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Teaching guide: suggested plays

This list suggests plays that you can use for Component 3. Please refer to the specification to make sure that you do not choose any prohibited play combinations.

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Gone Too Far!

Bola Agbaje

The Boy with Two Hearts

Hamed and Hessam Amiri adapted by Phil Porter

Blackout

Davey Anderson

Josef K

Tom Basden based on Franz Kafka’s The Trial

One Man, Two Guv’nors

Richard Bean

The Trial

Steven Berkoff

Eleven Vests

Edward Bond

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne adapted by Angus Jackson

Speechless

Linda Brogan and Polly Teale

The Changing Room

Chris Bush

Tuesday

Alison Carr

Two

Jim Cartwright

The Free9

In-Sook Chappell

You for Me for You

Mia Chung

Chewing Gum Dream

Michaela Coel

Arabian Nights

Dominic Cooke

A Taste of Honey

Shelagh Delaney

The Westbridge

Rachel De-Lahay

Routes

Rachel De-Lahay

Summer Rolls

Tuyen Do

Grimm Tales

Carol Ann Duffy/Tim Supple

Cape

Inua Ellams

Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home

Lisa Evans

Home

Nadia Fall

Duck

Stella Feehily

Neville’s Island

Tim Firth

Mogadishu

Vivienne Franzmann

The Whip

Juliet Gilkes Romero

Brainstorm

Ned Glasier/Emily Lim/Company Three

Teechers

John Godber

The Government Inspector

Nikolai Gogol/David Harrower

She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith

Dr Korczak’s Example

David Greig

Tristan and Yseult

Carl Grose/Anna Maria Murphy

Bouncers

John Godber

Shakers

John Godber

Fragile Land

Tanika Gupta

The Empress

Tanika Gupta

Inside Out

Tanika Gupta

Familiar

Danai Gurira

Eclipsed

Danai Gurira

Animal Farm

Peter Hall

A Raisin in The Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

The Permanent Way

David Hare

Beautiful Thing

Jonathan Harvey

Wendy & Peter Pan

Ella Hickson

A Handbag

Anthony Horowitz

Mindgame

Anthony Horowitz

Blood

Emteaz Hussain

Living with Lady Macbeth

Rob John

Chiaroscuro

Jackie Kay

My Mother Said I Never Should

Charlotte Keatley

DNA

Dennis Kelly

Lillies on the Land

The Lions Part

Ernest and the Pale Moon

Oliver Lansley/Les Enfants Terribles

The Trench

Oliver Lansley/Les Enfants Terribles

Beautiful Burnout

Bryony Lavery/Frantic Assembly

Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist/Jack Thorne

1984

Duncan Macmillan/Robert Icke

Resting Restless

Bethan Marlow

A View From The Bridge

Arthur Miller

Trojan Horse

Helen Monks and Matt Woodhead

The Amazing Story of Adolophus Tips

Michael Morpugo and Emma Rice

War Horse

Michael Morpurgo

The Grandfathers

Rory Mullarkey

The Last Witch

Rona Munro

Street Trilogy (Car/Raw/Kid)

Chris O’Connell

Princess and the Hustler

Chinonyerem Odimba

The Gift

Janice Okoh

Can You Keep a Secret?

Winsome Pinnock

Leave Taking

Winsome Pinnock

Girls Like That

Evan Placey

Holloway Jones

Evan Placey

Banana Boys

Evan Placey

An Inspector Calls

J B Priestley

Blue Remembered Hills

Dennis Potter

Citizenship

Mark Ravenhill

Sparkleshark

Philip Ridley

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

Stags and Hens

Willy Russell

Kindertransport

Diane Samuels

Black Comedy

Peter Shaffer

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Simon Stephens

Port

Simon Stephens

Sisters

Stephanie Street

Blue Stockings

Jessica Swale

Stone Cold

Robert Swindells

Chatroom

Enda Walsh

Billy Liar

Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall

Missing Dan Nolan

Mark Wheeller

Be My Baby

Amanda Whittington

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Lord of the Flies

Nigel Williams/William Golding

Slow Time

Roy Williams

Face

Benjamin Zephaniah adapted by Richard Conlon

Refugee Boy

Benjamin Zephaniah adapted by Lemn Sissay