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Imagine being him. Every day you wake up. Youre tired. Your body doesnt work properly You said it youd kill yourself.Two teenagers sneak into an old mans home for a secret meeting. A young couple try to build their future whilst looking after an ailing parent. A care home offers its residents the opportunity to unburden their children.James Fritzs play The Fall takes a funny, moving and candid look at young peoples relationships to older people, confronting the frightening prospect of ageing in a country undergoing crises of housing and care.It was commissioned and premiered by the National Youth Theatre at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2016, and revived at Southwark Playhouse in 2018.

I know my boy. Id know if something had happened to him.Maddy and Rory are devoted parents to three-year-old Joshua, committed to keeping him happy and safe. But when an everyday visit to a supermarket cafe turns into a far more troubling incident, their trust in those closest to them is shattered.Gut is a taut psychological thriller that asks: who can be trusted with our children and is it more dangerous not to trust at all?Gut was first produced at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in association with the National Theatre of Scotland, in 2018. It was directed by Zinnie Harris.It went on to win Best Play at the 2019 Writers Guild Awards.

A rich selection of work by leading playwright Nicholas Wright, introduced by the playwright.The plays contained in this volume are:The Custom of the CountryAn early play, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1983, transposing John Fletcher and Philip Massingers bawdy Jacobean drama to 1890s Johannesburg.The Desert Air A wartime comedy set in Cairo in the 1940s, first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1985.Mrs Klein A play about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships, first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 1988. One Fine Day A comedy about the gulf that separates Britain and Africa, premiered at the Riverside Studios, London, in 1980.Treetops Set in Cape Town in 1952, Nicholas Wrights debut play is about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation. It was first staged at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1978, winning the George Devine Award for playwriting.

An urgent exposé of the realities behind the international call centre.Your credit card is maxed out, and you hang up the phone on Ross chasing your payments. But Ross is actually Roshan and though the sun is shining for you its past midnight in his window-less call centre. With a new accent and invented back story, bright young graduates in India are renamed and rebranded as they work to claw back the cash spent by Americans crippled by debt.Anupama Chandrasekhars play Disconnect was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2010.

Two plays showcasing the exciting and distinctive voice of Josh Azouz.Buggy Baby is a horror comedy about trying to build a normal life when nothing about life is normal.Jaden, Nur and baby Aya have escaped another country and ended up in a rotting room in London. While Nur is at college, Jaden chews leaves and has visions of giant rabbits with burning red eyes. He thinks Aya is someone else, someone dangerous. But shes just a baby. Isnt she?The Mikvah Project is a playful and poignant play about two men who meet every Friday in a north-west London Mikvah, a traditional Jewish pool used for ritual cleansing.Avi is married but childless. Eitans voice is breaking and hes having wet dreams. At the Mikvah they talk about football, the synagogue choir, women. And as their bond deepens, a transformation beginsBoth plays premiered at The Yard, London: Buggy Baby in 2018, directed by Ned Bennett, and The Mikvah Project in 2015, directed by the theatres Artistic Director, Jay Miller.

You have to want to be here, wouldnt you say. It has to be a choice you make yourself. Otherwise theres no dedication. No heart.In an apartment somewhere in Dublin, May and Caitlin are on a mission to take back the looking. Up here, away from the prying, away from the eyes, they watch over the girls. They could take over the world if they wanted to but they probably wont.A darkly comic, claustrophobic tale of voyeurism and sexual politics, Jodi Grays play Peep premiered at Bewleys Cafe Theatre, Dublin, in February 2018. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Stewart Parker Trust Award.

Marley was dead: to begin withOne ghostly Christmas night, coldhearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge gets the fright of his life, discovers the truth about himself, and learns to love his neighbour.This adaptation by David Edgar of the Charles Dickens classic one of the best-loved stories ever written rediscovers the social conscience of the timeless tale.It was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon for Christmas 2017, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh. The smash-hit, critically acclaimed production was revived in 2018, and again in 2022, with Adrian Edmondson in the role of Scrooge.

Were not here forever. Youve got to take a chance from time to time. Sometimes youve got to see something you like and grab hold. Dont let it go.Harry feels like life is beginning to tick down, his autumn years spent quietly caring for the community he loves. Denise thinks life begins in retirement and shes dancing like shes still at high school.When their paths cross at the village hall, their understanding of the time they have left changes irrevocably. What do community, growing old, and falling in love really mean? And who gets to decide anyway?Stewart Pringles play Trestle tenderly but truthfully explores love and ageing, asking how we choose to live in the face of soaring life expectancies. It won the 2017 Papatango New Writing Prize and premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in November 2017.

Two plays by award-winning writer James Fritz, each asking urgent, pointed and complex questions of the times we live in.Ideal for schools, youth theatres and amateur companies to perform, these versatile and incisive plays demonstrate an innovative playwright at the top of his craft.In Comment Is Free, a journalist forms the centre of a devastating media storm. After being staged by Old Vic New Voices in 2015, the version published here was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016, winning both the Tinniswood and Imison Awards for Audio Drama.Start Swimming is a play about occupation, revolution and what the future holds for todays youth. One step away from disaster, theres only one thing left to do: start swimming. First staged by the Young Vic Taking Part department, Start Swimming was also performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017.

Its England really, isnt it? A climate without cloud and rain isnt honest.In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope.Mike Bartletts play Albion was premiered in October 2017 at the Almeida Theatre, London, in a production directed by Rupert Goold. It was revived at the Almeida in February 2020.

A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love.Ramona is sixteen, hates bananas, and shes totally cool. Honestly. Shes completely cool.Its 1998, and Ramona, of Englandshire, is on a wet, midge-riddled geography field trip, deep in the Scottish Highlands. There she meets Jim, a local laddie obsessed with hermit crabs, rock erosion and spider plants.When Ramona falls for Jims awkward charm, she gets caught in a scandal that will haunt her for years to come.Sophie Wus Ramona Tells Jim was commissioned by and first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in September 2017.

Millions of people cycle to work every day. And every week, some of them dont make it home.One Tuesday morning, Isabelle packs her lunch box into her pannier, kisses her young daughter goodbye, and sets off on her bike through Hackney. What happens along the way is at once shocking, inconceivable, and terrifyingly ordinary.Based on a true story, The White Bike is an affecting play about what happens when our world is turned upside down. It was premiered in 2017 at The Space, London, in a production directed by Lily McLeish.Tamara von Werthern is the founder and producer of Fizzy Sherbet, a new-writing initiative for women writers from across the world. This edition also includes her short plays Baby Dolls and The Village Church.

Know what? If youre a Kanye West fan, youre not a fan of me youre a fan of yourself.Annies not really a fan of herself. But what if everyone thought she was someone else? Someone different. Someone better.Sam Steiners Kanye the First is a dazzlingly funny and original drama about identity, guilt, contemporary culture and the second coming of Kanye West. It was first performed as part of HighTide Festival 2017, in a co-production between HighTide and Paul Jellis, in association with The Marlowe and The North Wall.

A brand-new ancient-history play in verse that tells the story of one of Britains most iconic women: a queen, a warrior and a rebel.Id rather walk in blood than walk a slave For he your Emperor!AD 61, Britannia. On the furthest outreaches of the Roman Empire at the very edge of the known world rebellion is brewing.The King of the Iceni has died and his widow, Boudica, has tried to claim her rightful throne. For her insolence in defying Rome, the queen has been flogged, her daughters have been raped, and they have been banished from their homeland. But now, Queen Boudica has returned. And this time she has an army.She will have revenge. She will have blood. She will make Rome quake in fear.Boudica by Tristan Bernays premiered at Shakespeares Globe, London, in September 2017.

A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. Thats what happens when youre best friends forever.But when Lorna gets a place at university, and Grace gets pregnant, they suddenly find themselves in starkly different worlds. Can anything bridge the gap between them?Elinor Cooks play Out of Love was first produced in 2017 by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, in a co-production with Theatr Clywd and the Orange Tree Theatre. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

I used to be scared of them. They seemed so different. They dont scare me any more. Theyre just children, arent they? Just children.January 1941. A terrible crime is taking place in a clinic for disabled children. The perpetrators argue that it will help struggling parents and lift the financial burden on the mighty German state. One brave voice is raised in objection. But will the doctor listen?A moving examination of a terrifying moral dilemma, and a powerful story that shows what it takes for humanity and decency to be restored in a world that has abandoned them.First produced by Tara Finney Productions, Stephen Unwins debut play All Our Children premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2017.

Its not always all about you.Three couples. What might be. What once was. What could have been.debbie tucker greens play premiered in February 2017 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, in a production directed by the playwright.

Its 1979, rubbish is on the streets of Bristol, and its tricky being Fiz. Shes thirteen, shes got no money, her sisters pregnant and her mum thinks shes a waste of space...Rick remembers what its like to be a teenager. So he thinks it wont take much to get a bunch of kids to help him build a playground out of junk.Hes wrong. It takes everything hes got. But when its finished, its going to be something. Its going to be everything...Jack Thornes honest and witty Junkyard, with music by Stephen Warbeck, premiered in 2017 in a co-production between Headlong, Bristol Old Vic, Rose Theatre Kingston and Theatr Clwyd, and directed by Jeremy Herrin.

Three timely one-act plays set in war-torn Syria and Iraq, by one of our best new playwrights (The Times), featuring the epic and bloody adventures of an Iraqi translator, a London schoolgirl and a crackshot sniper..The Collector is a tale of creeping darkness, set during the Coalitions occupation of Iraq, as a team of prison guards become brutalised by war. Outstanding new writing first class (Scotsman)Echoes is a bloody story of colonialism ancient and modern and the rhyme of history, drawing astonishing parallels between the lives of a Jihadi bride and a Victorian pioneer. A dark and daring look at colonial cruelty hugely impressive (Guardian)Angel is set in a Syrian town, where the apparently indestructible Angel of Kobane a crackshot sniper with a hundred kills to her name is all that stands between the towns citizens and the fearsome approach of ISIS. War reportage at its best and great theatre (The Times)All three plays premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe between 2014 and 2016, and have subsequently toured the UK and globally, including runs in London, around Australia and at New Yorks 59E59 Theaters. They have won eleven major international fringe awards, including several Fringe Firsts, and Angel was one of The Times Top 10 Best Plays of 2016.

A sensitive, delicate and powerful play that asks what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you.I dreamt about this last night. I dreamt that I was packing boxes in boxes in boxes.Tamsin packs boxes in a warehouse, on the clock, to a target, with a zero-hour contract. Her brother Dean is housebound, working to obsessive-compulsive rituals of his own.When Dean is declared fit for work, their benefits are cut. There are phone calls to make, appeals to lodge and endless forms to fill in. Tamsin must pack faster, work harder, and fight to get the support she and her brother so desperately need.Katherine Sopers play Wish List won the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and was co-produced by the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, and the Royal Court Theatre, London. It premiered at the Royal Exchange in September 2016 and the Royal Court in January 2017, and Katherine Soper was named Best Writer in the 2017 Stage Debut Awards.The play has such eloquence, such quiet craft, such dignity and such compassion Sir Nicholas Hytner