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Section A Full Length Plays n-z

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)

 

| N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z |

 

Click here for full length play titles A-M

 

An asterisk denotes that Samuel French Ltd is the publisher.

N

Nabokov's Gloves. (Peter Moffat)*
M3 F3. Various locations on an open stage. Fee code L

Nana (Olwen Wymark/Emile Zola)

Napoli Milionaria (Eduardo de Filippo/Peter Tinniswood)

The National Health or Nurse Norton's Affair (Peter Nichols)

Natural Causes (Eric Chappell)*

Never Land (Phyllis Nagy)

Never the Sinner (John Logan) (Available with certain restrictions)

Neville's Island (Tim Firth)*

New Anatomies (Timberlake Wertenbaker)

New England (Richard Nelson)

Next Time I'll Sing to You (James Saunders)

Night and Day (Tom Stoppard)*

Night Must Fall (Emlyn Williams)*

The Night of the Iguana (Tennessee Williams)

A Night on the Tiles (Frank Vickery)*

The Night Season (Rebecca Lenkiewicz)
M3 F4. Simple settings. Fee code L

Night Watch (Lucille Fletcher)

Nightmare (Norman Robbins)*

Nightmare-The Fright of Your Life (Roger S. Moss)*

Nil By Mouth (John Chapman)*
M6 F7. Mixed hospital ward. Fee code L

No Love Lost (Rony Robinson)*

No Man's Land (Harold Pinter)
M4. A living-room. Fee code M

No More Sitting on the Old School Bench (Alan Bleasdale)

No One Sees the Video (Martin Crimp)

No Sex Please, We're British (Anthony Marriott/Alistair Foot)*

No Time for Fig Leaves (Duncan Greenwood/Robert King)*

Nobody's Fool (Simon Williams)*
Comedy. M2 F3. A living-room and basement study. Fee code L

Nobody's Perfect (Simon Williams)*
M2 F2. 1 M or F extra. A flat, an office. Fee code L

Noises Off (Michael Frayn)*
M6 F4. A living-room stage set, backstage behind the set. Fee code M

The Normal Heart (Larry Kramer)

The Norman Conquests (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Northanger Abbey (Matthew Francis/Jane Austen)

Not About Heroes (Stephen MacDonald)

Not About Nightingales (Tennessee Williams)

Not Quite Jerusalem (Paul Kember)*

Not with a Bang (Mike Harding)*

Now You Know (Michael Frayn)*

Nude with Violin (Noël Coward)

A Number (Caryl Churchill)
Play. M2. Simple setting. Fee code F

Number One (Jean Anouilh/Michael Frayn)*


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O

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Frank McGuinness)

The Odd Couple (Neil Simon)

The Odd Couple (Female version) (Neil Simon)

The Odd Women (Michael Meyer/George Gissing)*

Off the Hook (Derek Benfield)*

Office Suite (Alan Bennett)*

The Old Country (Alan Bennett)*

The Old Masters (Simon Gray)
M3 F2. A garden, a library. Period 1937. Fee code M

Old TImes (Harold Pinter)

Old-World (Aleksei Arbuzov/Ariadne Nicolaeff)*

Oliver Twist (play) (Charles Dickens/Jeremy Brock)*

On Approval (Frederick Lonsdale)*

On Monday Next (Philip King)*

On the Razzle (Tom Stoppard/Johann Nestroy)

On the Shore of the Wide World (Simon Stephens)
M6 F4. Composite set. Fee code M

On the Verge, or, the Geography of Yearning (Eric Overmyer)*

Once a Catholic (Mary O'Malley)

Once in a Lifetime (Moss Hart/George S. Kaufman)

One Fine Day (Dennis Lumborg)*

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Dale Wasserman/Ken Kesey)

One for the Road (Willy Russell)*

One Last Card Trick (Stewart Permutt)*
Comedy. F4. A club room. Fee code L

One O'Clock from the House (Frank Vickery)*

One Way Pendulum (N. F. Simpson)*

The Opposite Sex (David Tristram)

Orphans (Lyle Kessler)

Orpheus Descending (Tennessee Williams)

Other Hands (Laura Wade)
Play. M2 F2. Various simple settings. Fee code L

Other People's Money (Jerry Sterner)

Otherwise Engaged (Simon Gray)*

Our Boys (Jonathan Lewis)*

Our Country's Good (Timberlake Wertenbaker/Thomas Keneally)

Our Song (Keith Waterhouse)*

Our Town (Thornton Wilder)

Out of Order (Ray Cooney)*

Out of Sight ... Out of Murder (Fred Carmichael)

Outside Edge (Richard Harris)*

Outward Bound (Sutton Vane)*

Over My Dead Body (Derek Benfield)
Comedy. M2 F4. A drawing-room. Fee code L

Over the Moon (Ken Ludwig)
Comedy. M4 F4. On stage and backstage. Fee code M

Owl and the Pussycat (Bill Manhoff)

 

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P

Pack of Lies (Hugh Whitemore)*

Paddywack (Daniel Magee)

Pains of Youth (Ferdinand Bruckner/Daphne Moore)

Painting Churches (Tina Howe)

Panic Stations (Derek Benfield)*

The Parasol (Anton Chekhov. Adapted from the novel Three Years by Frank Dunai)*

Pardon Me, Prime Minister (John Graham/Edward Taylor)*

Party Piece (Richard Harris)*

A Party to Murder (Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes)

A Passage to India (E.M. Forster, adapted for the stage by Martin Sherman)
M14 F4, may be played by M8 F3. Extras. Various settings. Fee code L

Passing-Out Parade (Anne Valery)

Passion Killers (John Godber)*

A Passionate Woman (Kay Mellor)*

Passing-Out Parade (Anne Valery)*

Pastimes (Brian Jeffries)*

Patrick Pearse Motel (Hugh Leonard)*

Peer Gynt (Henrik Ibsen/Christopher Fry/Johan Fillinger)

Peggy for You (Alan Plater)
Play. M3 F2. Two office rooms. Fee code M

The Perfect Party (A. R. Gurney)

Perfect Pitch (John Godber)

Perfect Wedding (Robin Hawdon)
Comedy. M2 F4. A hotel honeymoon suite. Fee code M

Period of Adjustment (Tennessee Williams)

The Petition (Brian Clark)

Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Brian Friel)

The Philanthropist (Christopher Hampton)*

The Physicists (Friedrich Dürrenmatt/James Kirkup)*

Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Steve Martin) (Available in the British Isles only)

Pickwick Papers (Lynn Brittney, adapt. from the novel by Charles Dickens)*

The Picture of Dorian Gray (John Osborne/Oscar Wilde)

Pictures of Clay* (Sharif Samad)
M2 F4. Various simple settings. Fee code K

A Piece of My Mind (Peter Nichols)*

The Pied Piper (Peter Terson)*

Pillars of the Community (Henrik Ibsen/Samuel Adamson)
Play. M11 F9. A living-room and terrace. Period 1870s. Fee code M

Pinocchio (John Morley)*

Pizzazz (Hugh Leonard)*

Play It Again, Sam (Woody Allen)

Play On! (Rick Abbot)

Play with Repeats (Martin Crimp)
Play. M3 F3. A pub, a laundrette, a bus stop. Fee code M

Playhouse Creatures (April de Angelis)*

Playing Sinatra (Bernard Kops)*

Playing the Wife (Ronald Hayman)*

Plaza Suite (Neil Simon)

The Plough and the Stars (Sean O'Casey)*

The Pocket Dream (Elly Brewer/Sandi Toksvig)*

Popcorn (Ben Elton)

The Pope and the Witch (Dario Fo/Franca Rame/Ed Emery)

Portrait of Fear (Edward Taylor)
M3 F2. A room in a tower. Fee code M. ISBN 0 573 11583 4

The Positive Hour (April de Angelis)

Post Horn Gallop (Derek Benfield)*

The Power of the Dog (Ellen Dryden)

Pratt of the Argus (Michael Birch/David Nobbs)

Present from the Past (Richard Everett)*

Present Laughter (Noël Coward)*

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Jay Presson Allen)

Prin (Andrew Davies)*

Princess Ascending (Norman Holland)*

The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Neil Simon)

The Prisoner of Zenda (Matthew Francis/Anthony Hope)*

Private Fears in Public Places (Alan Ayckbourn)
M3 F3, 1 male voice. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Private Lives (Noël Coward)*

Privates on Parade (Peter Nichols)*

The Prodigious Snob (Molière/Miles Malleson)*

Progress (Doug Lucie)

The Promise (Alexei Arbuzov/Ariadne Nicolaeff)

Proof (David Auburn)
M2 F2. The back porch of a Chicago house. Fee code M

Proscenophobia (Bettine Manketelow)

Pull the Other One (Norman Robbins)*

Pullin' the Wool (Frank Vickery)*
Comedy. M3 F3 with doubling. Composite set: 2 living-rooms. Fee code M

Pyranees (David Greig)
M2 F2. The terrace of a mountain hotel. Fee code L

 

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Q

The Quare Fellow (Brendan Behan)

Quartermaine's Terms (Simon Gray)*

Quartet (Ronald Harwood)

 

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R

Racing Demon (David Hare)*

The Ramayana (Peter Oswald)

Rattle of a Simple Man (Charles Dyer)*

Real Estate (Louise Page)

The Real Story of Puss in Boots (David Foxton)*

The Real Thing (Tom Stoppard)*

Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)*

Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier/Clifford Williams)*

Recipe for Murder (J. D. Robins)*
M2 F2. A sitting-room. Fee code K

The Red Devil Battery Sign (Tennessee Williams)

Red in the Morning (Glyn Jones)

Redevelopment (Václav Havel/James Saunders)

The Rehearsal, or Love Punished (Jean Anouilh/Jeremy Sams)

Relative Values (Noël Coward)*

Relatively Speaking (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Remembrance (Graham Reid)

Rents (Michael Wilcox)

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

(Bertolt Brecht/Ralph Manheim)
(Bertolt Brecht/George Tabori)
(Bertolt Brecht/Ranjit Bolt)

Respecting Your Piers (Peter Quilter)*

The Restless Evil (Charlotte Hastings)*

Retreat (James Saunders)

Retreat from Moscow (Don Taylor)

The Revengers' Comedies (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Ring Round The Moon (Jean Anouilh/Christopher Fry)*

The Ring Sisters (Charles Laurence)

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Jim Cartwright)*

Rising Damp (Eric Chappell)
Comedy. M3 F1. An attic flat. Fee code K

The Rivals (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)*

Road (Jim Cartwright)*

The Road to the Sea (Don Taylor)
M2 F2. Various simple settings. Fee code L

Robin Hood (Larry Blamire)

Robin Hood (David Wood/Dave and Toni Arthur)*

Robin Hood: The Truth Behind the Green Tights (David Neilson)*

Robin Redbreast (John Bowen)

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

Romantic Comedy (Bernard Slade)

La Ronde (Arthur Schnitzler/Eric Bentley)

Rookery Nook (Ben Travers)*

Roots (Arnold Wesker)*

Roots and Wings (Frank Vickery)*

Rope (Patrick Hamilton)
M6 (young, 20s, old) F2 (young, 50). A study. Fee code M

Rose (Martin Sherman)
Play. F1. Simple settings. Fee code L

The Rose Tattoo (Tennessee Williams)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)*

The Roses of Eyam (Don Taylor)*

Rough Crossing (Tom Stoppard/Ferenc Molnar)

Rough Justice (Terence Frisby)*

Round and Round the Garden (from The Norman Conquests) (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Roundheads and Peakheads (Rich and Rich)

(Bertolt Brecht/N. Goold-Verschoyle)
(Bertolt Brecht/Alan Brown/Kyra Dietz)

Round Heads and Pointed Heads or Money Calls to Money (Bertolt Brecht/Tom Kuhn)
M12 F6. Extras. Various settings. Fee code M for play, code C for music

The Royal Baccarat Scandal (Royce Ryton)*

The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Peter Shaffer)*

The Ruffian on the Stair (Joe Orton)

Rumours (the Brtitish version) (Neil Simon)*

Rumpelstiltskin (Norman Robbins)*

Run For Your Wife (Ray Cooney)*

A Russian in the Woods (Peter Whelan)
M7 F1. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Rutherford and Son (Githa Sowerby)

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S

Sad Hotel (David Foley)

The Safari Party (Tim Firth)
M3 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Sailor Beware! (Philip King/Falkland L. Cary)*

Salt of the Earth (John Godber)*

Same Old Moon (Geraldine Aron)*

Same Time, Next Year (Bernard Slade)

The Samson Riddle (Wolf Mankowitz)
Play. M17 F6. Extras. Can be played by M5 F2 with doubling. Fee code L

Sand Castles (Bob Labey)

Sarcophagus (Vladimir Gubaryev/Michael Glenny)

Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Eduardo de Filippo/Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)

Savages (Christopher Hampton)

Say Who You Are (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)

Scapino! (Frank Dunlop/Jim Dale/Molière)

The Scarlet Letter (Phyllis Nagy/Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (Beverley Cross/Baroness Orczy)*

A Scent of Flowers (James Saunders)

The School for Wives (Molière/Miles Malleson)*

Schweyk in the Second World War

(Bertolt Brecht/William Rowlinson)
(Bertolt Brecht/Susan Davies)

The Scottish Play (Graham Holliday)*

The Sea (Edward Bond)

The Seagull

(Anton Chekhov/Michael Frayn)
(Anton Chekhov/David Iliffe)*
(Anton Chekhov/Mike Poulton)
(Anton Chekhov/Tom Stoppard)

The Seagull (Martin Crimp)
Play. M7 F4. A terrace, a corridor, a dining-room. Period Late 19th century. Fee code M

Season's Greetings (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Second from Last in the Sack Race (Michael Birch/David Nobbs)*

The Second Mrs Tanqueray (Arthur W. Pinero)*

Second Time Around (Derek Benfield)*

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 (Sue Townsend)

The Secret Lives of Henry and Alice (David Tristram)

The Secret Rapture (David Hare)*

The Secretary Bird (William Douglas Home)*

See How They Run (Philip King)*

Semi-Detached (David Turner)*

Sense and Sensibility (Roger Parsley/Andy Graham/Jane Austen)*

Separate Tables (Terence Rattigan)*

Separation (Tom Kempinski)*

September in the Rain (John Godber)

September Tide (Daphne du Maurier/Mark Rayment)*

Serious Money (Caryl Churchill)*

The Servant of Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni/David Turner/Paul Lapworth)*

A Servant to Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni/Lee Hall)
Play. M6 F3. 4M extras. Various simple settings. Fee code M

sex, drugs & rick 'n' noel (David Tristram)
M3 F2. Various simple settings. Fee code L

Shadow of a Gunman (Sean O'Casey)

Shadowlands (William Nicholson)*

The Shape of Things (Neil Labute)
M2 F2. Various simple settings. Fee code M

She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)*

She Was Only an Admiral's Daughter (Harold Brooke/Kay Bannerman)*

The Shell Seekers (Terence Brady/Charlotte Bingham/Rosamunde Pilcher)
Play. M6 F6, or M5 F5 with doubling. Various simple settings. Period Second World War to present. Fee code M

Shirley Valentine (Willy Russell)*

Shock! (Brian Clemens)*

Shock Tactics (John Dole)

Shut Your Eyes and Think of England (John Chapman/Anthony Marriott)*

Silas Marner (George Eliot/Geoffrey Beevers)

Silhouette (Simon Brett)*

Silly Cow (Ben Elton)*

Sing On! (Rick Abbot)

SIng Yer Heart Out for the Lads (Roy Williams)
M12 F2. A pub. Fee code L

Single Spies (Alan Bennett)*

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and The Actor's Nightmare (Christopher Durang)

The Sisterhood (R. R. Bolt/Molière)*

Sisterly Feelings (Alan Ayckbourn)*

The Sisters Rosensweig (Wendy Wasserstein)*

Situation Comedy (Johnnie Mortimer/Brian Cooke)

Ski Whizz (Richard Ingham)*

The Skin of Our Teeth (Thornton Wilder)

Skirmishes (Catherine Hayes)

A Skull in Connemara (Martin McDonagh)

Skylight (David Hare)

Slapstick Tragedy (Tennessee Williams)

The Sleeping Prince (Terence Rattigan)*

Sleuth (Anthony Shaffer)

A Slight Hangover (Ian Ogilvy)

Small Change (Peter Gill)*

Small Craft Warnings (Tennessee Williams)

A Small Family Business (Alan Ayckbourn)*

The Small Hours (Francis Durbridge)*

Smelling a Rat (Mike Leigh)

Snake in the Grass (Alan Ayckbourn)
Play. F3. A garden. Fee code M

The Sneeze (Anton Chekhov/Michael Frayn)

So Long Life (Peter Nichols)
Play. M2 F4. A living-room. Fee code M

So What Do We Do About Henry? (Charlotte Hastings)*

The Soft September Air (Charlotte Hastings)*

Some Sunny Day (Martin Sherman)

Someone Waiting (Emlyn Williams)

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Frank McGuinness)

Something to Remember You By (Jimmie Chinn)*

Son of Man (Dennis Potter)*

Sorry, I Love You ... (John Goodrum)
Play. M2 F1. Various simple interior and exterior settings. Fee code L

Spanish Lies (Frank Vickery)*

Speed-the-Plow (David Mamet)

Spider's Web (Agatha Christie)*

Spokesong (Stewart Parke)

Spoonface Steinberg (Lee Hall)

Spring 1600 (Emlyn Williams)

Spring and Port Wine (Bill Naughton)*

St Joan of the Stockyards (Bertolt Brecht/Frank Jones)

Stage Struck (Simon Gray)*

Stages (David Storey)

Stags and Hens (Willy Russell)*

Staircase (Charles Dyer)*

Starr Quality (Noël Coward/Christopher Luscombe)

The Star-Spangled Girl (Neil Simon)

A State of Affairs (Graham Swannell)

Steaming (Nell Dunn)

Steel Magnolias (Robert Harling)*

Stepping Out (Richard Harris)*

Stevie (Hugh Whitemore)*

Steward of Christendom (Sebastian Barry) (Restricted availability)

A Sting in the Tale (Brian Clemens/Dennis Spooner)*

Straight and Narrow (Jimmie Chinn)*

The Straits (Gregory Burke)
Play. M3 F1. Various simple settings. Fee code L

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (David Edgar/Robert Louis Stevenson)

The Strangeness of Others (Nick Ward)

Strangers on a Train (Craig Warner, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith)*
Play. 5M 2F. Various interior and exterior settings. Fee code L

A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)

Strictly Murder (Brian Clemens)
Thriller. F3 M2. A rustic cottage in Provence. Period 1939. Fee code M

Strike Up the Banns (Olwen Wymark)*

Strippers (Peter Terson)*

Suburb of Babylon (Hugh Leonard)*

Successful Strategies (Marivaux/Timberlake Wertenbaker)

Suddenly at Home (Francis Durbridge)*

Sufficient Carbohydrate (Dennis Potter)

Sugar Daddies. (Alan Ayckbourn)
M2 F3. An upstairs flat. Fee code M

The Sugar Syndrome (Lucy Prebble)
Play. M2 F2. Non-naturalistic simple settings. Fee code L

The Suicide (Nikolai Erdman/Peter Tegel)

Summer (Hugh Leonard)*

Summer and Smoke (Tennessee Williams)

Summer End (Eric Chappell)*
M1 F4. A bedsitting-room in a retirement home. Fee code M

Summit Conference (Robert David MacDonald)

The Sunshine Boys (Neil Simon)

The Surgeon of Honour (Calderón de la Barca. Translated by Gwynne Edwards)

Suspects (Giles Cole)*

Suspicions (N. J. Crisp)*

Sweeney Todd (C. G. Bond)*

Sweeney Todd the Barber (Brian J. Burton)*

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Austin Rosser)*

Sweet Bird of Youth (Tennessee Williams)

Sweet Panic (Stephen Poliakoff)

Sweet Revenge (Francis Durbridge)*

Sword Against the Sea (Williams Butler Yeats/Arthur Feinsod)
M5 F5. Simple settings. Fee code L

Sylvia's Wedding (Jimmie Chinn)*

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Table Manners (from The Norman Conquests) (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Take Away the Lady (Jimmie Chinn)*

Taking Sides (Ronald Harwood)

Taking Steps (Alan Ayckbourn)*

A Tale of Two Cities

(Charles Dickens/Matthew Francis)*
(Charles Dickens/Mark Fitzgibbons)

The Talented Mr Ripley (Phyllis Nagy/Patricia Highsmith)

Tales from Hollywood (Christopher Hampton)*

Tales of King Arthur (John Chambers)*

The Talking Cure (Christopher Hampton)
Play. M4 F3, 2 girls. Extras. Various settings. Fee code M

Tartuffe

(Molière/Miles Malleson)*
(Molière/Christopher Hampton)

A Taste of Honey (Shelagh Delaney)

Teechers (John Godber)*

Temptation (Václav Havel/George Theiner)

Ten Times Table (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes (Sue Townsend)

Tesla's Letters (Jeffrey Stanley)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Michael Fry/Thomas Hardy)*

Thark (Ben Travers)*

That Good Night (N. J. Crisp)*

Theft (Eric Chappell)*

There Came a Gypsy Riding (Frank McGuinness)
M2 F3. A kitchen with loft above. Fee code M

There's a Girl in My Soup (Terence Frisby)*

They Call It Murder (Bettine Manktelow)*

They Came From Mars ... (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)*

They Came to a City (J. B. Priestley)*

They're Playing Our Song (Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch/Carol Bayer Sagar)

Thickness of Skin (Clare McIntyre)

Thieves' Carnival (Jean Anouilh/Lucienne Hill)

Things We Do for Love (Alan Ayckbourn)

This Happy Breed (Noël Coward)*

Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Timberlake Wertenbaker)

Three Judgements in One (Calderón de la Barca. Translated by Gwynne Edwards)

The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas/Willis Hall)*

Three Sisters

(Anton Chekhov/Samuel Adamson)*
(Anton Chekhov/Michael Frayn)
(Anton Chekhov/Brian Friel)
(Anton Chekhov/Christopher Hampton)*

Three Sisters Two (Reza de Wet)
Play. M3 F6. A nursery. Period 1920. Fee code L

Thyestes (Seneca/Caryl Churchill)

Tilting Ground (Guy Hibbert)*

Time and the Conways (J. B. Priestley)*

Time and Time Again (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Time of My Life (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Time to Kill (Leslie Darbon)*

Time Was (Hugh Leonard)

Tiptoe Through the Tombstones (Norman Robbins)*

Tissue (Louise Page)

To the Green Fields Beyond (Nick Whitby)
Play. M10 F1, A wood. Period 1918. Fee code L.

To Meet Oscar Wilde (Norman Holland)

A Toe in the Water (Derek Benfield)*

Tom and Clem (Stephen Churchett)

Tom and Viv (Michael Hastings)
Play. M3 F3, 1 M or F, with doubling. Voices. Various simple settings. Period 1915-1947. Fee code M

Tom, Dick and Harry (Ray and Michael Cooney)
M6 F3. A flat. Fee code M

Tom Jones (Henry Fielding/Joan Macalpine)*

A Tomb with a View (Norman Robbins)*

Tons of Money (Valentine/Will Evans)*

Tons of Money (revised) (Valentine/Will Evans/Alan Ayckbourn)*

Top Girls (Caryl Churchill)*

Torch Song Trilogy (Harvey Fierstein)

Total Eclipse (Christopher Hampton)

Touch and Go (Derek Benfield)*

A Touch of Danger (Francis Durbridge)*

A Touch of Spring (Samuel Taylor)*

The Tower, [La Tour de Nesle], or Marguerite de Bourgogne (Alexandre Dumas [Père]/Charles Wood)

Translations (Brian Friel)

Traps (Caryl Churchill)

Travels with my Aunt (Giles Havergal/Graham Greene)

Travesties (Tom Stoppard)

Treasure Island (Peter Coe/Josephine Wilson/Bernard Miles/Robert Louis Stevenson)*

Treasure Island (Phil Willmott/Robert Louis Stevenson)*

The Tratment (Martin Crimp)
Play. M6 F4. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Treats (Christopher Hampton)

Trelawny of the "Wells" (Arthur W. Pinero)*

Trespass (Emlyn Williams)

Trivial Pursuits (Frank Vickery)*

The Trojan Women (Euripides/Neil Curry)

The Trouble with Old Lovers (Angela Huth)*

Trumpets and Drums (Bertolt Brecht/Alan Brown/Kyra Dietz)

Trumpets and Raspberries (Dario Fo/R.C. McAvoy/A.M. Giugni)

Turandot

(Bertolt Brecht/Derek Goldby)
(Bertolt Brecht/Stefan Lasch/Evelyn Warman)

The Turn of the Screw (Henry James/Ken Whitmore)*

The Tutor

(Bertolt Brecht/Pip Broughton)
(Bertolt Brecht/Ralph Manheim)
(Bertolt Brecht/John Willett)
(Bertolt Brecht/Geoffrey Skelton)
(Bertolt Brecht/Richard Grunberger)

Twelfth Man (H. Connolly)*

Twelve Angry Men (Reginald Rose)*

Two (Jim Cartwright)

Two and Two Make Sex (Leslie Darbon/Richard Harris)*

Two and Two Together (Derek Benfield)*

Two Into One (Ray Cooney)*

Two of a Kind (Hugh Janes)*

The Two of Us (Michael Frayn)

Two Planks and a Passion (Anthony Minghella)*

Two Thousand Years (Mike Leigh)
Play. M3 F5. A living-room. Fee code M

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Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov/Michael Frayn)

Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov/Brian Friel)

Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov/David Mamet)

Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov/Mike Poulton)

Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas)

Under the Stars (Richard Crane)*

The Understanding (Angela Huth)

The Undertaking (Philip Osment)

Undiscovered Country Tom Stoppard/Arthur Schnitzler)
Play. M16 F11. 2 children and extras. Various simple settings. Period late 19th century. Fee code M

The Unexpected Guest (Agatha Christie)*

The Unexpected Man (Yasmina Reza/Christopher Hampton)
Play. M1 F1. A train compartment. Fee code L

Unleashed (John Godber)*
Play. M3 F2 with doubling. Various simple setings. Fee code M

Unoriginal Sin (David Tristram)

Up and Coming (Eric Chappell)
Comedy. M5 F2. A hotel suite. Fee code M

Up and Running (Derek Benfield)*

Up for Grabs (David Williamson)
Comedy. M3 F4. Various simple settings. Fee code M

Up 'n' Under (John Godber)*

Up 'n' Under II (John Godber)*

US and Them (Tamsin Oglesby)
M4 F3. Various simple settings. Fee code L

 

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V

Valued Friends (Stephen Jeffreys)*

The Vanek Plays (Vàclav Havel/Vera Blackwell)

Vanity Fair (Declan Donnellan, adapted from the
novel by William Makepeace Thackeray)

Venus Observed (Christopher Fry)*

Verdict (Agatha Christie)

Veronica's Room (Ira Levin)*

Victor's Island (Bryan Stocks)

Vieux Carré (Tennessee Williams)

The Village Fête (Peter Tinniswood)*

Vinegar Tom (Caryl Churchill)

The Visions of Simone Machard

(Bertolt Brecht/Hugh and Ellen Rank)
(Bertolt Brecht/Ralph Manheim)

The Visit (Friedrich Durrenmatt/Maurice Valency)

Visiting Hour (Richard Harris)*

Vita & Virginia (Eileen Atkins/Vita Sackville-West/Virginia Woolf)*

Vivat! Vivat Regina! (Robert Bolt)*

A Voyage Round My Father (John Mortimer)*

 

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W

Wait Until Dark (Frederick Knott)*

Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)*

Waiting for Yesterday (Duncan Greenwood)*

Waiting in the Wings (Noël Coward)*

Walk On, Walk On (Willis Hall)*

Waltz of the Toreadors (Jean Anouilh/Lucienne Hill)*

Warrior (Shirley Gee)*

A Warwickshire Testimony (April De Angelis)

Was He Anyone? (N.F. Simpson)

Wasted (Simon Bent)

Watcher in the Shadow (Norman Holland)*

Way Upstream (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Wayward Spirit (Charlotte Hastings)*

We Found Love/Aboard the SS Farndale (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)*

Webster (Robert David MacDonald)

Wedding of the Year (Norman Robbins)*

A Wedding Story (Bryony Lavery)

The Weekend (Michael Palin)

Weekend Breaks (John Godber)*

Whale Music (Anthony Minghella)*

What Are Little Girls Made Of? (Peter Coke)*

What Every Woman Knows (J. M. Barrie)*

What I Did in the Holidays (Philip Osment)*

What the Butler Saw (Joe Orton)

What the Night Is For (Michael Weller)
Play. M1 F1. A hotel room. Fee code M

When Did You Last See Your Trousers? (Ray Galton/JohnAntrobus)*

When I was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout (Sharman Macdonald)

When She Danced (Martin Sherman)*

When the Barbarians Came (Don Taylor)

When the Cat's Away (Johnnie Mortimer/Brian Cooke)

When the Reaper Calls (Peter Colley)
Comedy thriller. M2 F3. A hunting lodge living-room. Fee code M

When the Wind Blows (Raymond Briggs)*

When We Are Married (J. B. Priestley)*

The White Cliffs (Bettine Manktelow)
Play. M2 F5. A bed-sitting-room. Fee code L

Who Dies Wins (Seymour Matthews)*
Comedy-thriller. M4 F3, 1 M or F. A living-room. Fee code L

Who Goes Bare? (Leslie Darbon/Richard Harris)*

Who Saw Him Die? (Tudor Gates)*

Whodunnit (Anthony Shaffer)

Whoops-a-Daisy (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)*

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)

Who's Under Where? (Marcia Kash/Doug Hughes)

Whose Life Is It Anyway? (Brian Clarke)*

Why Me? (Stanley Price)*

Why Not Stay For Breakfast? (Ray Cooney/Gene Stone)*

Widows (Ariel Dorfman, with Tony Kushner)

Wife Begins at Forty (Ray Cooney/Arne Sultan/Earl Barret)*

The Wild Duck (Henrik Ibsen/Christopher Hampton)

Wild Goose Chase (Derek Benfield)*

Wild Honey (Anton Chekhov/Michael Frayn)

Wildest Dreams (Alan Ayckbourn)*

Will You Still Love Me in the Morning? (Brian Clemens/Dennis Spooner)*

Wind in the Willows (Alan Bennett, music by Jeremy Sams)*

The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame/John Morley)*

The Wind of Heaven (Emlyn Williams)*

Wings (Arthur Kopit)

Winner Takes All (Reggie Oliver, adapted from La Main Passe! by Georges Feydeau)

The Winslow Boy (Terence Rattigan)*

Winter Glory (Peter Coke)*

The Winter Guest (Sharman Macdonald)

The Winter Wife (Claire Tomalin)

Without Trace (BrIan Clemens)
Thriller. M4 F2. A hotel lodge. Fee code M

Witness for the Prosecution (Agatha Christie)*

Wolf at the Door (David Walker/Alan Ayckbourn/Henry Becque)*

Woman in Mind (Alan Ayckbourn)*

The Woman in White (Constance Cox/Wilkie Collins)
M6 F5. A drawing-room. Fee code L

The Women (Clare Booth Luce)

Women Laughing (Michael Wall)

Women on the Verge of HRT (Marie Jones)*

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë/Charles Vance)*

 

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Y

The Year After the Fair (Donald Madgwick)*

Yerma (Federico Garcìa Lorca/Peter Luke)

The York Realist (Peter Gill)
M4 F3. Farm labourer's cottage. Fee code M

You Say Tomatoes (Bernard Slade)

You Should See Us Now (Peter Tinniswood)*

 

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Z

Zack (Harold Brighouse)

 

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