All Plays

Season 5

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Staff Meals Not Allocated
by Alex Medland

One classroom. One day. A million tiny fragments. Centuries from now a memory is dug out, dusted and pieced together again, but whose truth are we telling?

Recommended Age Range: Upper primary and lower secondary

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Pirate Play
by Xhloe and Natasha

Clementine hasn’t yet found their voice, and Duck hasn’t yet found Clementine, until the two stowaway on a nonsensical pirate ship.

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Knock Twice
by Johnny McKnight

Ever since the McAdams packed up and left in the night, there’s been noises coming from Number 16.

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Robbie-O and Jasmine
by Greg McHugh

When a young man follows the crowd to a protest outside a ‘hotel’ used to accommodate those seeking asylum, his life is changed in more ways than he could have ever expected.

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The Butterfly Tap
by Ned Glasier

The Butterfly Tap is a joyful, participatory exploration of teenage happiness. What is it? How do we make more of it? What does it mean to really notice it?

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Season 4

The Book of Spin
by Mammalian Diving Reflex

Real world audiences are guided telephonically by performers, who provide instructions to engage with the world around them in intimate and unusual ways.

Age range: 12 – 25

Cast Size: 1 – 100

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We Ain’t Movin’
by Travis Alabanza

An angry overhead announcement. The sound of bulldozers. One drama block at risk of being demolished.  Can the students save their building?

Age range: 12 – 18

Cast Size: 6+

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Roman Cardboard Swift
by Ella Hickson

Three generations of one family help each other through tough times and learn the important lessons of looking forward and learning to laugh.

Age range: 12 – 25

Cast Size: 4 – 16

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Careful What You Wish For

A ‘paint’ your own adventure story featuring crazy characters, talking paintings and all your wishes brought to life on stage! (With an accompanying process drama)

Age range: 6 – 12

Cast Size: 8 – 50

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Hold Me Closer Bunny Baxter
by James Ley

On the final night of an unsettling Scottish tour with queer music collective The Queer Animals, Bunny Baxter discovers the importance of finding your tribe.

Age range: 14 – 25

Cast Size: 14

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Season 3

Spyrates 2 (Spies vs Pirates): Journey to the Forbidden Island
by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse

Featuring spies, pirates, robots, talking animals and everything in between, ‘Spyrates’ is an interactive, playful and imaginative adventure story with an accompanying process drama.

Ages 6+

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Revolting
by Bryony Kimmings

A series of tasks and actions that make a narrative to be performed with props. We are agents of the revolution. How do we revolt? How do we not get into trouble? Where do we get power, and then how do we use it for good?

Ages 13 +

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The Day the Stampers United
by Sara Shaarawi

A play set in a warehouse. This is a tale of how collective action begins with solidarity within the community.

Ages 12 +

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Are You A Robot?
by Tim Crouch

Two groups of children meet. They look the same; they imagine similar things; they make almost the same noises; they dance in almost the same way. But one group is a digital version of the other; they are the face we see reflected back to us online; they’re exciting and demanding and hard to live up to.

Ages 10 +

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And The Name for That Is…?
by Robert Softley Gale

Meeting a date for a coffee is a whole lot of fun when you know even less about yourself than you do about your date! Prepare for ridiculous disability hi-jinx and a good measure of self-discovery.

Ages 16 +

 

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Ms Campbell’s Class Fifth Period
by Leyla Josephine

A group of school students in the bottom set maths class lock their teacher in a cupboard. They all have various motivations that are gradually revealed and are faced with the question: what do they do now?

Ages 14 +

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Thanks for Nothing
by The PappyShow with Lewis Hetherington

This is not a play, but a process. It explores what it means to be thankful in this world we live in today. It’s a mix of games, challenges and exercises for you to tell your own stories, in your own way.

Ages 11 +

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Season 2

The Raven
by Hannah Lavery

A play full of adventure and an exploration of what shapes and what divides us, exploring issues of blended families, bullying, overeating, depression and isolation. Ages 11+

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At First I Was Afraid… (I Was Petrified!)
by Douglas Maxwell

A feel-good comedy drama about a girl who keeps a diary of all her anxieties; but as she moves from Primary School to Secondary, from normal life to Lockdown, all of her worries appear to come true. Ages 11 +

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The Skirt
by Ellen Bannerman

An absurdist feminist fable for the next generation of feminists. Ages 16+

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Step Pon
by Debris Stevenson

A play about the political power of a rave. Who has the right to rave, to dance and move freely? What is it to feel truly free in your own skin? It tells the story a queer group of humans trying their best to rave whilst the world tries its best to stop them.

Ages 18 +

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Thanks for Nothing — Season 2
by The PappyShow with Lewis Hetherington

This is not a play, but a process. It explores what it means to be thankful in this world we live in today. It’s a mix of games, challenges and exercises for you to tell your own stories, in your own way.

Ages 11 +

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Revolting — Season 2
by Bryony Kimmings

A series of tasks and actions that make a narrative to be performed with props. We are agents of the revolution. How do we revolt? How do we not get into trouble? Where do we get power, and then how do we use it for good?

Ages 13 +

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Spyrates 2 (Spies vs Pirates): Journey to the Forbidden Island
by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse

Featuring spies, pirates, robots, talking animals and everything in between, ‘Spyrates’ is an interactive, playful and imaginative adventure story with an accompanying process drama.

Ages 6 +

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Season 1

The Pack
by Stef Smith

A playful and poetic exploration about getting lost in the loneliness of your living room and trying to find your way home. Ages 13+

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Bad Bored Women of the Rooms
by Sabrina Mahfouz

A storytelling adventure through the centuries of women and girls who have spent a lot of time stuck in a room. Ages 18+

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Is This a Fairytale?
by Bea Webster

A new play that rips apart the traditional fairy-tale canon and turns it on its head in a surprising, inventive and unconventional way. Ages 8+

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Hold Out Your Hand
by Chris Thorpe

A dynamic text asking questions about place, where we are now and the moment we are living through. Ages 13+

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Ozymandias
by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse

A contemporary story inspired by Percy Shelley’s 19th century poem of the same name exploring power, oppression and injustice through the eyes of young people. Ages 16+

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