Play Ideas

A selection of plays we've chosen for students and youth groups

 

Student Plays (full length and short length)

Full length:

Acapulco - Steven Berkoff

Actor - Steven Berkoff

Advice to Iraqi Women - Martin Crimp

After Miss Julie - Patrick Marber

Agamemnon - Steven Berkoff, adapted from Aeschylus

Alone it Stands - John Breen

Amongst Barbarians - Michael Wall

At Break of Day - Noël Greig

Attempts on her Life - Martin Crimp

Baby Doll - Tennessee Williams

Bad Company - Simon Bent

Bash - Neil LaBute

The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh

Bent - Martin Sherman

Birdy - Naomi Wallace

Blue/Orange - Joe Penhall

Blue Remembered Hills - Dennis Potter

The Blue Room - David Hare

The Bow of Ulysses - Steven Berkoff

Brighton Beach Scumbags - Steven Berkoff 

Can't Pay? Won't Pay! - Dario Fo

Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett

Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick - Terry Johnson

Closer - Patrick Marber

Comedians - Trevor Griffiths

Cooking with Elvis - Lee Hall

The Country - Martin Crimp

Cracks - Martin Sherman

Cruel and Tender - Martin Crimp, after Sophocles' Trachiniae

Dahling You Were Marvellous - Steven Berkoff 

Dealer's Choice - Patrick Marber

Dealing with Clair - Martin Crimp

Decadence - Steven Berkoff

Disappeared - Phyllis Nagy

Dog - Steven Berkoff 

Don Juan in Soho - Patrick Marber

East - Steven Berkoff 

Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness - Anthony Neilson

Entertaining Mr Sloane - Joe Orton

The Fall of the House of Usher - Steven Berkoff 

Fallout - Roy Williams 

The False Servant - Pierre Marivaux. New translation by Martin Crimp

Fewer Emergencies - Martin Crimp

Gasping - Ben Elton

Getting Attention - Martin Crimp 

Greek - Steven Berkoff  

Harry's Christmas - Steven Berkoff  

The History Boys - Alan Bennett

I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls - Ade Morris

In the Penal Colony - Adapted from Franz Kafka by Steven Berkoff

The Jewish Wife - Bertolt Brecht. English text by Martin Crimp

Killers - Adam Perna

Kvetch - Steven Berkoff

The Long Road - Shelagh Stephenson

Loot - Joe Orton

Lunch - Steven Berkoff 

The Lying Kind - Anthony Neilson

Massage - Steven Berkoff

Messiah - Steven Berkoff

Metamorphosis - Steven Berkoff, adapted from Franz Kafka

The Misanthrope - Martin Crimp, from Molière

My Mother Said I Never Should - Charlotte Keatley

My Zinc Bed - David Hare

The Night Before Christmas - Anthony Neilson

Normal - Anthony Neilson

Oedipus - Steven Berkoff

Our Boys - Jonathan Lewis

Penetrator - Anthony Neilson

Play with Repeats - Martin Crimp

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice - Jim Cartwright

Ritual in Blood - Steven Berkoff

Road - Jim Cartwright

Rock 'n' Roll - Tom Stoppard

Rope - Patrick Hamilton

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens - Charlotte Mann and Michael Fidler

The Seagull - Anton Chekhov, in a version by Martin Crimp

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ - Sue Townsend

The Secret Love Life of Ophelia - Steven Berkoff

Serious Money - Caryl Churchill. Songs by Ian Dury, Micky Gallacher and Chas Jankel

Sink the Belgrano! - Steven Berkoff

Sturm und Drang - Steven Berkoff

The Sugar Syndrome - Lucy Prebble

Taking Care of Baby - Dennis Kelly

That Face - Polly Stenham

The Treatment - Martin Crimp

The Trial - Stephen Berkoff, adapted from Franz Kafka

Two - Jim Cartwright

Vita and Virginia - Eileen Atkins, adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

West - Steven Berkoff

The Wonderful World of Dissocia - Anthony Neilson

Yellow Moon - David Greig

 

Short length:

Another Moon Called Earth - Tom Stoppard

Carry Me Kate - Rachel Musgrove

Drunk Enough to Say I Love You - Caryl Churchill 

A Gaggle of Saints - Neil LaBute

Half Life - Katy Darby

Iphegenia in Orem - Neil LaBute

Medea Redux - Neil LaBute

Lions and Donkeys - Steve Harper

Open Secrets - Katy Darby

Other People - Geoff Saunders

 

 

Youth Group Plays (full length and short length)

Full length:

Brenda Bly: Teen Detective - Kevin Hammonds

Dark River - Alexa Romanes

The Demon Headmaster - Based on the novel The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross. Book by Paul James. Lyrics by Iain Halstead and Paul James. Music by Eric Angus and Cathy Shostak

The Late Sleepers - Eric Angus and Paul James

Like a Virgin - Gordon Steel

Sparkleshark - Philip Ridley

Virgins - John Retallack

The Wall - D.C. Jackson

Short length:

After Juliet - Sharman MacDonald

Burn - Deborah Gearing

Chatroom - Enda Walsh

Citizenship - Mark Ravenhill

The Queen Must Die - David Farr

Taking Breath - Sarah Daniels

Totally Over You - Mark Ravenhill