A married couple's annual Halloween party spirals out of control thanks to simmering resentments – and a disembowelled clown called Diablo. Ruth and Zadie celebrate Halloween by plotting to kill each other. From the moment Ruth pursued much-younger Zadie, she had the upper hand; right down to the miserly allowance she hands out each week. Ruth obsessively loves the idea of Zadie; the attractiveness of Zadie. But Heaven forbid Zadie has individual wants, needs, or thoughts! An

There is no reading or event on Monday 27 October. Our programme continues with this new play reading on Monday 3 November ​ ​THOMAS CRANMER - THE ACCIDENTAL MARTYR​ by Neil Weatherall,  7.30pm, Monday 3 November - Upstairs @ North London Tavern “Thomas Cranmer was the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and the first ever to (openly) take a wife. When the Catholic Queen Mary comes to the throne, Thomas is imprisoned in the Tower of London, charged with heresy, which ca

There is no reading or event on Monday 27 October. Our programme continues with this new play reading on Monday 3 November ​ ​THOMAS CRANMER - THE ACCIDENTAL MARTYR​ by Neil Weatherall,  7.30pm, Monday 3 November - Upstairs @ North London Tavern “Thomas Cranmer was the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and the first ever to (openly) take a wife. When the Catholic Queen Mary comes to the throne, Thomas is imprisoned in the Tower of London, charged with heresy, which ca

In the aftermath of her father’s death Amy (19) has taken to wearing a mask. It is time for the world and especially her mother, Celia,...

Returning  from a holiday, Alison and Ken find themselves locked out of the UK, following a political shift. They’re confronted by Barry...

Time to start working on your entry into our autumn short play competition For this latest contest, the theme is MAKE US LAUGH The chosen...

Alex Marker is resident designer and leading ‘spokesman’ for the Finborough Theatre (as well as being Artistic Director of the Questors...

Players Playwrights returns for a new season of fresh plays as well as our season contest and talks with RETRIBUTION. Three new short...

A FORGOTTEN STAR is a play about the career of Jonathan’s father, John Stuart, a popular star of the British silent films in the 1920s....

​The play is a two-hander concerning Michael - in his early 20s and in middle age - and his battle with, and attempts to explain,...

Film examiners at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) examine in pairs, deciding whether a work warrants U, PG, 15, 18 or 'er...

Kimberley Andrews is the co-founder of the London Playwrights Workshop (LPW) (www.londonplaywrights.org) and will be our speaker next...

An original lyrical monologue written by Clive Moffatt. This autobiographical work captures the playful innocence of youth, the triumphs...

A retired teacher is visited by a special woman from his past. He falls in love with her, much to the consternation of his controlling...

Make England Great Again (re-titled from 'England's Trumpers') is a very timely play set in the near future, after the Britons...

Ish He Real? is comedy, farce, melodrama for Today.  Life today. Who Controls? Drones, satellites, mobile phones, media ... and spirit....

Air Raids and Good Hair Days by Karen Rigby 7.30pm, Monday 12 May at the North London Tavern   Air Raids and Good Hair Days is set in...

Life After Bill, a dark comedy drama, concerns Aileen, a woman in a dead marriage, who derives pleasure from reading the romantic novels...

This is a play about the lies a family keeps to hold itself together; it is about the dark cloud of terminal illness pulling at the seams...

This is a play about the lies a family keeps to hold itself together; it is about the dark cloud of terminal illness pulling at the seams...