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Will appeal to drama teachers and students for study and performance Large cast plays with flexible roles, perfect for schools and colleges. Covers sex, sexuality, gender, consent and other topics suitable for teenagers.

Winner of the inaugural Theatre Book Prize in 1991, republished with new foreword by Stewart Pringle, dramaturg of The National Theatre. First biography of arguably the most important figure in post-war British Theatre. A follow up book of letters, Peggy to Her Playwrights, was published to critical acclaim and media interest in 2018.

Focusses on the preservation of minority language and will appeal to readers of minority languages particularly in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Academic and higher education appeal in Scotland. Winner of The Arches Platform 18: New Directions Award 2014.

First published work by promising young London-based writer. Excellent monologue material for audition pieces. Katie Greenall has appeared on several podcasts including The Guilty Feminist and The Pleasure Podcast, and writes for the Metro, Refinery 29 and Bustle.

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 JudyHard To SwallowMissing Dan NolanI Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't DieGame Over... and many more of Mark's plays... and musicals. It also includes a previously unpublished sel...

Features monologues from Mark Wheeller's most iconic and popular plays. Will appeal to drama teachers and students as schools pivot to using monologues/duologues and social distance friendly plays to perform and study. Mark Wheeller is the UK's most performed living playwright.

A Play, A Pie and a Pint's first collected works featuring some of the most popular and critically acclaimed plays from the phenomenal back catalogue of over 500 plays. Includes plays by renowned Scottish authors such as Douglas Maxwell, Uma Nada-Rajah and Alan Bissett. Introduction by The Scotsman Theatre Critic Joyce McMillan. Short one-act plays perfect for amateur groups.

Sleepwalk Collective present an accidental trilogy of performances named after the Kardashian sisters - a ballet, a stage play, and an opera - about excess and opulence, the past and the future, reality and "reality". This edition includes the full texts for all three shows - Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney - plus additional notes and material.

New revised 2020 versionIt's Christmas. Tammy and Chris, cousins and best mates, are both thrilled to get cool new bikes. Give or take the odd unworn cycle helmet everything is great... that is until one morning when Chris has a puncture and Tammy agrees to walk with him. They're late and in a hurry. They decide to race. Chris runs out across a busy main road and then flips open his smart phone to dare Tammy to do the same in front of a fast-a...

Winner of the Terence Rattigan Society Award for a New Play for the Theatre Based on a true story, The Onion at the End is set in the early 1930s and takes place over the course of a pantomime season in Birkenhead and a summer variety season in Southport, Lancashire. Jimmy, a song-and-dance man and Bob, a comedian, have little in common except a shared dressing room. With work scarce, when opportunity knocks they decide there's nothing...

First published work by promising young London-based writer. Excellent monologue material for actors of colour.

New revised 2020 versionChequered Flags to Chequered Futures tells the true story of Chris Gilfoy, the Rookie's World Champion Banger Racer in 2000.In 2006 Chris was being driven along a public road in a powerful BMW by a racing friend. She was thought to be driving at 90 mph in a 30 limit. None were wearing seatbelts and, unknown to Chris, the driver was uninsured. Disastrously, they crashed into a wall, narrowly avoiding killing another driv...

New revised 2020 versionThis is the approved set text for the OCR GCSE 9-1 Drama examThis play tells the tragic true story of Dan Nolan, a teenage boy who went missing on the 1st January 2002 after a night out fishing with his best friends.The play explores the mystery of Dan's disappearance and the tragic events that occurred that night, raising issues concerning personal safety and the importance of looking out for each other.A verbatim play...

Game Over tells the harrowing true story of teenager Breck Bednar, who was groomed over the internet and brutally murdered on 17 February 2014 by a supposed 'friend' that he met online.Breck's story is told in Mark's potent verbatim style, using the words of his family, friends and the killer.It's a shocking but deeply powerful play, with a unique 21st-century message.The play is particularly suitable for 'socially distanced' or online perform...

2020 EditionSet text for Eduqas GCSE 9-1 Drama exam Based on Maureen Dunbar's award-winning book and film Catherine: The Story of a Young Girl Who Died of Anorexia Nervosa. Catherine Dunbar died in 1984, after a seven-year battle against anorexia nervosa. She was just twenty-two.Mark Wheeller's potent documentary play uses the words from Catherine's diaries and also of those most closely involved and affected. This 2020 edition includes a fore...

A perfect play for schools, colleges and youth theatres. A large cast play with multiple roles. Excellent monologue material.

Cinderella and the Beanstalk is a family Christmas pantomime, done the Sleeping Trees way! After writing the script, booking the venue, building a set and hiring a musician, the trio realise they've forgotten one vital component, a cast. The boys have no option but to perform the entire pantomime themselves, with only their dear friend Mark Newnham on piano for compny. A glorious cocktail of your favourite pantomimes! Follow Cinderella on...

Hope and Joy Hope's labour is unusual and uneggspected. Happily, nothing fazes Joy, the hospital cleaner who helps her to escape. Then Joy is sacked from her job and she moves in with Hope and her swan-boy son, Magnus. Their lives collide in chaos - can they survive this shifting world? A deeply original play that explores love and loss in a changing environment, imagining Scotland in a time much like ours, but not quite. The Return F...

Award-winning artist, writer and broadcaster Scottee grew up around mould, mice and second-hand clothes. After a chance meeting with some posh kids, his mum teaching him to talk proper and him successfully persuading his parents to take him off free school meals Scottee knew he didn't want to be common. In Class, Scottee uncovers what it is to be embarrassed about where you're from, how you can pretend to be richer than you are and explores w...

Peter Arnott is an award-winning Scottish writer, with over 50 professionally produced plays Vivid reimagining of the 1879 Tay Bridge Disaster The Signalman won Best New Play at The Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, 2020 Terrific monologue material with historical interest.