Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters?

When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the lid on a disunited nation where everyone wants to be an individual but no one wants to stand out from the crowd.

A debut work produced at the Royal Court's Young Writers Festival, Gone Too Far! is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture, portraying a world where respect is always demanded but rarely freely given.

This play has been added to Edexcel's text choices for Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice. First teaching from September 2021, first assessment in Summer 2022. Learn More

Nine teenagers flee North Korea, dreaming of a new life in the South. But the danger is far from over. With threats around every corner, perhaps the mysterious figure of Big Brother can help them? Or is he the very person they’re running from? As their lives hang in the balance, could the teenagers’ fate ultimately come down to a garish South Korean variety show? Inspired by a true story, this is the story of hope, escape and cultural difference.

This play has been added to the Edexcel list of text choices for Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice. First teaching from September 2021, first assessment Summer 2022. Learn More

When Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's unruly brother, Antigone's anger quickly turns to defiance. Creon condemns her to a torturous death: she's to be buried alive.

Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams takes Sophocles' play and, by placing it into a contemporary setting, brings this classic tale vividly to life. A timeless story about loyalty and truth, about how we make meaning out of life and death, and what in the end really does matter.

A new addition to the Edexcel GCSE specification, this play text has been added to the Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice text choices for first teaching from September 2021 and for first assessment in Summer 2022.


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Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her.

A new addition to the Edexcel GCSE specification, this play text has been added to the Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice text choices for first teaching from September 2021 and for first assessment in Summer 2022.

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When social media goes into a frenzy over pictures of a girl at a party, Louise's teacher lectures all the schoolgirls on taking more responsibility for their actions. Enraged that it's them getting reprimanded – and not the boys who took the pictures – Louise wages war on the school's systemic misogyny.

But when she threatens popular boy Scott, risking his claim to the School Captain title, things escalate horribly; a website appears, objectifying the girls and shaming them for their actions. Learn More

Frankie's dead. And no one's quite sure why. But the boys won't talk about it. They can't. There are some truths that men can't share.

Luke Norris's So Here We Are is a play about what can happen when nothing happens, a compassionate look at young lives cut short and a touching portrait of childhood friendships under strain in adult life. Learn More

An offbeat love story about Mr Tutti Frutti, a stuffed owl and the struggle to fit in.
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Written specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK. It offers rich opportunities for an ensemble cast of teenagers.

‘It’s good to have mates who are like you, isn’t it? But then it’s also good to have mates who are really different.’ Learn More

Written specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK. It offers opportunities for a large, flexible cast of any size or mix of genders, and can incorporate chorus work, movement and music.

‘If the world is chaos, then it means there’s no order, and if there’s no order, then it basically means that anything is possible’ Learn More