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....

SAVING GRACE - A RADIO COMEDY BY KAREN BARTHOLOMEW A middle-aged and uncompromising comedy, SAVING GRACE follows divorcee Grace -...

On The Verge by Mary Conway Married couple Warwick and Ella keep themselves to themselves and, in fact, have stopped going out altogether....

For this term’s competition, 'SAME CHARACTER, DIFFERENT DAY' Members are asked to place a familiar fictional character in an unfamiliar...

Laurel and Hancock by Clive Goodman In 1960s Hollywood Stan Laurel is retired and in the phone book. Anyone, from his fans, to world...

Monday night reading: Survival of the Fittest by Ian Reade Survival Of The Fittest is a thirty-minute pilot episode for a TV show about a...

Two new short plays from playwright Member Robert Frew: LUNCH DATE Dan and Abi are having an affair, of sorts, which plays out through...

Player Playwrights had an amazing response to our call out to Members for short monologue pieces. So much so that we are having TWO...