Our plays from 2020 onwards
by Shaun McKenna from a screenplay by Charles Dance. Director Stephanie Daly-Parks After a huge storm a young man’s body is washed up on the beach below the cottage where elderly sisters Janet and Ursula have lived all their lives.…
By Fionnuala Kennedy Directed by Georgia Douglas-Brown. Hunt is about a group of teenagers playing their version of hide and seek. Their version entails 'borrowing' objects from their neighbours back gardens, and 'dumping' them at the 'box' without being caught,…
Directed by James Last. Ben Hur is renowned as both a great classic book and one of the greatest blockbuster films of all time. Now this epic tale of love, betrayal, danger and redemption is brought to the stage by…
Written and Directed by Morgan Sweeney. Music Written and Directed by Brian Melville. A full-blown musical play with 12 new songs, a 6-piece Band, a cast of 20, and 10 singers in a Gospel Choir. A very brief moment of…
An American, an Englishman and an Irish man are held captive by terrorists in Beirut. Their national biases and prejudices are intensified by their cramped confinement. Over time resentments and recriminations give way to acknowledgements to their character strengths and…
A mysterious and bewitching short play from Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem, Mojo). All is not as it first seems when a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly fishing since he…
Directed by Georgia Douglas-Brown A group of teens gather to take their French exam but none of them will step into the exam hall. Because Kyle has had a vision and he’ll use anything, even miracles, to ensure his classmates…
by Amelia Bullmore Amelia Bullmore’s funny, touching play about three very different women was previously produced as a wonderful rehearsed reading at the Theatre Royal in 2017. From its opening scene, at a northern university’s hall of residence during the…
by Alison Carr Theatre Royal Youth will be performing Tuesday, by Alison Carr, as part of National Theatre Connections – a nationwide celebration of new plays for young people. Tuesday is one of ten brand new plays written especially for…