Stella returns to visit the husband and children she walked out on many years ago. Her visit exposes a monstrous fiction, her past...

The Quarrel by Jane Weymouth Janice has always had a conflicted relationship with her mother. In adulthood this reaches breaking point....

Monday 21 October, 7.30pm Situation Dog by Ian Reade "Situation Dog” by Ian Reade is a one man show that was described by Papatango...

Monday 14 October, 7.30pm Silly Billy by Michael Sharp Billy, an ailing retired school teacher, and Molly, his long-suffering wife, spend...

Monday 7 October, 7.30pm Spider by Jo Bhouri A story about a father and son; envy, competition and Sheffield snooker. Over 20 years,...

Monday 30 September, 7.30pm ​ Talk with Tamara von Werthern ​ Tamara is Performing Rights Manager for Nick Hern Books, and a playwright...

Player Playwrights returns from its summer break on Monday 23 September, at our usual venue, Upstairs at the North London Tavern, at...

After ten years apart, Roy is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter. He soon discovers that she is not the little girl he...

​Why do we write plays and how do we talk about them? Why do we go to the theatre? How do plays reflect our own lives and, on occasion,...

Congratulations to Joshua Garwood whose entry, WIFI TEA, was the ultimate winner at Monday night's competition. The rules of this contest...

DEBT is set in a debtors prison in London during the early eighteenth century. Incarceration is barely tolerable for prisoners who still...

‘Crusader’ is a play about a young man called Sean whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to radical and dangerous action. The...

There is no Player Playwright reading Monday 27 May because of the Bank Holiday So why not make good use of the time crafting your entry...

Bobby Dazzler is a stage play, running time around 75 minutes. It's a darkly comic tale following the adventures of a raging narcissist...

Monday 13 May - A RARE TREAT & NOT TO BE MISSED Nearly half a century ago Marks and Gran started writing together at Player Playwrights....

Monday 29 April with: Type on Paper by Adam Highland ​ Type On Paper is a play within a play, performed only in the imagination of its...

See me, Jimmy is a one-person play focusing on the development of a white working class male known simply as Jimmy. It follows his...

Ron and Dark Arts by Ian Reade (double bill of short plays) ​ Dark Art is a one act play which begins in the confused aftermath of a...

During the Second World War, our understanding of the depths to which humanity can sink was pushed down to a new and terrible abyss. Two...

THE BOSS is a black farce set in real-time. It takes place over one evening in the office of a paranoid dictator during which the...