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