Howard, a young man, wakes up in a psychiatric unit. Ten years ago he lost his mother under unknown circumstances. The reasons behind his...

A selection of short plays written by Player Playwrights members on the theme of The Kindness of Strangers and performed by our troupe of...

Stage debut of a duo of monologues that take us into the minds of two iconic women from the last century in the final moments of their...

Monday, 25th September: Machine in the Ghost / Jealous Halo / Menage a Tepid Three new short plays get their stage reading debut. ...

Player Playwrights returns Monday, 11th September with an exclusive talk by Debbie Simmons, licensing manager, Samuel French with...

Player Playwright is taking its Summer holiday. We return Monday, 11th September with an exclusive talk by Debbie Simmons, licensing...

The Player Playwrights annual competition for short plays, open to members and non-members. Stage readings of the four top plays: Like Us...

Stage reading of SW1PE is a one act, two-handed play about modern online dating relationships. The first part examines the desire, the...

Mark Jagasia is a former Fleet Street journalist turned award winning playwright. He talks about the practicalities of getting your play...

Eight brand new shorts - from dramas to comedies - written by member-writers of Player Playwrights and submitted anonymously. The theme...

In Belle Époque Paris, failed artist Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, as an act of political protest that would...

An exclusive chance to catch a stage preview of 3-into-2, the latest television comedy from the legendary writing team of Laurence Marks...

The title speaks for itself. This play emerges from the Player Playwrights Collaborative Group and is created from scenes written by...

Wild Women by Mary Conway Alone in the provinces while her husband is away, Marianne struggles to cope with the demands of her new baby...

Marc Blake has taught sitcom since 1994 and is the author of How NOT to write Sitcom (A&C Black 2011) Writing the Comedy Movie...

Competition Night A regular feature in the Player Playwrights calendar. We present a selection of short original plays from our Members....

Stage-reading of Whatever Happened to Rick Marks, a comedy for the theatre by Francis Beckett. Rick Marks – the beautiful, charismatic,...

Join us next Monday for a staged reading of The Fox, a short play by new writer-member Christian Kinde. Based on a story by DH Lawrence,...

Young children are dying on the operating table. Why? Gagged is about the NHS, and a junior doctor’s struggle to prevent child mortality...

Mary Kenny is a distinguished journalist who recently re-joined P-P for a try-out of CONVERSATION BEFORE A HANGING. This is her...