Teaching guide: suggested plays
This list suggests plays that you can use for the practical component. Please refer to the specification to make sure that you do not choose any prohibited play combinations.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Bogus Woman | Kay Adshead |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| The Positive Hour | April de Angelis |
| The God of Vengeance | Sholem Asch |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| The Dilemma of a Ghost | Ama Ata Aidoo |
| Anowa | Ama Ata Aidoo |
| A Small Family Business | Alan Ayckbourn |
| Scenes From an Execution | Howard Barker |
| Cock | Mike Bartlett |
| The Container | Clare Bayley |
| Fit | Rikki Beadle Blair |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| The History Boys | Alan Bennett |
| East | Steven Berkoff |
| Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. | Alice Birch |
| London Road | Alecky Blythe/Adam Cork |
| Saved | Edward Bond |
| The Secret River | Andrew Bovell |
| Close Quarters | Kate Bowen |
| Mother Courage | Bertolt Brecht |
| The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Bertolt Brecht |
| Hobson’s Choice | Harold Brighouse |
| Rotterdam | Jon Brittain |
| Woyzeck | Georg Buchner |
| Black Watch | Gregory Burke |
| Mojo | Jez Butterworth |
| Retrograde | Ryan Calais-Cameron |
| Pond Life | Richard Cameron |
| Wise Children | Angela Carter adapted by Emma Rice |
| Road | Jim Cartwright |
| Red Velvet | Lolita Chakrabarti |
| The Seagull | Anton Chekhov |
| Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov |
| Trouble in Mind | Alice Childress |
| Love and Information | Caryl Churchill |
| Serious Money | Caryl Churchill |
| Top Girls | Caryl Churchill |
| Mnemonic | Complicite |
| The Street of Crocodiles | Complicite |
| Jeff and Jo Forever | Zoe Cooper |
| Private Lives | Noel Coward |
| Hay Fever | Noel Coward |
| Attempts on Her Life | Martin Crimp |
| Death and the Maiden | Ariel Dorfman |
| Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? | Claire Dowie |
| Everyman | Carol Ann Duffy |
| Rita, Sue and Bob Too | Andrea Dunbar |
| The Visit | Friedrich Durrenmatt |
| Barber Shop Chronicles | Inua Ellams |
| Medea | Euripides/Ben Power |
| The Trojan Women | Euripides |
| The Beaux Stratagem | George Farquhar |
| ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore | John Ford |
| Democracy | Michael Frayn |
| Dancing at Lughnasa | Brian Friel |
| Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! | Dario Fo |
| Sizwe Banzi is Dead | Athol Fugard |
| The Island | Athol Fugard |
| Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act | Athol Fugard |
| A Lesson from Aloes | Athol Fugard |
| Master Harold and the Boys | Athol Fugard |
| The Road to Mecca | Athol Fugard |
| Cousins | Athol Fugard |
| Playland | Athol Fugard |
| Sorrows and Rejoicings | Athol Fugard |
| Overtones | Alice Gerstenberg |
| Nine Night | Natasha Gordon |
| Tory Boyz | James Graham |
| Dunsinane | David Greig |
| Dead Dog in a Suitcase | Carl Grose/Kneehigh |
| Our Lady of Kibeho | Katori Hall |
| The Mountain Top | Katori Hall |
| Les Blancs | Lorraine Hansberry |
| The Absence of War | David Hare |
| Stuff Happens | David Hare |
| The Secret Rapture | David Hare |
| Blackbird | David Harrower |
| The Children’s Hour | Lillian Hellman |
| Meeting Myself Coming Back | Kerry Hood |
| M. Butterly | David Hwang |
| A Doll’s House | Henrik Ibsen |
| Ghosts | Henrik Ibsen |
| The Doctor | Robert Icke |
| The Chairs | Eugene Ionesco |
| Appropriate | Brandon Jacob James |
| Cutting It | Charlene James |
| King Ubu (Ubu Roi) | Alfred Jarry |
| Yen | Amanda Jordan |
| J’ouvert | Yasmin Joseph |
| 4:48 Psychosis | Sarah Kane |
| The Laramie Project | Moises Kaufman/Tectonic |
| East is East | Ayub Khan Din |
| Girls and Boys | Dennis Kelly |
| Chimerica | Lucy Kirkwood |
| Mosquitoes | Lucy Kirkwood |
| NSFW | Lucy Kirkwood |
| The Welkin | Lucy Kirkwood |
| Angels in America | Tony Kushner |
| Elmina’s Kitchen | Kwame Kwei-Armah |
| Fix Up | Kwame Kwei-Armah |
| Statement of Regret | Kwame Kwei-Armah |
| Frozen | Bryony Lavery |
| Stockholm | Bryony Lavery |
| seven methods of killing kylie jenner | Jasmine Lee Jones |
| Abigail’s Party | Mike Leigh |
| Her Naked Skin | Rebecca Lenkiewicz |
| Play with a Tiger | Doris Lessing |
| The Long Song | Andrea Levy adapted by Suhayla El-Bushr |
| Small Island | Andrea Levy adapted by Helen Edmundson |
| Teenage Dick | Mike Lew |
| Guys and Dolls | Loesser/Loewe |
| The House of Bernada Alba | Federico Garcia Lorca |
| Closer | Patrick Marber |
| Edward II | Christopher Marlowe |
| All of Us | Francesca Martinez |
| Playboy of the West Indies | Mustapha Matura |
| The Brothers Size | Tarell Alvin McCraney |
| Wig Out | Tarell Alvin McCraney |
| The Cripple of Inishmaan | Martin McDonagh |
| The Pillowman | Martin McDonagh |
| The Seafarer | Conor McPherson |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Prima Facie | Suzie Miller |
| Another Country | Julian Mitchell |
| Tiny Dynamite | Abi Morgan |
| Splendour | Abi Morgan |
| Tender | Abi Morgan |
| Christmas is Miles Away | Chloe Moss |
| Mugabe, My Dad and Me | Tonderai Munyevu |
| The Wonderful World of Dissocia | Anthony Neilson |
| Ruined | Lynn Nottage |
| Clybourne Park | Bruce Norris |
| The Colour of Justice | Richard Norton-Taylor |
| Hymns | Chris O’Connell |
| Entertaining Mr Sloane | Joe Orton |
| Loot | Joe Orton |
| What the Butler Saw | Joe Orton |
| Look Back in Anger | John Osborne |
| Iphigenia in Splott | Gary Owen |
| Love Steals Us from Loneliness | Gary Owen |
| Constellations | Nick Payne |
| Crazy Horse | Dev Patel |
| Strange Fruit | Caryl Philips |
| Mules | Winsome Pinnock |
| Talking in Tongues | Winsome Pinnock |
| Betrayal | Harold Pinter |
| The Caretaker | Harold Pinter |
| Pronoun | Evan Placey |
| A Very Expensive Poison | Lucy Prebble |
| Enron | Lucy Prebble |
| The Effect | Lucy Prebble |
| Monsters | Niklas Radstrom |
| The White Card | Claudia Rankine |
| pool (no water) | Mark Ravenhill/Frantic Assembly |
| Art | Yasmina Reza |
| God of Carnage | Yasmina Reza |
| Brief Encounter | Emma Rice/Kneehigh |
| No Exit | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Mary Stuart | Friedrich Schiller |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare |
| Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons | Sam Steiner |
| Buried Child | Sam Shepard |
| The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| Bent | Martin Sherman |
| The Riots | Gillian Slovo |
| Talking to Terrorists | Robin Soans |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| The Lion and the Jewel | Wole Soyinka |
| Madman and Specialists | Wole Soyinka |
| Death and the King’s Horseman | Wole Soyinka |
| The Beautification of Area Boy | Wole Soyinka |
| The Trials of Brother Jero | Wole Soyinka |
| Tusk Tusk | Polly Stenham |
| Harper Regan | Simon Stephens |
| Punk Rock | Simon Stephens |
| Five Kinds of Silence | Shelagh Stephenson |
| Arcadia | Tom Stoppard |
| Miss Julie | August Strindberg |
| Enough of Him | May Sumbwanyambe |
| The Playboy of The Western World | J M Synge |
| Black Men Walking | Testament |
| Machinal | Sophie Treadwell |
| hang | debbie tucker green |
| stoning mary | debbie tucker green |
| truth and reconciliation | debbie tucker green |
| random | debbie tucker green |
| Breathing Corpses | Laura Wade |
| Home, I’m Darling | Laura Wade |
| The Watsons | Laura Wade |
| Posh | Laura Wade |
| The Duchess of Malfi | John Webster |
| Spring Awakening | Franz Wedekind/Anya Reiss |
| Marat/Sade | Peter Weiss |
| The Love of the Nightingale | Timberlake Wertenbaker |
| Chips with Everything | Arnold Wesker |
| An Ideal Husband | Oscar Wilde |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Days of Significance | Roy Williams |
| Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads | Roy Williams |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| Not About Nightingales | Tennessee Williams |
| Fences | August Wilson |
| Jitney | August Wilson |
| Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | August Wilson |
| Unprotected | Esther Wilson/John Fay |