occupation. “And we believe we're helping, we really do. But we've been 'helping' people for thousands of years and the divided land has stayed divided. We're still at war.” acedia:...

A fiercely funny look at the rocky relations between our press and politicians in a world of spin doctors and Leveson Inquiries. Michael is moving into 10 Downing Street and there will be no charm offensives with this Prime Minister, not with a country to run. There's no time for lunches with...