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Start Swimming  

Written by

James Fritz

~playauthor~Written by~ James Fritz

Nick Hern Books, 2017

Playtext

Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (0), Unassigned (1)

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...James Fritz's Start Swimming is a play that asks what power young people have to affect change and resist authority. It was developed by the Young Vic Taking Part department, and was first performed in The Clare, Young Vic, London, on 26...

I Caught Crabs in Walberswick  

Written by

Joel Horwood

~playauthor~Written by~ Joel Horwood

Nick Hern Books, 2008

Playtext

Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

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...Joel Horwood's play I Caught Crabs in Walberswick is a drama about teenage hopes, dreams and frustrations in rural East Anglia. It was first performed as part of the HighTide Festival 2008 at The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk on 2 May 2008...

Chaos

Written by

Laura Lomas

~playauthor~Written by~ Laura Lomas

Nick Hern Books, 2021

NHB Modern Plays

Playtext

Scenes: 38

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...Laura Lomas's play Chaos is a play about connection, disconnection, order and chaos.   Written specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered...

The Night Heron

Written by

Jez Butterworth

~playauthor~Written by~ Jez Butterworth

Nick Hern Books, 2002

Playtext

Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (9), Female (1), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

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...A darkly comic play about a group of outcasts gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens, The Night Heron was Jez Butterworth's first play to be staged after his debut, Mojo (Royal Court, 1995). Premiered at the Royal Court on 11 April 2002...

I and You

Written by

Lauren Gunderson

~playauthor~Written by~ Lauren Gunderson

Methuen Drama, 2018

Modern Plays

Playtext

Acts: 3, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

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...Housebound because of illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she has only Instagram and Facebook for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in – uninvited and armed with waffle fries, a scruffy...

The Lives of Women: Alice Trilogy, The Mommo Plays

Nicholas Grene

Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published widely on Shakespeare and on Irish literature. His books include The Politics of Irish Drama (1999), Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays (2002), Yeats’s Poetic Codes (2008) and Home on the Stage (2014). With Chris Morash he is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Theatre of Tom Murphy : Playwright Adventurer

Methuen Drama, 2017

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...The action of a Murphy play is most often worked out within a restricted time period. The tension within the family in Whistle builds to its inevitably tragic conclusion over just two days. The grocer’s assistant, John Joe, must make his...

The Mill: Part IV: Ash

Written by

Damien Atkins

~playauthor~Written by~ Damien Atkins

Playwrights Canada Press, 2011

Playwrights Canada Press

Playtext

Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

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...In part four, Ash, the mill stands: battered and surrounded by ash. Inside, five young people cling to life. Can hope take root on such poisoned ground...

A History of Breathing

Written by

Daniel Macdonald

~playauthor~Written by~ Daniel Macdonald

Playwrights Canada Press, 2013

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

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...Two boats float aimlessly on an ocean that conceals the remains of civilization and history. One boat carries a father and daughter, the last survivors of an unspeakable catastrophe; the other carries the only hope for a new beginning...

You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy

Written by

Caroline Horton

~playauthor~Written by~ Caroline Horton

Methuen Drama, 2012

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

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...January 1945. Paris has been liberated. Christiane Renée Anne St Requier, an eccentric and acutely myopic Parisian waits at Gare Du Nord for a ticket to England to be reunited with her fiancé. While she waits, this gloriously irrepressible...

Shimmer  

Written by

Linda McLean

~playauthor~Written by~ Linda McLean

Nick Hern Books, 2004

Playtext

Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

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...Linda McLean's play Shimmer is a lyrical drama about three generations of memory and experience, as three women and three men take refuge from the weather in a Bed and Breakfast by Loch Lomond. It was first performed at the Traverse...