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plays for performance

These titles are released for performance by amateurs in the British Isles.

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There may be restrictions on the performance of certain plays overseas. Amateurs intending production overseas must, in their own interest, make application to us, or our authorized agents, before starting rehearsals or booking a theatre or hall.

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SECTION A

Full Length Plays (arranged under title/author)

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |

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An asterisk denotes that Samuel French Ltd is the publisher.

A

Abelard and Heloise (Ronald Millar)*.
  Play. M12 F9. Extras. Multiple skeleton set. Fee code J

Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh)*.
   Play. M2 F3. A living-room and kitchen. Fee code M

About Alice (Charles Laurence).
  Play. M2 F2. Extras. A sitting-room. Fee code M

Absent Friends (Alan Ayckbourn)*.
   Play. M3 F3. A liviing-room. Fee code M

Absolute Hell (Rodney Ackland).
   Play. M11 F10. A drinking club. Fee code M

Absurd Person Singular (Alan Ayckbourn)*
   Play. M3 F3. Three kitchen settings. Fee code M

Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Dario Fo/Gavin Richards)
   Farce. M5 F1. Two offices. Fee code M

Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Dario Fo/Simon Nye)
   Farce. M5 F1. Two offices. Fee code M

Accolade (Emlyn Williams)
   Play. M5 F4 1 boy. A study. Fee code M

Accommodations (Nick Hall)*
   Comedy. M2 F2. An apartment room. Fee code L

Accounts (Michael Wilcox)
   Play. M4 F1. Various simple interior and exterior settings. Fee code L

The Accrington Pals (Peter Whelan)*
   Play. M5 F5. Simple settings on an open stage. Fee code M

Action Replay (Fay Weldon)*
   Play. M3 F3. A flat and elsewhere. Fee code L

Adam Bede (George Eliot/Geoffrey Beevers)*
   Play. Flexible cast of up to 30 characters, can be played by a minimum of M3 F3. Various interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

The Admirable Crichton (J. M. Barrie)*
   Fantastic comedy. M13 F12. Two interiors, one exterior. Fee code M

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Matthew Francis/Mark Twain)*
   Play. M22 F8 (doubling possible). Various interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

After Darwin (Timberlake Wertenbaker)
   M5 F1 or M3 F1. Simple settings. Fee code M

After Easter (Anne Devlin)
   Play. M7 F7. Various simple settings. Fee code M

After Liverpool (James Saunders)*
   Play. Any number of characters. Fee code F. (Published with Games.) Playing time one to one and a half hours according to use made of material

After Miss Julie (A version of Strindberg’s Miss Julie by Patrick Marber)
Play. M1 F2. A kitchen. Fee code M

After October (Rodney Ackland)
  Play. M5 F6. A living-room. Fee code M

After the Rain (John Bowen)
   Play. M9 F3. A bare stage. Fee code M

Agnes of God (John Pielmeier)
   Play. F3. A open stage. Fee code M for play, code B for music

Alarms and Excursions (Michael Frayn)
   Eight short plays. M16 F14 can be played by M2 F2. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Albert Make Us Laugh (Jimmie Chinn)*
   Play. M6 F8 or M4 F5 (with doubling). Various simple interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

Alfie (Bill Naughton)*
   Play. M9 F9. Composite setting. Fee code M

All in Good Time (Bill Naughton)*
   Comedy. M7 F4. Three interiors, one exterior. Fee code H

All Things Bright and Beautiful (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)*
   Comedy. M6 F3. A kitchen/living-room, a yard. Fee code M

All Things Considered (Ben Brown)*
   Play. M4 F3. A living-room. Fee code M

All's Fair (FrankVickery)*
   Play. M2 F4. A living-room. Fee code L

'Allo 'Allo (Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft)*
   Comedy. M8 F5. Extras. Various interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

Alone It Stands (John Breen) Available in Great Britain only
Comedy. M5 F1 play multiple parts. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Alphabetical Order (Michael Frayn)*
   Play. M4 F3. A library. Fee code M

Amadeus (Peter Shaffer)*
   Play. M12 F3. Extras. Interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

American Buffalo (David Mamet)
   Drama. M3 A junk shop. Fee code M

Amongst Barbarians (Michael Wall)
   Play. M5 F4. Two hotel bedrooms, a prison cell. Fee code M

Amorous Ambassador (Michael Parker)
   American farce. M4 F4. A living-room. Fee code M

Amphibious Spangulatos (Paul Doust)*
   Farce. M13 F21. Doubling possible. A sports changing-room in a village hall. Fee code L

Amy's View (David Hare)
   Play. M3 F3. A living-room, a dressing-room. Fee code M

Anagram of Murder (Seymour Matthews)*
   Thriller. M3 F3. A living-room. Fee code L

Anastasia (Marcelle Maurette/Guy Bolton)*
   Play. M8 F5. A room in a mansion. Fee code M

Anastasia File (Royce Ryton)*
   Play. M2 F2. Various simple ssettings. Fee code M

Ancient Lights (Shelagh Stephenson)
Play. M2 F4. A living-room. Fee code L

And a Nightingale Sang (C. P. Taylor)*
   Play. M4 F3. An open stage. Fee code M

And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)*
   Play. M9 F3. A living-room. Fee code M

Animal Farm (Nelson Bond/George Orwell)
   Fable. M5 F2. No setting. Fee code M. NB: this is a staged reading version

Animal Farm (George Orwell/Peter Hall/Adrian Mitchell/Richard Peaslee)
   Play with music. M9 F6, 1 boy. Extras. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery/Slyvia Ashby)
   Play. M4 F5. 3 boys, 4 girls. Some doubling possible. Various interior and exterior settings. Fee code L

The Anniversary (Bill MacIlwraith)*
   Play. M3 F3. A living-room. Fee code M

Anorak of Fire (Stephen Dinsdale)*
   Play. M1. A railway station platform. Fee code H

Another Country (Julian Mitchell)
   Play. M9, 1 boy. A public school library, study, dormitory, cricket field. Fee code M

Another Time (Ronald Harwood)
   Ply. M3 F2. A pentagonal hall of a small ground floor flat, a recording studio. Fee code M

Antigone (Jean Anouilh/Barbara Bray)
   M8 F4. An open space. Fee code M

Antigone
   Play. Fee code M

(Bertolt Brecht/K.I. Porter)
(Bertolt Brecht/Robert Cannon)

Anybody for Murder? (Brian Clemens/Dennis Spooner)*
   Play. M3 F3. A converted farmhouse on a Greek island. Fee code M

Anyone for Breakfast? (Derek Benfield)*
   M3 F3. A living-room. Fee code L

April in Paris (John Godber)*
   Comedy. M1 F1. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Arcadia - Tom Stoppard*
   Play. M8 F4. A room. Fee code M

The Architect (David Greig)
Play. M4 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Are You Being Served? (Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft)
Comedy. M10 F6 (M7 F4 1M. Extra with doubling). A department store, and Spanish hotel settings. Fee code M

Aren't We All? (Frederick Lonsdale)
Comedy. M8 F4. Two drawing-rooms. Fee code M

Aristocrats (Brian Friel)
Play. M6 . A lawn and a small room. Fee code M

Art. (Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton)
Play. M3. A room. Fee code M

Artist Descending a Staircase (Tom Stoppard)*
Play. M6 F1. An attic studio, a room, in the open air. Fee code M

The Aspern Papers (Henry James/Michael Redgrave)*
Comedy of Letters. M2 F4. The sala of a Venetian house. Fee code H

At Break of Day (Noël Greig)
Play. 17 characters. Various interior and exterior settings suggested on a bare stage. Fee code K

At the Sign of "The Crippled Harlequin" (Norman Robbins)*
Thriller. M3 F5. The lounge of a guest house. Fee code L

Attemtps on Her Life (Martin Crimp)
Play. M4 F4. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Audacity (Simon Mawdsley)
Play. M3 F2. A bedsit. Fee code L

Audience with Murder (Roger Leach and Colin Wakefield)*
Thriller. M2 F2. 1 male voice. A livinig-room. Fee code L

August (Julian Mitchell/Anton Chekhov)
Play. M7 F4. A terrace, a dining-room, a drawing-room, a bedroom. Fee code M

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Baal
M18 F12. Extras. Interior and exterior settings. Fee code M (for play), code A (for music)
(Bertolt Brecht/Peter Tegal)
(Bertolt Brecht/Christopher Logue)
(Bertolt Brecht/Wiliam E. Smith/Ralph Manheim)

Baby Doll. (Tennessee Williams. A new stage version devised and originally directed by Lucy Bailey)*
M15 F2. Extras. Composite set: house and yard; doctor's surgery; a café. Fee code M

Baby with the Bathwater (Christopher Durang)
Comedy. M2 F8 or M2 F3. Composite set. Fee code H

The Bacchae (Euripides/Neil Curry)
Play. M7 F1, chorus of women. An open stage. Fee code J

Back to the Land (Do Shaw)
Community Play. M9 F17. Various simple settings. Fee code L

Bad Blood (Richard Stockwell)
M3 F2. A living-room. Fee code M

Bad Company (Simon Bent)*
Play. M6 F2. Various simple scenes. Fee code M

A Bad Dream (Simon Brett)*
Play. M8 F12. A committee room. Fee code L

Balmoral (Michael Frayn)
Comedy. M6 F2. A room in Balmoral Castle. Fee code M

Barefoot in the Park (Neil Simon)*
Comedy. M4 F2. New York apartment. Fee code M

Bash (Neil LaBute)
Three plays. M1 F1 or M2 F2. Simple settings. Fee Code M (for triple bill) E (for each play)

Battle of Angels (Tennessee Williams)
Play. M11 F11. Fee code M

Bazaar and Rummage (Sue Townsend)
Comedy. F6. A multi-purpose church hall. Fee code J

The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Martin McDonagh)
Play. M2 F2. A kitchen/living-room. Fee code M

Becket (Jean Anouilh/Lucienne Hill)*
Play. M34 F5. Composite setting. Fee code H

Becket (Jean Anouilh/ Frederic Raphael and Stephen Raphael)
Play. M 19 F4. Extras. Simple settings. Fee code M

Bed (Jim Cartwright)
Play. M4 F4. A giant bed. Fee code M

A Bedfull of Foreigners (Dave Freeman)*
Comedy. M4 F3. An hotel bedroom. Fee code M

Bedroom Farce (Alan Ayckbourn)*
Comedy. M4 F4. Three bedrooms in one set. Fee code M

Bedside Manners (Derek Benfield)*
Comedy. M3 F2. A reception room and two bedrooms represented by the same set. Fee code L

Benefactors (Michael Frayn)*
Play. M2 F2. A bare stage. Fee code M

Bent (Martin Sherman)
M11 with doubling. Various simple interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

The Best of Friends (Hugh Whitemore)
Play. M2 F1. A sitting-room, a conservatory, a study. Fee code M

Betrayal (Harold Pinter)
Play. M2 F1. Extra 1M. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Beulah (James Robson)*
Play. M4 F6. A living-room. Fee code M

Beyond a Joke (Derek Benfield)*
Comedy. M4 F4. A drawing-room and garden. Fee code L

Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Jeffrey Archer)*
Play. M11 F3. The Central Criminal Court, a London house. Fee code M

Beyond Therapy (Christopher Durang)
Comedy. M4 F2. Various interiors, may be simply suggested. Fee code M

Big Bad Mouse (Philip King/Falkland Cary)*
Farce. M3 F4. An office. Fee code M

Billy Liar (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)*
Comedy. M3 F5. A composite set. Fee code M

Biloxi Blues (Neil Simon)
Comedy. M7 F2. Various interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

A Bird in the Hand (Derek Benfield)*
Comedy. M4 F6. A flat. Fee code K

Birdy (Naomi Wallace)
Play. M6 . Various simple settings. Fee code M

The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter)*
Play. M4 F2. A living-room. Fee code M

Birthday Suite (Robin Hawdon)*
Comedy. M3 F2. Two adjoining hotel rooms. Fee code M

Biting the Bullet (Frank Vickery)*
Play. M2 F3. A living-room. Fee code M

Black Coffee (Agatha Christie)
Play. M10 F3. A library. Fee code M

Black Widow (Paul Thain)*
Play. M4 F6. Doubling possible. A bare stage. Fee code M

The Blind Fiddler (Marie Jones)
Play. M2 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Blinded by the Sun (Stephen Poliakoff)
Play. M4 F4. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Blithe Spirit (Noël Coward)*
Improbable farce. M2 F5. A living-room. Fee code M

Blood Brothers (play version) (Willy Russell)
13 characters. Simple settings. Fee code M

Blood Money (The Heather Brothers)*
Thriller. M1 F3. 1F extra. 1M 2F voices only. A lounge. Fee code M

Blood Sweat and Tears (John Godber)*
Play. M2 F3. Composite set on 2 levels: a burger bar, a judo hall. Fee code M

Blood Wedding (Federico García Lorca/Gwynne Edwards)
Play. M9 F11. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Bloody Poetry (Howard Brenton)
Play. M3 F3. A bare stage. Fee code M

Blue Heart (Caryl Churchill)
Double bill. M2 F7, with doubling. Child extras. A kitchen, various simple settings. Fee code M as double bill

Blue Murder (Peter Nichols)
Double bill. M5 F2. Composite set: a study, a sitting-room, an elegant room. Fee code M

Blue/Orange (Joe Penhall)
Play. M3. A hospital consultation room. Fee code M

Blue Remembered Hills (Dennis Potter)*
Play. M5 F2. Composite setting: wood, field barn. Fee code M

The Blue Room (Freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde by David Hare)
Play. 10 characters, minimum cast of M1 F1. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Body Language (Alan Ayckbourn)*
Play. M5 F3. A terrace. Fee code M

Boeing-Boeing* (Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross)
Comedy. M3 F4. A flat. Fee code M

Bold Girls (Rona Munro)*
Play. A kitchen, a night club, a hilltop. Fee code M

A Bolt from the Blue (David Tristram)
  Comedy. Flexible casting: M2 F2 minimum. Simple settings. Fee code L

Bonaventure (Charlotte Hastings)*
Play. M3 F8. Two interiors. Fee code M

Bone-Chiller (Monk Ferris)
Comedic-Mystery-Thriller. M5 F8. Can also be M4 F9, or M6 F7. A parlour/library. Fee code M

Borders of Paradise (Sharman Macdonald)
Play. M5 F2. A beach. Fee code M

Born in the Gardens (Peter Nichols)*
Play. M2 F2. A living-room. Fee code M

Bottom's Dream (Alan Poole)*
Play. M8 F6. Children: M or F5. Various simple settings on an open stage. Fee code K

BoyBand (Peter Quilter)*
M7 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

The Boys in the Band (Mart Crowley)
Play. M9. An apartment. Fee code M

Brassed Off (Paul Allen, from the screenplay by Mark Herman)
Play M6+ F4+. Composite setting. Fee code M

The Break of Day (Timberlake Wertenbaker)
Play. M8 F5, with doubling. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Breaking the Code (Hugh Whitemore)*
Play. M7 F2. An open space. Fee code M

Breaking the Silence (Stephen Poliakoff)*
Play. M5 F2. A railway carriage. Fee code M

Breaking the String (Frank Vickery)*
Play. M2 F2. A sitting-room. Fee code L

The Breath of Life (David Hare)
Play. F2. A flat. Fee code M

Breath of Spring (Peter Coke)*
Comedy. M3 F5. A living-room. Fee code M

Breathing Corpses (Laura Wade)
Play. M4 F3. Various simple sets. Fee code L

Breezeblock Park (Willy Russell)*
Play. M5 F4. Two split-level sets: living-room and kitchen. Fee code M

Brideshead Revisited (Roger Parsley/Evelyn Waugh)*
Play. M14 F8. M4 F3 with doubling. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Brief Lives (Patrick Garland, from the writings of John Aubrey)
Play. M1, M and F voices only. A Jacobean chamber. Fee code M

Brighton Beach Memoirs (Neil Simon)
Play. M3 F4. Various interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

Brimstone and Treacle (Dennis Potter)*
M2 F2. A living-room. Fee code M

Britannicus (Racine/Robert David MacDonald)
Play. M3 F3. A room. Fee code M

Broadway Bound (Neil Simon)
Play. M4 F2. 2M 1F, voices only. Split set representing a house. Fee code M

Brothers of the Brush (Jimmy Murphy)
Play. M4. A basement room. Fee code M

Building Blocks (Bob Larbey)*
Play. M5 F1. A garden. Fee code M

Bums on Seats (Michael Snelgrove)*
Comedy. M6 F10, or M3 F6 with doubling. Extras. A stage, an auditorium. Fee code L

Buried Alive. (Philip Osment)
Play. M5 F4. Various simple settings. Fee code M

The Business of Murder (Richard Harris)*
Play. M2 F1. A first-floor flat. Fee code M

Busybody (Jack Popplewell)*
Comedy. M4 F4. An office. Fee code M

Butley (Simon Gray)
Play. M4 F3. A university lecturer's study. Fee code M

Butterflies Are Free (Leonard Gershe)
Comedy. M2 F2. A one-room apartment. Fee code M for play, code B for music

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Calico (Michael Hastings)
M4 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

California Suite (Neil Simon)
Comedy. M2 plus M3. F2 plus F3. A hotel suite. Fee code M

Camille (Pam Gems)*
M13 F6, a boy, M1 (voice only), a pianist. Extras. Interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

Camino Real (Tennessee Williams)
Play. M21 F7. Extras. A plaza in a walled city. Fee code M

Can You Hear Me at the Back? (Brian Clark)
Play. M3 F2. A living-room, other small sets. Fee code M

Candleford (Keith Dewhurst/Flora Thompson)*
Play. M12 F6, with doubling. An open stage. Fee code M

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer/Phil Woods/Chris Barnes)
Large cast may be played by M7 F5. An open space. Fee code M (play), B (music)

Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (Dario Fo/Lino Pertile/Bill Colvill and Robert Walker)
Farce. M6 F2 or M3 F2 with doubling. A living-room and kitchen area. Fee code M

Caramba's Revenge (William Norfolk)*
Play. M1 F6. A living-room. Fee code L

Caravan (Helen Blakeman)* (Available with restrictions)
Play. M2 F3. A caravan park. Fee code M

Cards on the Table (Agatha Christie/Leslie Darbon)*
Play. M7 F7 or M5 F7 with doubling. Two drawing-rooms, a surgery, a patio, a flat. Fee code M

The Caretaker (Harold Pinter)*
Play. M3. A shabby room. Fee code M

Carpe Jugulum (Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs)*
Play. M21 F15. Extras. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Cash on Delivery (Michael Cooney)*
Farce. M6 F4. A living-room. Fee code M

Cat Among the Pigeons (Georges Feydeau/John Mortimer)
Farce. M13 F7. A drawing-room, a bedroom, an apartment. Fee code M

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams)
Play. M7 F3. 2 small girls. Extras. A bedsitting-room. Fee code M

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
M38 F11 with doubling possible. Various simple settings. Fee code M (play), C (music)

(Bertolt Bretcht/W. H. Auden/James and Tania Stern)
(Bertolt Bretcht/Ralph Manheim)
(Bertolt Bretcht/Eric Bentley)
(Bertolt Bretcht/John Holstrom)
(Bertolt Bretchet/Frank McGuinness)

Caught in the Net (Ray Cooney)
Comedy. M5 F2. Composite setting: 2 living-rooms. Fee code M

Caught on the Hop (Derek Benfield)*
Comedy. M4 F4. A sitting-room and patio. Fee code L

Cause Célèbre (Terence Rattigan)
Play. M15 F5. 1 boy. Composite setting. Fee code M

Celebration (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)*
Comedy. M7 F7. A large room above a pub. Fee code M

The Cemetary Club (Ivan Menchell)
Play. M1 F4. A living-room, a cemetary. Fee code M

The Charlatan (William Norfolk)*
M4 F4. Composite setting: a coffee house, a study, a parlour. Fee code M

Charley's Aunt (Brandon Thomas)*
Farce. M6 F4. Two interiors, one exterior. No fee

Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue, S'il Vous Plaît (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)*
Comedy. M1 F4. Two adjoining rooms. Fee code K

Chasing the Moment (Jack Shepherd)
Play. M4 F2. A basement club. Fee code M

Checkmate (Leslie Sands)
Play. M3 F2. 1F voice only. Extra. A living-room. Fee code M

The Cherry Orchard
Play. M9 F5. Extras. A nursery, a drawing-room, open fields. Fee code M

(Anton Chekhov/Samuel Adamson)
(Anton Chekhov/Michael Frayn)
(Anton Chekhov/David Lan)
(Anton Chekhov/David Mamet)

Children of a Lesser God (Mark Medoff)
Play. M3 F4. Various simple interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

Children's Day (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)*
Play. M3 F4. A kitchen. Fee code M

A Child's Christmas in Wales (Jeremy Brooks/Adrian Mitchell/Dylan Thomas)
Christmas musical. M15 F7. Extras. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Chinchilla (Robert David MacDonald)
Play. M11 F5. Simple settings. Fee code M

The Choice (Claire Luckham
Play. M2 F3. A space. Fee code M

A Chorus of Disapproval (Alan Ayckbourn)*
Play. M7 F6. Extras. Various simple settings. Fee code M

A Christmas Carol (play)

(Charles Dickens/John Mortimer)*
(Charles Dickens/Shaun Sutton)

Cider With Rosie (Laurie Lee/James Roose-Evans)*
Play. 24 roles, may be played by M5 F4. Various simple settings. Fee code M

The Circle (W. Somerset Maugham)*
Comedy. M6 F3. A drawing-room. Fee code M

City Sugar (Stephen Poliakoff)*
Play. M4 F3. A sound studio, a supermarket, a bedroom. Fee code M

Class Enemy (Nigel Williams)*
Play. M7. A schoolroom. Fee code M

Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (Terry Johnson)
M3 F3. A caravan. Fee code M

Clerical Errors (Georgina Reid)*
Comedy. M3 F5. A disused Methodist Chapel. Fee code L

Clocks and Whistles (Samuel Adamson)
Play. M3 F2. Variouis simple settings. Fee code M

Close the Coalhouse Door (Alan Plater, from the stories by Sid Chaplin. Songs by Alex Glasgow)
Musical documentary. M8 F2. Extras. Composite set. Fee code M

Closer (Patrick Marber) (Not available in Scotland)
Play. M2 F2. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Clothes for a Summer Hotel (Tennessee Williams)
Ghost play. M9-13 F7-14, doubling possible. An asylum. Fee code M

Cloud Nine (Caryl Churchill)*
Play. M4 F3. A veranda, a hut interior. Fee code M

The Cocktail Hour (A. R. Gurney)*
Comedy. M2 F2. A living-room. Fee code M

Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons/Paul Doust)*
Play. M9 F6, doubling possible. Extras. A kitchen, an attic room, a garden. Fee code M

Collaborators (John Mortimer)*
Play. M2 F2. A living-room. Fee code K

The Collector (Mark Healy, adapted from the novel by John Fowles)
Play. M1 F1. Various simple settings. Fee code L

Come As You Are (John Mortimer)*
Four playlets. M2 F2 or M8 F7. A bedroom, a living-room. Fee code K

Come Back for Light Refreshments After the Service (Julie Day)
Play. M1 F5. Various simple interior and exterior settings. Fee code G

Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Ed Graczyck)
Comedy-drama. M1 F8. A five-and-dime store in Texas. Fee code M

Come Blow Your Horn (Neil Simon)
Comedy. M2 F4. A bachelor apartment. Fee code M

Come On, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton)
M5 F4. A living-room. Fee code L

Comedians (Trevor Griffiths)
M11. A classroom. Fee code M

The Comedy of Terrors! (John Goodrum)*
M1 F1. A theatre stage. Fee code L

Comfort and Joy (Mike Harding)*
Comedy. M6 F6 or M5 F5 with doubling. A front room. Fee code M

Comic Potential (Alan Ayckbourn)
Comedy. M5 F5, with doubling. A TV studio and various simple hotel settings. Fee code M

The Common Pursuit (Simon Gray)*
Play. M5 F1. Various interior settings. Fee code M

Communicating Doors (Alan Ayckbourn)*
Comedy. M3 F3. A hotel suite. Fee code M

Compact Failure (Jennifer Farmer)
Play. M1 F6, 1 M or F. Simple settings. Fee code K

Confusions (Alan Ayckbourn)*
Five interlinked one-act plays. M3 F2 (minimum cast) A living-room, a bar, a restaurant, a marquee, a park. Fee code M

Conjugal Rights (Roger Hall)*
Play. M1 F1. A bedroom. Fee code M

The Constant Wife (W. Somerset Maugham)*
Comedy. M4. A drawing-room. Fee code M

The Continental Quilt (Joan Greening)*
Farce. M4 F6. A living-room. Fee code K

Conversations After a Burial (Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton)
Play. M3 F3. An open space. Fee code M

Cooking with Elvis. (Lee Hall)
Play. M2 F2. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Copenhagen. (Michael Frayn)
Play. M2 F1. Simple settings. Fee code M

Coriolanus (Bertolt Brecht/Ralph Manheim)
Play. M11 F3. Numerous settings on an open stage. Fee code M

The Corn is Green (Emlyn Williams)*
Play. M10 F5. Extras. A living-room. Fee code M

Corpse! (Gerald Moon)*
Comedy thriller. M4 F1. A basement flat, an elegant flat. Fee code M

Corpsing (Peter Barnes)*
Four one-act plays. M6 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Count Dracula (Ted Tiller/Bram Stoker)
Play. M7 F2. Living quarters and crypt of an asylum for the insane. Fee code M

The Country (Martin Crimp)
Play. M1 F2. A room. Fee code M

The Cracked Pot (Blake Morrison/Heinrich von Kleist)*
Play. M5 F4. A courtroom. Fee code M

Cracks (Martin Sherman)*
Play. M5 F4. Composite setting: a living-room, study and garden. Fee code M

Cranford (Martyn Coleman, adapted from the novel by Mrs Gaskell)
Play. M2 F8 or 9. A parlour. Fee code K

Credible Witness. (Timberlake Wertenbaker) (Restricted within 50 miles of London)
Play. M8 F3. Simple settings. Fee code K

The Creeper. Pauline Macaulay
Play. M5. A lounge. Fee code J

Crimes of the Heart (Beth Henley)
Comedy. M2 F4. A kitchen. Fee code M

The Cripple of Inishmaan (Martin McDonagh)
Play. M5 F4. Various simple interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

The Crucifer of Blood (Paul Giovanni/Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Play. M10 F1, with doubling. Three exterior, two interior settings. Fee code M

Cruel and Tender (Martin Crimp)
Play. M5 F5, 1 boy. A room. Fee code M

Cuckoo (Emlyn Williams)*
Play. M3 F4. A living-room. a veranda. Fee code M

Curtain Call (Bettine Manktelow)*
Comedy. M3 F5. An office. Fee code L

Curtain Up on Murder - Bettine Manktelow*
Thriller. M3 F5. A stage. Fee code L

Curtains (Stephen Bill)*
Play. M3 F5. A living-room. Fee code M

Curtmantle (Christopher Fry)
Play. M24 F7. Extras, doubling possible. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Cut and Run (Peter Horsler)*
Comedy. M4 F5. A doctor's surgery. Fee code L

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Dad's Army*
Three comedies. Large, flexible cast. A church hall and office, other simple settings. Fee code M for complete play. For details of individual plays, please see the entries in Section B under the titles The Deadly Attachment, The Godiva Affair, Mum's Army

Daisy Miller (Dawn Keeler, adapted in collaboration with Adolf Wood from the story by Henry James)
Play. M3 F4, may be played by M2 F4. Extras. Various simple settings. Fee code L

Daisy Pulls It Off (Denise Deegan)*
Comedy. M2 F14, may be played by M2 F11. Extras. A school. Fee code M

Damsels in Distress (A trilogy of plays by Alan Ayckbourn)
The trilogy comprises FlatSpin, GamePlan and RolePlay. Please see individual titles for details

Dancing at Lughnasa (Brian Friel)*
Play. M3 F5. Composite set: a kitchen and garden. Fee code M

Dangerous Corner (J. B. Priestley)*
Drama. M3 . A drawing-room. Fee code M

Dangerous Obsession (N. J. Crisp)*
Play. M2 F1. A conservatory. Fee code M

The Dark Is Light Enough (Christopher Fry)*
Play. M13 F3. A room and great staircase, stables. Fee code M

The Dark River (Rodney Ackland)
Play. M5 F3. 1 boy. A room in an old house. Fee code M

The Darling Buds of May (H. E. Bates)*
Comedy. M5 F6. 1 boy, 4 girls. A kitchen/living-room and yard. Fee code M

Darling Mr London (Anthony Marriott/Bob Grant)*
Farce. M3 F6. A living-room. Fee code L

Daughters of Venice (Don Taylor)*
Play. M9 F22. Extras. Various simple interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

David Copperfield (Matthew Francis/Charles Dickens)*
Play. M19 F10. Extras. Minimum cast of 13. Various interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

The Day After the Fair (Frank Harvey/Thomas Hardy)*
Play. M2 F4. A living-room and hall. Fee code K

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Peter Nichols)*
Play. M2 F3. 1 child (non-speaking). A living-room. Fee code M

Day of Reckoning (Pam Valentime)*
Play. M1 F7. A village hall. Fee code L

The Days of the Commune
Play. M42 F12, 2 children. Extras. Interior and exterior settings. Fee code M (play), code C (music)

(Bertolt Brecht/Clive Barker/Arno Reinfrank)
(Bertolt Brecht/Jean Benedetti)
(Bertolt Brecht/Ray Herman)

Dead Funny - Terry Johnson (Available with certain restrictions)
Comedy. M3 F2. A living-room. Fee code M

Dead Guilty (Richard Harris)*
Play. M1 F3. 1 male voice. A sitting-room. Fee code M

Dead Man's Hand (Seymour Matthews)*
Thriller. M3 F3. A lounge. Fee code L

Dead of Night (Peter Whalley)*
Thriller. M2 F2. A living-room. Fee code M

Dead-Lock (Hugh Janes)*
Thrilller. M3 F2. A large country house. Fee code M

Deadly Embrace (Eric Paice)*
Thriller. M1 F3. Extras 1M 1F. A living-room with gallery bedroom. Fee code M

Deadly Nightcap (Francis Durbridge)*
Play. M6 F4. A living-room. Fee code M

Dealer's Choice (Patrick Marber)
Play. M6. A kitchen, restaurant, basement. Fee code M

Dealing with Cliar (Martin Crimp)
Play. M4 F3. Various simple settings. Period late 1980s. Fee code M

Dear Brutus (J. M. Barrie)*
Comedy. M5 F6. A drawing-room, a wood. Fee code M

Dear Octopus (Dodie Smith)*
Comedy. M5 F12. Three interiors. Fee code M

The Dearly Beloved (Philip Osment)*
Play. M4 F5. Simple interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

Death and the Maiden (Ariel Dorfman)
Play. M2 F1. A dining/living-room. Fee code M

Death Is Catching (Jean McConnell and Miles Tripp)
Play. M3 F1. A desert campsite. M3 F1

Death Walked In (Bettine Manktelow)*
Play. M3 F4. An hotel lounge. Fee code K

Deathtrap (Ira Levin)*
Thriller. M3 F2. A study. Fee code M

Deceptions (Paul Wheeler)
Play. M1 F1. A consulting-room, a bedsitter. Fee code M

The Decision (See The Measures Taken)

The Decorator (Donald Churchill)
Comedy. M1 F2. A flat. Fee code M

The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Rattigan)*
Play. M5 F3. A sitting-room. Fee code M

A Delicate Balance (Edward Albee)
Play. M2 F4. A living-room. Fee code M

Deliver Us From Evil (J.D. Robins)
Play. M3 F4. A sitting-room. Fee code K

Democarcy (Slightly restricted) (Michael Frayn)
Play. M10. Various simple settings. Period 1969. Fee code M

The Devil at Midnight (Brian Clemens)
Play. M2 F2. M2 F1 (voices only). A living-room. Fee code M

The Devils (John Whiting)*
Play. M17 F6. Composite setting. Fee code L

Departures (John Godber)
Play. M3 F6, Various simple settings. Fee code M

Dial M For Murder (Frederick Knott)*
Play. M4 F1. A living-room. Fee code M

The Diary of Anne Frank (Frances Goodrich/Albert Hackett)*
Play. M5 F5. An attic. Fee code M

A Different Way Home (Jimmie Chinn)*
Play. M1 F1 A living-room. Fee code M

The Dining Room (A. R. Gurney)*
Play. 57 characters played by M3 F3 (minimum). A dining-room. Fee code M

Dinner (Moira Buffini)
Play. M4 F3. A dining area. Fee code M

Dirty Linen and Newfoundland (Tom Stoppard)*
Two plays. M8 F2. A committee room in the House of Commons. Fee code K

Disappeared (Phyllis Nagy)*
Play. M5 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

The Disorderly Women (John Bowen)*
Play. M6 F7. Composite set. Fee code J

Disposing of the Body (Hugh Whitemore)
Play. M5 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (Tom Stoppard)
Double bill. Up to 20 characters, much doubling possible. Fee code M for double bill, code F when performed separately

A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen/Samuel Adamson)
Play. M3 F3. 1 boy, 1 girl. A living-room. Fee code L

A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen/Christopher Hampton)
Play. M3 F4. 1 boy, 1 girl (optional). A flat. Fee code M

Dolly West's Kitchen (Frank McGuinness)
Play. M5 F4. A kitchen and part of a garden. Fee code M

Don Juan (Bertolt Bretcht/Ralph Manheim)
Play. M15 F6. Fee code M

Don Juan in Soho (Patrick Marber, after Molière)(Available in the UK only)
Play. M7 F3. A hotel lobby, hospital A & E, Soho Square. Fee code M

Doña Rosita the Spinster, or the Language of Flowers (Federico García Lorca/Gwynne Edwards)
Play. M7 F12, a voice. Two rooms. Fee code M

Donkey's Years (Michael Frayn)*
Play. M8 F1. A college courtyard, two studies. Fee code M

Don't Dress for Dinner (Marc Camoletti/Robin Hawdon)*
Farce. M3 F3. A living-room. Fee code M

Don't Drink the Water (Woody Allen)
Comedy. M12 F4. An embassy. Fee code M

Don't Lose the Place! (Derek Benfield)*
Comedy. M3 F2. Composite setting: a sitting-room, patio and part of a garden. Fee code L

Double Death. (Simon Williams)
M2 F2. 1M extra. A living-room. Fee code L

Double Double (Eric Elice/Roger Rees)*
Play. M1 F1. A London apartment. Fee code M

Double Vision. (Eric Chappell)*
Play. M2 F1. A living-room. Fee code M

The Distance from Here (Neil LaBute)*
Play. M5 F4. Various simple settings. Fee code M

A Dream Play. (August Strindberg, in a new version by Caryl Churchill)
Play. Large cast may be played by M5 F5. Various simple settings. Fee code K

Dreaming (Peter Barnes)
Play. Large cast may be played by M11 F4. Various simple settings. Fee code M (play). Details of the music available from Samuel French Ltd

The Dresser (Ronald Harwood)
Play. M4 F3. Composite set. Fee code M

Drowning on Dry Land (Alan Ayckbourn)
Comedy. M4 F3. 2 girls. A garden and folly. Fee code M

Drums in the Night
Drama. M9 F6. Interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

(Bertolt Brecht/John Willett)
(Bertolt Brecht/Gerhard Nelhaus)
(Bertolt Brecht/Richard Beckley)
(Bertolt Brecht/Frank Jones)

The Drunkard, or Down with Demon Drink! (Brian J. Burton)
Melodrama. M7 F8. Extras. Interior and exterior settings. Fee code L

Duet for One (Tom Kempinski)*
Play. M1 F1. A consulting-room. Fee code M

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East Lynne (Brian J. Burton)*

Easy Terms (Frank Vickery)

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Tennessee Williams)

Edge of Darkness (Brian Clemens)*

The Editing Process (Meredith Oakes)

Edmond (David Mamet)

Educating Rita (Willy Russell)*

Edwina Black (See The Late Edwina Black)

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Zindel)

84 Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff/James Roose-Evans)*

The Elephant Man (Bernard Pomerance)

Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman. (Dario Fo/Gillian Hanna)

Elsie and Norm's "Macbeth" (John Christopher-Wood)*

Elton John's Glasses David Farr

The End of the Affair (Graham Greene/Rupert Goold/Caroline Butler)*

The End of the Food Chain (Tim Firth)*

Enjoy (Alan Bennett)*

The Enquiry (Charlotte Hastings)*

Enter a Free Man (Tom Stoppard)

The Entertainer (John Osborne)*

Entertaining Mr Sloane (Joe Orton)

Entertaining Strangers (David Edgar)

Equally Divided (Ronald Harwood)
Play. M2 F2. A house made out of old railway carriages. Fee code M

Equus (Peter Shaffer)*

Erogenous Zones (Frank Vickery)*

The Erpingham Camp (Joe Orton)

Exit the King (Eugene Ionesco/Donald Watson)*

Exorcism (Don Taylor)*

An Experiment with an Air Pump (Shelagh Stephenson)

Extremities (William Mastrosimone)

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Faith Healer (Brian Friel)

Falling Off a Log (Georgina Reid)*

Falling Short (James Robson)*

Fallout (Roy Williams)
Play. M7 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code L

False Admissions (Marivaux/Timberlake Wertenbaker)

The False Servant (Pierre Marivaux/Martin Crimp)
Comedy. M4 F2. Extras. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Family Circles (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Family Planning (Frank Vickery)*

Far Away (Caryl Churchill)
M1 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code L

Far from the Madding Crowd* (Matthew White/Thomas Hardy)

Farndale Avenue/Christmas Carol (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)*

Farndale Avenue/Macbeth (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)*

Farndale Avenue/Mikado (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)*

Farndale Avenue/Murder Mystery (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)*

Fatal Attraction (Bernard Slade)

Fatal Encounter. (Francis Durbridge)*
M5 F3. A living-room. Fee code M

Father's Day (Eric Chappell)
M2 F2. A living-room. Fee code M

Fathers and Sons (Brian Friel/Ivan Turgenev)

Fawlty Towers (John Cleese and Connie Booth)
See Section B

Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

(Bertolt Brecht/John Willett)
(Bertolt Brecht/Eric Bentley)
(Bertolt Brecht/Paul Kriwaczek)

Feed (Tom Elliott. Music by Derek Hilton)*

Female Transport (Steve Gooch)

Fen (Caryl Churchill)

A Few Good Men (Aaron Sorkin)
M14 (wide range of ages) F1. Extras. Various simple settings. Fee code M for play, code A for music

Fewer Emergencies (Martin Crimp)
Play. 3 actors (including F1). A bare stage

Fiddler's Three (Eric Chappell)
M5 F2. Two adjoining offices. Fee code M

The Fifteen Streets (Catherine Cookson/Rob Bettinson)*

Fighting Chance (N. J. Crisp)*

Filumena (Eduardo de Filippo/Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)*

The Final Twist (Ken Whitmore and Alfred Bradley)

Find Me (Olwen Wymark)*

First Things First (Derek Benfield)*
M3 F3. A living-room. Fee code L

The Firstborn (Christopher Fry)

Fish Out of Water (revised version) (Derek Benfield)

Fish Out of Water (original version) (Derek Benfield)

Five Finger Exercise (Peter Shaffer)*

Five Wives of Maurice Pinder (Matt Charman)
M3 F5. A living-room, garden and caravan. Fee code M

Flare Path (Terence Rattigan)*

FlatSpin (from Damsels in Distress by Alan Ayckbourn)
M3 F4. An apartment. Fee code M

A Flea in Her Ear (Georges Feydeau/John Mortimer)*

A Fly in the Ointment (Derek Benfield)*

Flying Feathers (Derek Benfield)*

Fools (Neil Simon)

Fool's Paradise (Peter Coke)*

Fools Rush In (Kenneth Horne)*

A Foot in the Door (Richard Harris)*
M3 F3. A sitting-room. Fee code M

The Foreigner (Larry Shue)*

Forget-Me-Knot (David Tristram)

The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy/Pat and Derek Hoddinott)*

Fortune's Fool. (Ivan Turgenev. Adapted by Mike Poulton)*
M7 F2. Extras. A garden room, a drawing-room. Fee code M

Forty Years On (Alan Bennett)

Francis (Julian Mitchell)

Frankenstein (Tim Kelly/Mary Shelley)

Fred and Madge (Joe Orton)

The Freedom of the City (Brian Friel)

French Without Tears (Terence Rattigan)*

The Front Page (Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur)

Frozen (Bryony Lavery)
Play. M1 F2. 1M extra. 1 male voice. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Funeral Games (Joe Orton)

Funny Business (Derek Benfield)
Comedy. M4 F2. A hotel foyer and two bedrooms. Fee code L

Funny Money (Ray Cooney)

Fur Coat and No Knickers (Mike Harding)*

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Gagarin Way (Gregory Burke)
M4. A factory storeroom. Fee code M

GamePlan (from Damsels in Distress by Alan Ayckbourn)
M3 F4. An apartment. Fee code M

Games (James Saunders)*

The Garden Party (Hazel Wyld and Jimmie Chinn)*

Gasping (Ben Elton)*

Gaslight (Patrick Hamilton)
M2 (ages:45, 60s) F3 (ages:30s-40s). A Victorian living-room. Fee code M. ISBN 0 573 11579 6

The Gentle Hook (Francis Durbridge)*

Gentle Island (Brian Friel)

The Geometry of Love - the Marriage of Lord Byron (Peter Dunne)
M8 F7, may be played by M4 F3. 1M or 1F. Various settings. Fee code K

Germinal (William Gaminara/Emile Zola)

Getting Attention (Martin Crimp)
Play. M4 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Getting On (Alan Bennett)*

Ghetto (Joshua Sobol/David Lan/Jeremy Sams)

The Ghost Train (Arnold Ridley)*

Ghost Writer (David Tristram)

Ghosts (Henrik Ibsen/Richard Harris/J Basil Cowlishaw)*
M3 F2. A garden room. Fee code M

Gift of the Gorgon (Peter Shaffer)*
Play. M4 F5. Extras. A living-room and other simple settings. Fee code M

The Gin Game (D. L. Coburn)

The Gingerbread Lady (Neil Simon)

The Gioconda Smile (Aldous Huxley)*

Give Me Your Answer Do (Brian Friel)

The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)

Glengarry Glen Ross (David Mamet)

Glorious! (Peter Quilter) Availability slightly restricted
Comedy. M2 F4. Various interior and exterior settings. Period 1944. Fee code M

God Only Knows (Hugh Whitemore)
Play. M3 F2. A terrace. Fee code M

God's Favorite (Neil Simon)

Going Straight (Richard Harris)
Play. M2 F3. 1M voice only. A sitting-room. Fee code M

The Golden Pathway Annual (John Harding/John Burrows)*

Gone Up in Smoke (Georgina Reid)*

The Good and Faithful Servant (Joe Orton)

The Good Doctor (Neil Simon)

Good Grief (Keith Waterhouse)

The Good Hope (Herman Heijermans in a new version by Lee Hall. Lyrics by John Tams)
Play. M13 F6. A quay, a courtyard. Fee code M

Good Morning, Bill (P.G. Wodehouse, based on the Hungarian of Ladilaus Fodor)
M4 F3. A hotel suite, a living-hall. Fee code L

The Good Person of Sichuan (Bertolt Brecht/Michael Hofmann)

The Good Person Szechwan (The Good Woman of Setzuan)

(Bertolt Brecht/John Willett)
(Bertolt Brecht/Eric Bentley)

Goodnight Mrs Puffin (Arthur Lovegrove)*

The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol/Alistair Beaton)
Large mixed cast. A room, an inn room. Period 19th century. Fee code L

Grace Note (Samuel Adamson)

The Grace of Mary Traverse (Timberlake Wertenbaker)

The Graduate (Available in the UK only) (Terry Johnson/Charles Webb/Calder Willingham/Buck Henry)
Comedy. M6 F5 (with doubling). Various simple settings. Period 1965. Fee code M

Grand Magic (Eduardo de Filippo/Carlo Ardito)

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens/Hugh Leonard)

Green Fingers (Michael Wilcox)

Greetings! (Tom Dudzick)

Groping for Words (Sue Townsend)

The Gut Girls (Sarah Daniels)

Gym and Tonic (John Godber)*

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Habeas Corpus (Alan Bennett)*

Hapgood (Tom Stoppard)*

Handyman - Ronald Harwood

The Happiest Days of Your Life (John Dighton)*

Happy Birthday(Marc Camoletti/Beverley Cross)*

Happy Families (John Godber)*

Happy Jack (John Godber)

The Happy Wizard (Kathleen Edleston)

Hard Feelings (Doug Lucie)*

Hard Times (play) (Charles Dickens/Stephen Jeffreys)*

Haunted (Eric Chappell)*

Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)*

Hay Fever (Noël Coward)*

Haywire - Eric Chappell*

Heatstroke - Eric Chappell*

Hedda Gabler

(Henrik Ibsen/Christopher Hampton)*
(Henrik Ibsen/John Osborne)*

The Heiress (Ruth and Augustus Goetz/Henry James)

Henceforward ... (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Henry IV (Pirandello/Stoppard)
Play. M9 F2. A throne room, a room. Fee code M

Heritage (Stephen Churchett)

Hiawatha (Michael Bogdanov)*

Hidden Laughter (Simon Gray)*

High Profiles (Woodrow Wyatt)*

Hitchcock Blonde (Terry Johnson)
Play. M3 F2. Simple settings. Period 1999, 1959,1919. Fee code M

Hobson's Choice (Harold Brighouse)*

Hock and Soda Water (John Mortimer)
Play. M6 F3. Extras. May be played by M5 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Holiday Snap (John Chapman/Michael Pertwee)*

Holidays (John Harrison)*

The Hollow (Agatha Christie)*

The Hollow Crown (John Barton)*

Holmes and the Ripper (Brian Clemens/Stephen Knight)
Play. 20 named characters plus extras (M14 F6) can be played by M8 F5 or M8 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

The Holy Terror: Melon Revised (Simon Gray)*

Home (David Storey)*

Home Before Dark, or The Saga of Miss Edie Hill (Jimmie Chinn)*

Home Is Where Your Clothes Are (Anthony Marriott/Bob Grant)*

The Home Place (Brian Friel)
Play. M8 F3, 1 girl. A garden, a breakfast room. Perio 1878. Fee code M

The Homecoming (Harold Pinter)*

Honeymoon Suite (Richard Bean)
Play. M3 F3. A hotel suite. Fee code M

Hotel Paradiso (Georges Feydeau/Maurice Desvallieres/Peter Glenville)

The Hothouse (Harold Pinter)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Tim Kelly/Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

House & Garden (Alan Ayckbourn)
2 plays. M6 F8. Children. Extras. A sitting-room, a garden. Fee code M for each play

House Guest (Francis Durbridge)*

The House of Bernarda Alba (Federico Garcìa Lorca/Richard L. O'Connell/James Graham Lujàn)

The House of Dracula (Martin Downing)*

The House of Frankenstein! (Martin Downing)*

The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton/Dawn Keeler)

How the Other Half Loves (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Howard Katz (Patrick Marber)
M22 F10, 2 boys, may be played by M5 F2, 1 boy. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Humble Boy (Charlotte Jones)
M3 F3. A garden. Fee code M

Hysteria (Terry Johnson)

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I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls (Morris)

I Have Been Here Before (J. B. Priestley)*

I Love My Love (Fay Weldon)*

I Remember Mama (John van Druten)*

I Thought I Heard a Rustling (Alan Plater)*

Icecream (Caryl Churchill)

If We Are Women (Joanna McClelland Glass)*

I'll Be Back Before Midnight! (Peter Colley)*

I'll Get My Man (Philip King)*

I'll Leave It to You (Noël Coward)

I'm Not Rappaport (Herb Gardner)

The Imaginary Invalid (Molière/Miles Malleson)*

Imaginary Lines (Reggie Oliver)*

The Importance of Being Earnest (3-act version) (Oscar Wilde)*

The Importance of Being Earnest (4-act version) (Oscar Wilde/Vyvyan Holland)*

Improbable Fiction (Alan Ayckbourn)
Comedy. M3 F4. The hall of a large house. Fee code M

In at the Deep End. (Derek Benfield)*
Comedy. M3 F3. Composite setting: various parts of health farm. Fee Code L

In Flame (Charlotte Jones)
Play. M2 F4 with doubling. Various simple settings. Fee code M

In for the Kill (Derek Benfield)*

In Praise of Love (Terence Rattigan)*

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (Tennessee Williams)

In the Jungle of the Cities (In the Cities' Jungle)

(Bertolt Brecht/Gerhard Nelhaus)
(Bertolt Brecht/Ronald Hayman)
(Bertolt Brecht/Anselm Hollo)
(Bertolt Brecht/Eric Bentley)

In Two Minds (Richard Harris)*
M2 F2. A sitting-room and hallway, a kitchen/breakfast room. Fee code M

The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Václav Havel/Vera Blackwell)

Indian Ink (Tom Stoppard)*

Inside Job (Brian Clemens)*

Inside Trading (Malcolm Bradbury)

Insignificance (Terry Johnson)*

Inspecting Carol (Daniel Sullivan/The Seattle Repertory Co.)

An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley)*

Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime (David Tristram)

Inspector Drake and the Time Machine (David Tristram)

Inspector Drake's Last Case (David Tristram)

Interpreters (Ronald Harwood)

Intimate Exchanges (2 volumes) (Alan Ayckbourn)*

The Invention of Love (Tom Stoppard)

The Invisible Man (Ken Hill/H. G. Wells)*

Ion (Euripides. A new version by David Lan)

It Can Damage Your Health (Eric Chappell)*

It Could Be Any One of Us (Alan Ayckbourn)*

It Runs in the Family (Ray Cooney)*

It Started with a Kiss (John Godber)*

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Tim Kelly)

It's Ralph (Hugh Whitemore)

Ivanov (Anton Chekhov, adapted by David Hare)

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Jack the Lad (David Wood/Dave and Toni Arthur)*

Jack the Ripper (Denis De Marne/Ron Pember)*

Jane Eyre

(Charlotte Brontë/Helen Jerome)*
(Charlotte Brontë/Willis Hall)*
(Charlotte Brontë/Charles Vance)*

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (Keith Waterhouse)*

Jekyll and Hyde (Leonard H. Caddy/Robert Louis Stevenson)*

Joking Apart (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Joseph Andrews (P. M. Clepper/Henry Fielding)*

Journey's End (R. C. Sherriff)*

Jumpers (Tom Stoppard)

Juno and the Paycock (Sean O'Casey)*

Just Between Ourselves (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Just the Three of Us (Simon Gray)

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Kafka's Dick (Alan Bennett)*

Keep an Eye on Amélie (Georges Feydeau/Robert Cogo-Fawcett/Braham Murray)*

Keeping Down with the Joneses (John Chapman/Jeremy Lloyd)

Kennedy's Children (Robert Patrick)

The Kerry Dance (Tony Rushforth)*

Key for Two (John Chapman/Dave Freeman)*

Killers (Adam Pernak)*

The Killing of Sister George (Frank Marcus)*

Killing Time (Richard Stockwell)

Kindly Keep It Covered (Dave Freeman)*

Kindly Leave the Stage (John Chapman)

King Cromwell (Oliver Ford Davies)
Play. M6 F2. A bedchamber. Fee code L

Kingdom of Earth (Tennessee Williams)

The Kingfisher (William Douglas Home)

The Kings of Kilburn High Road (Jimmy Murphy)
Play. M5. A social club interior. Fee code L

Kiss Me Like You Mean It. (Chris Chibnall)
Play. M2 F2. A garden, a flat and rooftop. Fee code K

Kiss of Death. (Simon Williams)
M3 F1. A refurbished lecture room, a dilapidated flat. Fee code L

A Kiss on the Bottom (Frank Vickery)*

The Knack (Ann Jellicoe)

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Laburnum Grove (J.B. Priestley)*

Ladies of Spirit (Georgina Reid)*

Ladies Who Lunch - Tudor Gates*

Lady Audley's Secret, or Death in Lime Tree Walk (Brian J. Burton, based on the novel by Mary Braddon)

The Lady in the Van (Alan Bennett)
M10 F4 (doublling possible). Residential street and house interior. Period Late 20th century. Fee code M

The Lady's Not for Burning (Christopher Fry)

Largo Desolato (Václav Havel/Tom Stoppard)

The Lark (Jean Anouilh/Christopher Fry)

Lark Rise to Candleford (Keith Dewhurst/Flora Thompson)*

The Last Gamble (Bill MacIlwraith)

Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Neil Simon)

Last Tango in Whitby (Mike Harding)*

The Late Christopher Bean (Emlyn Williams)*

The Late Edwina Black (William Dinner and William Morum)

Late Mrs Early (Norman Robbins)*

Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami! (Miles Tredinnick)*

A Laughing Matter (April De Angelis)
M9 F8 (doubling and trebling possible). Various simple settings. Fee code M

Laughing Wild (Christopher Durang)

Laughter in the Dark (Victor Lucas)*

Laying the Ghost (Simon Williams)*

Leave It to Psmith (Ian Hay and P.G. Wodehouse)
M10 F8. 3 interiors, 1 exterior. Fee code L

Lend Me a Tenor (Ken Ludwig)*

Lent (Michael Wilcox)

Lenz (Mike Stott/George Büchner)

Léocadia (Jean Anouilh/Timberlake Wertenbaker)

Lessons and Lovers: D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico (Olwen Wymark)*

Let It Be Me. (Carey Jane Hardy)*
M2 F4. A living-room. Fee code K

A Letter of Resignation (Hugh Whitemore)

Lettice and Lovage (Peter Shaffer)*

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Christopher Hampton)*

The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Martin McDonagh)
M7 F1. Various simple settings. Fee code M

A Life (Hugh Leonard)*

Life After George. (Hannie Rayson)
Play. M2 F4.Various interior and exterior settings. Fee code M.

The Life and Death of Almost Everybody (David Campton)*

Life Goes On (Adrian Hodges)*

A Life in the Theatre (David Mamet)

The Life of Galileo

(Bertolt Brecht/Charles Laughton)
(Bertolt Brecht/Desmond Vesey)
(Bertolt Brecht/Howard Brenton)
(Bertolt Brecht/John Willett)
(Bertolt Brecht/Ralph Manheim/Wolfgang Sauerlander)
(Bertolt Brecht/David Hare)

Life Is A Dream (Calderón de la Barca. Translated by Gwynne Edwards)

Life X 3 (Yasmina Reza. Translated by Christopher Hampton)
Play. M2 F2. A child's voice. A living-room. Fee Code M

The Light of Heart (Emlyn Williams)

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Caryl Churchill)

The Lightning Play (Charlotte Jones)
M4 F4. Front room; various interior and exterior settings. Fee code M

The Lights Are Warm and Coloured (William Norfolk)*

Like a Virgin (Gordon Steel)

The Lion in Winter (James Goldman)*

A Little Hotel on the Side (Georges Feydeau/Maurice Desvallieres/John Mortimer)*

The Little Photographer (Daphne du Maurier/Derek Hoddinott)*

Little Women (Louisa M. Alcott/Peter Clapham)*

Little Women (Louisa M. Alcott/Emma Reeves)
Play. M5 F10 (doubling possible). Minimal set. Fee code L (play), A (music)

Living Quarters (Brian Friel)

Living Together (from The Norman Conquests) (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Local Affairs (Richard Harris)*

The Local Authority (Eduardo de Filippo/Carlo Ardito)

Local Murder (Peter Whalley)*

The London Cuckolds (Edward Ravenscroft/John Byrne)*

London Suite (Neil Simon) (Slightly Restricted)
Play. M3 F3. A hotel suite. fee code M

The Lonesome West (Martin McDonagh)

The Long and the Short and the Tall (Willis Hall)*

Look Back in Anger (John Osborne)*

Look, No Hans! (John Chapman/Michael Pertwee)*

Look Who's Talking (Derek Benfield)*

Loose Ends (Frank Vickery)*

Loot (Joe Orton)

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Constance Cox/Oscar Wilde)*

Lorna Doone (Jill Hyem/R.D. Blackmore)*

The Lost Garden (Colin and Mary Crowther)
Play. M2 F4. In and around a terraced house. Fee code K

Lost in Yonkers (Neil Simon)

Love Forty (Frank Vickery)*

Love From a Stranger )Agatha Christe/Frank Vosper)

Love in the Title (Hugh Leonard)
Play. F3. A meadow. Fee code M

Love of the Nightingale (Timberlake Wertenbaker)

Loved (Olwen Wymark)*

Lovers (Brian Friel)

Lovers Dancing (Charles Dyer)*

The Loves of Cass McGuire (Brian Friel)

Low Level Panic (Clare McIntyre)

Lucky Sods (John Godber)*

The Lunatic View (David Campton)

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Mad Forest (Caryl Churchill)

Madame Melville (Richard Nelson)
M2 F2. A living-room. Fee code M

Made in Bangkok (Anthony Minghella)

A Madhouse in Goa (Martin Sherman)

The Madness of George III (Alan Bennett)

The Magistrate (Arthur Wing Pinero)*

Mahler's Conversion (Ronald Harwood)
Play. M3 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

The Maiden Stone (Rona Munro)

Mail Order Bride (James Robson)*

The Maintenance Man (Richard Harris)*

Make and Break (Michael Frayn)*

Make Way for Lucia (John van Druten, based on the novels by E. F. Benson)*

Making History (Brian Friel)

Making It Better (James Saunders)*

Making Waves (Stephen Clark)
M3 F3. A kitchen, a workshop, a beach. Fee code L

Mammals (Amelia Bullmore)
M2 F4. A kitchen. Fee code L

Man and Boy (Terence Rattigan)
M5 F2. A basement apartment. Fee code M

A Man For All Seasons (Robert Bolt)*

Man is Man (Man Equals Man)

(Bertolt Brecht/Steve Gooch)
(Bertolt Brecht/Carl Mueller)
(Bertolt Brecht/Gerhard Nelhaus)

Man of the Moment (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Mansfield Park (Jane Austen/Willis Hall)*

Map of the Heart (William Nicholson)*

Marking Time (Michael Snelgrove)*

Mary Stuart (Schiller/Peter Oswald)

Maskerade (Terry Pratchett/adapt. by Stephen Briggs)*

Massage (Michael Wilcox)

The Matchmaker (Thornton Wilder)

The Maths Tutor (Clare McIntyre)
M4 F2. A kitchen, various other simple settings. Fee code M

Me and Mamie O'Rourke (Mary Agnes Donoghue)*

Me and My Friend (Gillian Plowman)*

Medea (Euripides/Alistair Elliot)

The Memory of Water (Shelagh Stephenson)

Men of the World (John Godber)
M2 F1 play 18 characters. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Men of the World (John Godber)*
M2 F1 play 18 characters. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Men Should Weep (Ena Lamont Stewart)

The Mercy Seat (Neil LaBute)
Play. M1 F1. A spacious loft apartment. Fee code M

Messiah (Martin Sherman)

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More (Tennessee Williams)

Mindgame (Anthony Horowitz)
Play. M2 F1. An office. Fee code M

The Miracle Worker (William Gibson)

The Misanthrope (Martin Crimp)
Comedy. M6 F3. Hotel, other simple settings. Fee code M

The Misanthrope (Molière/Tony Harrison)*

The Miser (Molière/Miles Malleson)*

Les Misérables (Jonathan Holloway, adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo)

Misery (Stephen King/Simon Moore)

Misha's Party (Richard Nelson/Alexander Gelman)

Miss Roach's War (Adapted by Richard Kane from The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton)*

Mistero Buffo. (Dario Fo. Translated by Ed Emery)

Mixed Doubles (Alan Ayckbourn, John Bowen, Lyndon Brook, David Campton, George Melly, Alun Owen, Harold Pinter, James Saunders, Fay Weldon)*

Mixed Feelings (Donald Churchill)

Moment of Weakness (Donald Churchill)

A Month in the Country

(Brian Friel/Ivan Turgenev)
(Ivan Turgenev/Emlyn Williams)

A Month of Sundays (Bob Larbey)

Moonlight (Harold Pinter)

The Morning Star (Emlyn Williams)

The Mother (Bertolt Brecht/Steve Gooch)

Mother Courage and her Children

(Bertolt Brecht/John Willett)
(Bertolt Brecht/Eric Bentley)
(Bertolt Brecht/Ralph Mannheim)
(Bertolt Brecht/Hanif Kureishi)
(Bertolt Brecht/David Hare)
(Bertolt Brecht/Lee Hall)

Moving (Hugh Leonard)*

Mr Puntila and his Man Matti

(Bertolt Brecht/John Willett)
(Bertolt Brecht/Paul Kriwaczek)
(Bertolt Brecht/Gerhard Nelhaus)
(Bertolt Brecht/Lee Hall)

Mr Quigley's Revenge (Simon Brett)*

Mr Whatnot (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Mr Wonderful (James Robson)*

Mrs Klein (Nicholas Wright)

Murder at Rutherford House (Tom Chiodo and Peter DePietro)

Murder by Appointment (Frank Williams)*

Murder by Misadventure (Edward Taylor)*

Murder by the Book (Duncan Greenwood/Robert King)*

The Murder Game (Constance Cox)*

A Murder Has Been Arranged (Emlyn Williams)*

Murder in Company (Philip King/John Boland)*

Murder in Mind (Terence Feely)*

Murder in Neighbourhood Watch (Stewart Burke)*

Murder in Play (Simon Brett)*

A Murder Is Announced (Agatha Christie/Leslie Darbon)*

The Murder of Maria Marten or The Red Barn (Brian J. Burton)

Murder on the Nile (Agatha Christie)*

The Murder Room (Jack Sharkey)

Murder Weekend (Bettine Manktelow)*
M3 F6. A country hotel reception area. Fee code L

Murder with Love (Francis Durbridge)*

Murderer (Anthony Shaffer)*

Murmering Judges (David Hare)

My Brilliant Divorce (Geraldine Aron)
Play. F1 (M3 F2 recorded voices). Simple set. Fee code M

My Cousin Rachel (Daphne du Maurier/Diana Morgan)*

My Fat Friend (Charles Laurence)
Comedy. M3 F1. A flat. Fee code K

My Friend Miss Flint (Peter Yeldham/Donald Churchill)*

My Heart's a Suitcase (Clare McIntyre)

My Mother Said I Never Should (Charlotte Keatley)*

My Own Show (Lesley Bruce)
Play. M1 F4. A living-room. Fee code L

My Sister in this House (Wendy Kesselman)

My Three Angels (Sam and Bella Spewack)*

My Zinc Bed (David Hare)
Play. M2 F1. A bare stage with only suggestions of settings. Fee code M

The Mysteries (Tony Harrison)

The Mysterious Mr Love (Karoline Leach)

Mystery at Greenfingers (J.B. Priestley)*

The Mystery of Irma Vep (Charles Ludlam)

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