Drama

Elsie, an elderly widow, lives alone and avoids socialising with her neighbours, believing "it doesn't do, to get involved." Then a new couple, Kate and Adrian, move in across the road and their young son Jamie invites Elsie round for tea. Soon the pair...

Four servants sit solemnly in the kitchen of a large Victorian house. Their Mistress has died suddenly and the cook, discovering that the housekeeper and personal maid have stolen some of her jewellery, demands a share. Reluctantly they agree. Then the...

Hitting Town opens with Ralph, a student drop-out from Birmingham University, dropping in unexpectedly on his sister, Clare, in her Leicester bed-sit. Together they decide to "hit the town." But against a background of commercial radio, city-centre...

If it were not for the thoughtfulness of the author who has kindly translated the dialogue of two of the characters into English, the audience would be as confused as the actors, who play a Finn, an Italian and an Englishman - none of whom speak a word...

It is 1941 and "L for Lily" a Lancaster heavy bomber is on her 11th mission. All seven of her crew have their own fears and anxieties.Author: Steve HarperPublisher: Samuel French LtdPublication Date: Aug 05, 2016Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage:...

Leo, a doctor is suffering from depression and tries every therapy to beat the blues. Insight is offered by his mother, sister and his wife who show how depression affects those you love. Blue has won several UK festival awards, including the Working...

Maddie has something important to confess to her husband David, but he is not in the mood to listen. Maddie's desperate attempts to get his attention initially fail and when she finally gets through to him and makes her confession, David's reaction is...

Matt and Ruth are looking forward to a quiet evening at home when their lives are turned upside-down by a visit from 18 year old Freya and her mother, Karen. Freya has discovered that Matt is her biological father, having traced his "donation" to a...

MY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FLOWERS IS BARE STRONG. COS DAT'S WHAT I'M DOING AT COLLEGE. I CAN TALK ABOUT FLOWERS FOREVER. HOWEVER, I SHARE A NAME WITH DESE... ANGELIQUE. Funeral Flowers follows the story of Angelique, a seventeen-year-old whose dreams of being a...

My name is Daffodil Scissors. I haven't got any friends. Not one! Daffodil lives alone with Dad. Dad makes extraordinary hats. The extraordinary hats go on Daffodil's head. Wearing Dad's hats makes everyone at school laugh at Daffodil. How is Daffodil...

Nominated for a CATS Award for Best Play for Children & Young People. A new adaptation of the classic book A Kestrel for a Knave, Kes tells the story of a day in the life of Billy Casper; a 15-year-old boy about to leave school and determined not to end...

Rouse, a Council official, is visiting the theatre run by Mike Pemberton-Hawkesley, and his mission is simple: to save the Council money. His brainwave is to turn the theatre into a storage facility for files; Mike, understandably, is outraged. Mavis...

Set in 1916 in a British casualty clearing station the play tells of a young soldier brought to the hospital having been found critically wounded. Being the only survivor of a platoon serving close to the lines on the Western Front with no hope of...

Sir Fennimore Truscott, a retired Judge, sits under his mulberry tree and 'tries' his next-door-neighbour Tom Marjoriebanks for - allegedly - seducing Truscott's wife Margaret many years earlier.-1 woman, 2 menAuthor: John MortimerPublisher: Samuel...

Story of an English country vicar's wife.Author: Alan BennettPublisher: Samuel French LtdPublication Date: Feb 22, 2016Number of Pages: 30 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/DramaISBN-10: 0573132240ISBN-13: 9780573132247

The light-hearted and entertaining play concerns four elderly actresses passing their days in a Home for Retired Artistes. They bicker and banter, showing the different parts of thier profession. Only Dame Anthea's dresser, Gladys, keeps an observant...

The Middle East. In an attic room a group of terrorists hold a young girl, Naomi, and wait while the Government decides whether or not to pay the ransom. The building is surrounded by troops and there can be no escape for the kidnappers - but still they...

This gentle play, told with warmth and tenderness focuses on Lily who has spent all her married life in the same two-up, two-down council house. Although widowed, her husband Joe is very real to her and Lily's life continues as though he were still alive...

Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose 'heretical' discoveries about the solar...

Based loosely on The Science of Discworld II: the Globe, Lords & Ladies, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Shakespeare Codex is a new Discworld stage adaptation written to commemorate Terry Pratchett's life and works. Discworld's motley band of...

Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? British-Egyptian Sabrina Mahfouz grew up with ambitions of being a spy. She has two passports, speaks two languages and has a cultural understanding of two...

Christopher, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered...

Club toilets have taught me more about sisterhood than any book. Cornered into a flooding toilet cubicle and determined not to be rescued again, Rosie distracts herself with memories of bathroom encounters. Drunken heart-to-hearts by dirty sinks,...

Faith, Hope and Charity is the culmination of a trilogy that began with Beyond Caring and LOVE that goes to the heart of our uncertain times and offers another uncompromising theatrical experience.Author: Alexander ZeldinPublisher: Methuen...

Hello, I thought I'd introduce myself properly. As is polite. An intimate and absurd exploration of wanting to live, wanting to die and what can happen if we sit together with the dark. Caroline reunites with director Alex Swift (Mess, How to Win Against...

I am Yusuf and This Is My Brother is a powerful, poetic exploration of history, memory and different forms of love. 'Before it happened I didn't know those people existed. Now I'm not certain that we do?' January 1948. Palestine. The British Mandate is...

LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE ME. A woman wakes up with a stranger beside her. A student argues with his lover. A single mother fights to feed her baby. A married man flirts with two younger women. And far away, one devastating event...

Of course ? as you've no doubt guessed ? there's a big 'But Then' moment heading this way... It's a sunny, spring day in East London. On a street corner, two teenagers kiss. One of them is Toni. This is her first kiss. It makes her very happy. But...

One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one. In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands. After a hundred years, the family butchers and grocers ? a place for odds and...

Sadie has a one-night stand with the new office temp, Joao, but it develops into something much more serious when Joao reveals he's in love with her. Sadie is flattered but she has a long history of terrible relationships. She wonders if it's even...