This coming Monday 27 September, Players Playwright will be meeting in person Upstairs at North London Tavern for the first time since...

Player Playwrights returns for a new season of play readings, contests and events. Our first reading is a radical new telling of a...

After our successful evenings of monologues for possible inclusion on the PP YouTube channel on January 18th and March 8th, there is now...

Player Playwrights returns with an exciting season of readings of new plays, competitions and special events. During lockdown we took our...

A new radio drama written by Tom Pauk Determined to give something back, and despite wife Jess’s concerns, George decides to volunteer in...

Matt and Gary are ‘minding’ a man and awaiting instructions from the powers that be which will decide the man’s fate, and also, unbeknown...

An evening of discussion with John Plews, who runs Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate Village, on the future of London theatre post...

Player Playwrights takes a break for the Bank Holiday and returns on Monday 7 June with a night devoted to our actor members. Following...

Why do people watch theatre at all? To see the world through fresh eyes. To live, for an hour or two, more intensely. So what, as...

Congratulations to Matthew Partridge and Sally Sheringham whose entries in our latest short play contest were voted the audience...

Vinegar and Brown Paper by Richard Fitchett Vinegar and Brown paper is the fictionalised story of a true event that took place in New...

Player Playwrights returns with an evening of entries from our latest Members short play contest. The theme is THEN & NOW. The brief:...

The Accident by Tom Pauk ​ An unlikely, long-distance friendship strikes up between an Indian call-centre operative and the man he cold...

Player Playwrights’ online programme of readings and events restarts on Monday 19 April with ‘The Art of the Monologue’, a discussion and...

The latest season of Player Playwrights’ events closed with a fascinating and enlightening evening in the company of Laurence Marks and...

A break from our normal play readings with an evening in the company of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.​ The legendary writing...

Join us next Monday for the four overspill plays from the SAME CHARACTER, DIFFERENT DAY competition The plays: MR BENNET AND MISS...

An evening of shorts from our Members rifting on the theme of Same Character, Different Day Their mission was to place a familiar...

A second night of short monologues from Player Playwrights Members. Not to be missed. PASTIES by Peter Carty - read by Phil Philmar ​ A...

A COMEDY FOR THE STAGE BY FRANCIS BECKETT THE MODERN ALCHEMIST derives from Ben Jonson’s farce The Alchemist, first performed in 1610....