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When repressed British schoolfriends Nina and Noa start writing a parody American coming-of-age romance, the colourful, familiar characters come to life and show them that they might just have a story of their own to tell.

Cowboys and Lesbians is a queer romantic comedy which examines the intersection between sexuality and fantasy through the eyes of two closeted teenage girls, highlighting just how much the stories we consume affect the ones we tell about ourselves.

CASTING 2 actors (both female, playing later teens)or up to 8 actors

Running time: 75-80 minutes

★★★★"Funny, mischievous, utterly absorbing..’ Clive Davis, The Times

"Outrageous, hilarious, and wonderfully wholesome, this queer rom-com is exactlywhat the title insists and more." - Vi Dang, Playbill

"Incredibly tender, fuelled by the hopeful urges of early understandings of queernessand the desperate desire to be kissed" - Kate Wyver, The Guardian

★★★★★“refreshing, original and laugh out loud hilarious”London Theatre Review

★★★★“outrageously funny, and gay too - what more could you want?” Watch that Scene

★★★★★West London Queer Project

“It’s not really surprising that our generation would be struggling. It’s a sane response to an insane world.”

When the school’s lockdown alarm sounds everyone assumes it’s a drill. But soon a group of year 9 students find themselves stuck in a geography classroom with only Deputy Head Prefect Jamie to keep them under control. It becomes clear that the school is in lockdown because of an ‘incident with a pupil.’ While the group speculates as to the identity of the student and the nature of the ‘incident’ it slowly emerges that, although no one’s talking about it, the students are all grappling with mental health issues of their own.

Nina Lemon’s insightful play sensitively explores the challenges faced by a group of school kids as they cope witha high-stakes school system in a world that’s piling on the pressure.

Masking is an original play created with and for youth arts charity Peer Productions.

"Moving and unflinching- Masking not only reflects the realities of today’s classrooms but celebrates the voices of those within them." - Katy Secombe (actor, director, drama coach)

CASTING: 7 actors of equal weight (3 identifying as female, 2 as male and 2 of any gender - playing 13-17 years)

RUNNING TIME: 60-75 minutes

1859. A field in Kanaipur, Bengal.

Life-loving Sadhu Charan, an indigo farmer, is newly married to Kshetromani, a woman with visions of thefuture. At first, all is idyllic. But when the new British planter Rose arrives, full of strange desires, thecreeping malignancy of the indigo system begins to strangle their happiness.

During the British Raj, to meet the world’s insatiable desire for blue, vast swathes of the Bengali countryside were given over to the cultivation of the indigo plant. The atrocities committed by British planters triggered an extraordinary revolution that changed Bengal forever.

Indigo Giant is a gripping, haunting drama by award-winning playwright Ben Musgrave, inspired by Dinabandhu Mitra’s trail-blazing Indigo Mirror, a play that shook colonial India. With songs in English and Bangla by Leesa Gazi. 

CASTING: 10 actors (5 male, 4 female, 1 any gender) plus chorus

Renowned music manager, Rikki Stein, has spent nearly six decades moving musicians around the world, and this book recounts a lifetime of adventure on the road. Always in the right place at the right time, Rikki was part of the great countercultural moments of the last century, from Woodstock and the Vietnam War Moratorium March to the launch Glastonbury Festival.

Throughout this extraordinary time, Rikki has toured some of the world''s most iconic musicians and groups, from The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Kinks, The Animals, The Yardbirds,The Moody Blues, Grateful Dead to managing the Nigerian superstar, Fela Kuti and many other iconic artists.

Full of extraordinary, sometimes hilarious, stories of life on the road, this memoir recounts the joys, frustrations and surprises of juggling logistics, local politics and the whims of his creative clients to deliver true, life-enhancing moments of moving music.

In 1820s Sussex, amateur geologist Gideon Mantell finds something nobody can explain. It looks like a huge tooth - but what kind of creature

did it belong to? And how does it fit into the story of an earth created by God just 6,000 years ago?

Based on the true story of one man''s battle to be heard, this is the 19th century as you''ve never seen it - filled with scientific endeavour, bitter

rivalry and terrible lizards.

It''s 1961 and the concrete''s just been poured for a brand-new housing estate. It''s beautiful, not because of the clean lines, indoor toilets and wide

windows, but because the idea behind it is beautiful. This is the future, and it''s for everyone.

It''s 2018 and the last tower of the estate is about to come down. The dream that saw it built has long since died and now the estate has to

follow suit to make way for new buildings, based on new ideas. This is the future, whether you like it or not.

Language is personal. Nothing gets closer to our hearts. And yet, by its own nature, it''s always social. Who owns it? Who appoints it? Who governs it? And why?

In this one-woman show about the Scots language, Ishbel McFarlane presents collected fragments - stories, interviews, memories, characters and attitudes - to challenge and disrupt our expectations and prejudices about language.

By interrogating the history of Scots, and the ways in which it is taught and subdued, the audience is invited to question the way forward for minority languages. Winner of The Arches Platform 18: New Directions Award 2014.

With a new foreword by Stewart Pringle, Playwright and Dramaturg of the National Theatre of Great Britain.

Winner of the 1997 Theatre Book Prize

Peggy Ramsay was the most admired British play agent of the twentieth century. With a matchless ability to visualise a play just by reading it on the page, she set up in business in 1953, and over the years nurtured and developed the most dazzling client list which included Eugene Ionesco, Joe Orton, Robert Bolt, David Mercer, John McGrath, Iris Murdoch, John Mortimer, James Saunders, Peter Nichols, Charles Wood, Ann Jellicoe, Edward Bond, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Alan Ayckbourn, Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton and Willy Russell. Her role in the development of modern British drama was central.

One of the most remarkable things about her was her instinctive generosity. Peggy believed that the living playwright belonged at the centre of the theatre. A theatre without new writing talent to refresh it was worthless.

‘a bedrock of the Scottish theatre industry’ The Guardian

‘a major part of Scotland’s new playwriting landscape’ The Scotsman

After running for fifteen years, the founding principles of A Play, a Pie and a Pint remain steadfast – a new play at lunchtime every week that lasts no more than an hour, accompanied by a pie and a pint. As well as producing thirty-three new plays per year, Òran Mór also biannually hosts its much-adored pantomimes for grown up kids – both Summer and Winter – which have become a staple of the Glasgow theatrical calendar.

This first volume collects some of the most popular and critically acclaimed plays from the phenomenal back catalogue.

Includes the plays: 

A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity (Douglas Maxwell)

Toy Plastic Chicken (Uma Nada-Rajah)

Chic Murray: A Funny Place for A Window (Stuart Hepburn)

Ida Tamson (Denise Mina)

Jocky Wilson Said (Jane Livingstone and Jonathan Cairney)

Do Not Press This Button (Alan Bissett)

New edition with bonus features

This hard-hitting verbatim play is based on a tragic drink drive accident that results in the death of the vehicle’s front seat passenger, Jo. Her sister Judy, driving the car, escapes physically unhurt – but can never escape the consequences of her own reckless behaviour.

Since its initial performances in 1987, Too Much Punch for Judy has toured non-stop all over the world to schools, colleges, prisons, young offenders’ institutes and army bases. Astonishingly, it is now one of the most performed contemporary plays, with 6058 licensed performances between 1987 and 2020.

The play has been cited in Chief Examiner’s reports for GCSE Drama to be an example of a play that gives students ample opportunity to achieve across the criteria.

Suitable for: Key Stage 3/4, BTEC, A-Level to adultDuration: 60 minutes approximatelyCast: 6 male, 6 female, 1 male or female, or 2 male, 2 female with doubling.

"The audience I sat in was patently out for some whooping Friday night fun watching their mates on stage. At the end there was a horrid silence."
Nick Baker, Times Educational Supplement

The Ching Room

A pitch-black two-hander set in a toilet cubicle. Rory realises he is out of his depth once he becomes trapped by the terrifying and enigmatic drug-dealer, Darren. 

Cast size: 2M.

Turbo Folk

A sharp look at Scottish nationality at home and abroad. Set in the sort of bar you wouldn''t take tourists to, in an unspecified Balkan country, Turbo Folk earned Bissett a nomination for Best New Play at the 2010 Critics'' Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS). 

Cast size: 3M.

During the summer holidays of 2009 Corey dreams of nothing but hanging around with his friends while ordering as much Morley’s as possible… until Jodie comes along.

Meeting her makes Corey realise the changes that are happening within his beloved Lewisham Borough and, for the first time, thinking about what path his future takes.

''Corey Bovell is a master story-teller who oozes charisma, captivating his audience throughout. He is able to truly capture those moments he describes, drawing you in, even when he’s just telling you about ordering his Chicken Burger N Chips. It’s a deeply personal play and this comes through in both the writing and the performance… Kwame Asiedu’s direction brings it to life with energy and emotion…I hope it gets a further run so more people are able to experience this.'' ★★★★ Dress Circle Reviews

''For 75 breathless, high energy minutes, writer/performer Corey painted a vivid picture of life on the mean streets of Lewisham, with good friends, a loving family, and the best fried chicken in South London… Corey Bovell enacts that significance with brilliant effect and makes the story of "a good boy in a bad borough" powerful and telling… I loved the powerful performance.'' London Pub Theatres

From 2014 to 2018, character comedy trio Sleeping Trees challenged themselves to bring the big screen to the stage, paying homage and reinventing gangster, western and sci-fi movies for audiences across the country. This book recounts how these shows were made, stories from when they were on tour, the trio’s unique approach to devising fringe comedy, as well as the original scripts of the three award-winning plays.

Mafia?

Sleeping Trees deliver their version of every gangster film they’ve ever seen. Expect casinos, operas and bloodshed as the Banucci brothers find themselves in a situation stickier than most luxury cakes.

Western?

The Sleeping Trees find themselves slowly crisping under the sun of the Wild West, as gun-slinger Harry Sudds takes on bulls, scorpions and many other animals largely found in America.

Sci-Fi? 

At a time where ancient planet Plutopia rules the galaxy, farmer Charlie Sprog is dragged from his quiet home planet and given one simple mission: SAVE THE UNIVERSE FROM TOTAL DESTRUCTION.

So sit back, relax, grab some popcorn, and enjoy. Obviously if you need to put the popcorn down to hold the book then do, maybe just put the popcorn to the side, or hold it between your thighs? The important thing is that you read the book.

All the boys at school seem to be only interested in one thing, so when naive Charlotte meets an older guy online who promises her a fairytale romance, she is sure it''s true love. It''s up to her friend Ash to try and stop her from making a terrible mistake but Ash has worries of their own. When a drunken year 11 house party gets out of control, Tim makes a decision which will affect both him and Seren for the rest of their lives. Meanwhile Mike''s become hooked on internet pornography, David''s still a virgin and Rob''s fallen in love. 

''Losing It'' is a musical play which tells the story of a group of 18 year olds as they look back on their 7 years at secondary school. 

"Because there''s a bit more to it than sperm meets egg.

Teachers'' Pack

In addition to the play we provide a complimentary Teachers'' Pack, a guide for educators on how best to discuss the difficult topics examined by the play in a classroom environment, in addition to containing a range of comprehensive teaching resources and student worksheets.

We update the Teachers'' Pack each year in accordance with the play.

Recommended Year Group: 9+

Show Length: 90 mins

Sophia feels stifled by boarding school life, has a poor body image and struggles to control her mood. Matt is consumed with anxiety about his impending exams. Tash is haunted by memories of a traumatic childhood. In the long summer after GCSEs these three very different teenagers strike up an unlikely friendship at a music festival. They''ve been to different schools, had different friendship groups and have led very different lives. As they share their stories it becomes clear that they have one thing in common - they have used self-harm as way to cope with their feelings. Hidden tells the story of the recovery of these three very different teenagers as they struggle with their mental health and self-harming behaviour.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) there has been a threefold increase in the number of young people who self-harm in the UK. With up to one in five 15-year-olds saying they self-harm and the NHS reporting a rise of 30% in the number of children (between 10 and 14) being treated by the NHS as a result of self-harm, this timely play offers an insight into this unhealthy behaviour as well as hope that recovery is not only possible but desirable.

Designed to debunk some of the unhelpful myths surrounding self-harm and enable teenagers to get the help that they need for themselves and their peers to find healthier ways to manage their emotions, this play was developed by youth arts charity Peer Productions in consultation with clinical experts as a direct response to requests from young people and the teachers and youth workers who support them.

Teachers'' Pack

Peer Productions has worked with Dr Pooky Knightsmith, Mental Health and Wellbeing lead for the PSHE association to develop a Teachers'' Pack designed to work alongside the play. This contains materials and resources for supporting lessons as well as suggestions and recommendations for working with this challenging topic.

Recommended Year Group: 8+

Show Length: 80 mins 

A varied collection of 30 contemporary monologues from Mark Wheeller''s plays.

The book includes monologues from

Too Much Punch For Judy, 

Hard To Swallow, 

Missing Dan Nolan, 

I Love You, Mum I Promise I Won''t Die, 

Game Over 

... and many more of Mark''s plays... and musicals.

All these monologues are suitable for young people to use in the classroom, online to camera or Zoom, or for audition use. Despite many being ostensibly for adult performers they are all tried and tested for young people to use with amazing results.

Without exception, they were all written for young people to perform. Being verbatim material, they are all suitable for blind casting.

Mark''s monologues have been used in collections before but there has never been a collection of exclusively Mark Wheeller monologues - until now.

A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller''s plays. Compiled at a time when social distancing is a consideration, these duologues all lend themselves to Zoom/Social Distance friendly performances.

It includes duologues from:

Too Much Punch For Judy

Hard To Swallow

Missing Dan Nolan

I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won''t Die

Game Over

... and many more of Mark''s plays... and musicals. It also includes a previously unpublished self-contained short Sibling Saviours.

All these duologues are suitable for young people to use for classroom or audition use. Despite many being ostensibly for adult performers they are all tried and tested for young people to use with amazing results.

There has never before been a collection of exclusively Mark Wheeller duologues.

A book packed with one hundred monologues, aimed at young performers from pre teens to young adults.

The book has been written by a drama teacher with over twenty years'' experience which includes heading up a performing arts faculty in a secondary school, GCSE and A-Level examining and most currently residing as the principal of a successful theatre school. She also has her work published in the 2019 LAMDA Acting Anthology and has several published plays.

The original monologues and scenes can be used for class work, festivals and exams. The monologues have guidance on age suitability, and there is a good mix of male and female characters, with some written as non-gender specific in order to give the performer a wider selection of pieces to choose from. This collection of creative material would be a great asset to any drama teacher’s resources and be of benefit to primary and secondary schools as well as youth groups, and those preparing for auditions.

 “A great series of monologues, funny, sad and heart warming. Like a little sidekick in paperback form! Extremely reliable resources for all genres of monologue. The author has, thankfully, broadened the horizons for anyone looking for suitable and appropriate audition material. Students will be thrilled to perform these fun, new, fresh, quirky and up to date pieces.”

Dave King (Drama Teacher and LAMDA Tutor)

A lapsed academic haunted by her past, and by an ambiguous angel, in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie auditions for his ex in a pub-theatre in Cork City; a schizophrenic grapples for freedom from the mother in his mind; three voices of the COVID-19 pandemic seek long-distance resolution and reunion. In these and other monologues, selected from over two decades of work, award-winning American playwright Dan O''Brien illuminates, in heartbreaking and unwavering fashion, the humanity of lost souls longing to be heard.

This is an educational book about a real life story and contains some upsetting themes. It should be introduced in an environment where children can talk and learn in a supported way. For children with the cognitive age of 4+. 

Breck is a 14-year-old boy who loves computing and gaming. However, things go wrong when he makes a new friend online. 

Based on the tragic events around the grooming of Breck Bednar, ‘This is Breck’ is designed for lower age students and those with special needs, to introduce basic online and grooming safety to children. This book is ideal for those children with the cognitive age of 4+. 

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Breck is a strong and fearless knight. When he is be-friended by a Troll called Lewis, all is not as it seems. Is it all just a fantasy? Or a terrible truth within?

Based on the tragic events around the grooming of Breck Bednar. ‘Breck and the Online Troll’ is designed for special needs and lower age students to introduce basic online and grooming safety to children. This book has been created to be used with children with the cognitive age of 8+.

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Breck is a 14-year-old boy, with friends, family and a love for gaming. When he is befriended online by 18-year-old Lewis, the lies that Lewis constructs destroy Breck and his loved ones'' realities forever.

Based on the tragic events around the grooming of 14-year-old Breck Bednar the play ''Play Virtual, Live Real'' is designed for special needs and lower ability children to introduce online safety and grooming awareness. This play has been created to be used with children with the cognitive age of 12+.

Designed with a six-week scheme of work to support teachers and students through this heartbreaking story.

Ever feel like your body takes up too much space in a world that doesn''t want to make any room? Katie is fat. Pretty much always been fat, and will be fat forever.

FATTY FAT FAT is a funny, frank and provocative solo show about living in a body the world tells you to hate. Leave your diet books at the door.

It was the dinner that changed history: the night in February 2016 when Boris Johnson decided to vote ‘leave’ and a nation’s future was sealed. Guests included the spirits of Prime Ministers past, including Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and Tony Blair as well as fellow MP Michael Gove, the journalist Sarah Vine, Marina Wheeler and Evgeny Lebedev.

Fast forward to post-Brexit Britain. Johnson, no longer in power, roams the political wilderness. Unexpected events see him back in the spotlight and with a chance to “make Britain great again”. This hilarious play addresses the big questions. What will Britain look like in decades to come? What do we want from our leaders? Are all political careers destined to end in failure? And is chlorinated chicken really bad for you?

It is 1989 and a seemingly invincible Prime Minister has sacked Geoffrey Howe, her Foreign Secretary. She apparently had nothing to fear from him: his speaking skills had, famously, been compared to those of a dead sheep. But, a year later, inspired by his wife Elspeth - whose relationship with Thatcher was notoriously frosty - Howe overcame his limitations to destroy Mrs Thatcher with one of the great political speeches. Dead Sheep is a drama tinged with tragedy and comedy. Its themes - loyalty, love, political morality and Britishness - are still uncannily relevant today.

This classic short novel gets a classic Mark Wheeller treatment. 



Silas Marner, a member of a strict religious community, is wrongly accused of theft and is forced to move to the faraway village of Raveloe. 

A robbery at his new home leaves Marner without his hard earned gold and in the depths of depression.

A mysterious, drug addicted woman is later found dead in the woods outside Marner''s cottage. 

That same night he thinks his gold has returned... but it proves to be something very different...

Silas Marner was originally performed as a Promenade production. It offers opportunities for imaginative staging that has become the hallmark for all the best known Wheellerplays. 

It will serve as a great read around the class script in English lessons because of its narrative style. The book is one of those allowed on various English GCSE Syllabi and is a set text for Edexcel GCSE English. 

Teapot in the Fridge is a collection of poems written in love, rage and despair by a wife caring for her husband as he descends into the no-man''s-land of dementia.

The tone of the poems range from the desolate to the furious, and from nostalgia to hilarity to despair, but informing all of them is the sense - unshakeable - that ''what will remain of us is love.'' 

Pat and Pete live happily in their tiny botanic bathroom, so happily that they don''t remember any ambitions they''ve ever had in life. Until the day Mr. Citrus Man, a life guru from the Big City moves into the rest of their home. A strange letter, a forgotten dream, and a new feeling suddenly leads Pat on a dangerous journey, where what she loves the most is on the line.

''I don''t understand how we got here. How we got to the point of actual physical fucking violence''

It seemed so straightforward: her and him, sex, whenever they wanted.

But when the casual becomes routine and what was convenient turns all-consuming, she''s left trying to figure out, trying to remember when the ''straightforward'' became so vicious. 

Michelle Barnette''s brutal debut play explores the toxicity of casual dating and the grey area between love and sex, consent and compliance, yes and no.

Written by Anne Odeke, Guleraana Mir, Kenny Emson, Sadie Hasler.

Four inspirational tales of Essex resilience intertwine to make an unmissable world premiere by the region''s most exciting playwrights.

The Essex Princess by Anne Odeke

It''s 1908 and Joanna''s planning to provoke the attention of Southend and the whole of the nation, by becoming the first black woman to compete in a beauty pageant.

Fiza by Guleraana Mir

Fiza''s moved home with her parents. Under dire circumstances... At nearly 40. Will she pick herself up in time for the dreaded school reunion?

Never Never Land by Kenny Emson

Tag''s out with the lads in 1998 - it''s his last night as a proper Essex boy. 

But there are last nights, and there are last nights.

Everybody Gets Born by Sadie Hasler

Daisy''s having a baby.

Yep, right now.

Actually having a baby.

The drugs kick in, the room goes fuzzy, and Daisy finds herself back in 1978... in her mum''s glam band.