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Lifers
A darkly funny and unflinchingly honest stage play that challenges what we think we know about crime, punishment and redemption. Premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2025.
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Peter Pan
An enchanting adaptation of J.M. Barrie's children's classic, with songs by Vikki Stone. Premiered at Rose Theatre, Kingston.
€ 14,95 -
Girls Like That
An urgent and explosive play that explores of the pressures on young people today in the wake of advancing technology.
€ 14,95 -
National Theatre Connections 2014
Plays for Young People: Same; Horizon; The Wardrobe; Heritage; A Letter to Lacey; A Shop Selling Speech; Angels; Hearts; Pronoun; TomorrowAnthony Banks (editor) is Associate Director for the National Theatre Discover Programme, where he commissions scripts for the Connections seasons, the Primary Theatre programme and Shakespeare Schools Festival, and curates a variety of projects and events for lifelong learning. Deborah Bruce, a theatre director for over twenty years, has in more recent years embarked on a writing career. Her first stage play, Godchild, was written in 2010, while her 2012 play, The Distance, earned her a place as a finalist in the 2012/13 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is currently under commission to the National Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre, London.Matt Hartley won the inaugural Bruntwood Award for his play Sixty Five Miles (2007), which was produced by Paines Plough and Hull Truck. He was also a member of the Paines Plough/Channel 4 Future Perfect Scheme, before going on in 2012 to become writer on attachment at the Royal Court, London. Currently under commission by the RSC, his previous theatre includes Punch, The Bee, Microcosm, Burning Cars and Sentenced.Sam Holcroft is currently Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio, London, having been Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2009-10. She also won the 2009 Tom Erhardt Award for new writers. Theatre plays include Edgar and Annabel, Dancing Bears, While You Lie, Pink, Vanya, and Cockroach.Dafydd James is an award-winning writer, composer and performer. His works include Driving Home for Christmas, Peter Pan, Llwyth, The Village Social and My Name is Sue. Catherine Johnson's work for stage and television includes the script for the musical Mamma Mia! and screenplay for the film, Rag Doll (Bristol Old Vic - winner BOV/HTV Playwriting Award, 1988), Dead Sheep (Bush), Little Baby Nothing (Bush Theatre), among many others. In 2007, she instituted The Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play.Sabrina Mahfouz is a poet, prose writer and playwright. Her play That Boy was performed at the Soho Theatre in 2010 and won a Westminster Prize for New Playwrights. Since then, she has won a UK Young Artists Award (2011) for poetry; an IdeasTap Innovator Award for theatre and one for poetry; and she won a place on the Old Vic’s TS Eliot Exchange 2011 to New York. She is currently Creative in Residence for Theatre & Poetry at The Hospital Club and she will be the 2012 Leverhulme Trust Associate Playwright at the Bush Theatre. Her recent solo show about a young stripper, Dry Ice, won widespread critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011. Sabrina Mahfouz has been part of the writers programmes at the Royal Opera House and the Royal Court, as well a playwright-on-attachment with Tamasha.Pauline McLynn is an actor and author. Perhaps best-known for her role as Mrs Doyle in the sitcom Father Ted and Libby Croker in Shameless, she is also a prolific writer. Her novels include Something for the Weekend; Better Than a Rest; Right on Time; The Woman on the Bus and Summer in the City.Luke Norris is a playwright an actor. His work has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Royal Court. His play Goodbye to All That premiered at the Royal Court Young Writer's Festival in 2012. Evan Placey is an award-winning playwright. His play Girls Like That premiered in summer 2013 at Birmingham Rep, Theatre Royal Plymouth, and West Yorkshire Playhouse. Mother of Him, his debut full-length play, won the King’s Cross Award for New Writing, Canada’s RBC National Playwriting Competition, and the Samuel French Canadian Play Contest, and was shortlisted for the Meyer Whitworth Award and the Rod Hall Memorial Award. It was produced at the Courtyard Theatre in London. Other plays include Banana Boys, Suicide(s) in Vegas, Holloway Jones, Scarberia, and How Was it for You?Simon Vinnicombe was a Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre. Previous plays produced at the Finborough Theatre include Cradle Me and Year 10. He won a Peggy Ramsay Pearson Award in 2010 and was a member of the BBC Continuing Drama Writers Academy. Theatre includes Untitled (Brit School commission), Wisdom (Manhattan Theatre Club), Turf (Bush Theatre), The Old Vic 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic), A Night with the Apathists (Union Theatre) and Wilde Tales (Southwark Playhouse). Radio includes Mary Cherry and Hard Road (both for BBC Radio 4).
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Mother of Him
Winner! 2011 Samuel French Canadian Play Contest Winner! King's Cross Award for New Writing (UK) Winner! Tarragon Theatre's RBC Under 30 National Playwriting Competition (Canada) "If you were looking at us, you might have even thought we were friends. Old friends. If my son hadn't raped her daughter." It could be a morning like any other as Brenda cooks breakfast for her two sons...But eight year-old Jason's refusing to go to school and teenager Matthew is under house arrest upstairs. And Brenda's face is splashed across the cover of every newspaper. For Matthew has committed a horrible crime, and as Brenda fights for him to be sentenced as a child, she learns it's the laws inside the house that matter most: boys can become men, and a mother can at once become victim and monster. How far does a mother's love go, and at what cost to herself?
€ 14,95 -
Consensual
An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you.
€ 16,50 -
Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers
Four urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing young people today.
€ 26,50 -
Pronoun
A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean - commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK.
€ 14,95 -
Jekyll & Hyde
A radical re-imagining by playwright Evan Placey of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, written for the National Youth Theatre.
€ 14,95