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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.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
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 |
| Refugee Boy | Benjamin Zephaniah adapted by Lemn Sissay |