Miriam Battye – författare

You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before -but like Let's Be Modest About It Tosh and Lou. 22 scenes.Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what? Tosh and Lou have each other. They'll never be like the other girls. They won't sit in a narrative someone else thought up.This is love. This is enough. This is enough. Scenes with girls by Miriam Battye premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2020.

And when you see what's out there. What do you want with it. Do you want to fuck it. Like, weekly? Or do you want to sort of. Put your hands in its pockets. Take it to your mother. Love it until you die. Sort of thing. With acid wit, Miriam Battye's play takes a scalpel to modern romance. No! Fuck NO. I don't want to, like, go for WALKS and use and reuse those METAL FOIL SERVING trays all my life NO. I want to TEAR SOMEONE APART. Strategic Love Play opened at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in July 2023, produced by Paines Plough, Soho Theatre and Belgrade Theatre, in association with Landmark Theatres.Winner of a Fringe First Award for outstanding new writing.

A brutally funny fever dream about teenagers, desire and female friendship from Miriam Battye (Strategic Love Play, Succession).We go in, pick one boy each to pull, do that pulling, then come home and eat the chicken dippers I've put in the fridge for us. At what part of that is dying occurring.Friday night. Four girls. Two boys. Alone in a house. Some of them are in love. Most of them are virgins.Everyone is pretending to know what they're doing.Tonight, that's all going to change.The Virgins opened at Soho Theatre, London, in January 2026.

It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre ConnectionsDrawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2021 features work by brilliant artists. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities.The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study.This 2021 edition is intended as a companion to the 2020 anthology, which together represent the full set of 10 plays offered by the National Theatre 2021 Festival. The two plays included in this collection are Find a Partner by Miriam Battye and Like There’s No Tomorrow, created by the Belgrade Young Company with Justine Themen, Claire Procter and Liz Mytton. The anthology contains two play scripts, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that will give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.