Find out about the latest work from your fellow Player Playwrights Members
If you're a Member and have some new production or other work to share, let us know
Latest news
Art by Peter Carty
​
A visionary curator sets up a gallery in a decaying warehouse in Hoxton, bringing together a group of radical young artists at a seminal moment in British art. But as they produce stellar new work and prepare to storm the bastions of the art establishment, ruthless property developers are gentrifying the area and pushing them out. Art is a dark satire about the birth of Young British Artists in the 90s.
A gloriously vivid debut - the I
​
The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher
2/30pm, 25 April 2024
Upstairs At The Gatehouse
The play, by Edmund Green, charts how Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly won the leadership and charts her controversial time in office up to her removal.
This is a stage reading by professional actors
Tom Lehrer is Teaching Math and Doesn’t Want to Talk to You
May 28 to June 9
Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate Village
​
The latest play from Francis Beckett is an exploration of why renowned satirist and singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, at the height of his fame in the early sixties, gave it all up and spent the rest of his working life as an obscure Maths lecturer. Along the way, we get in a lot of his biggest hits: The Elements (of course), Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, We Will All Go Together When We Go, and many more.
​
HEMINGS & CONDELL by Martin Keady
Hemings & Condell is the greatest untold story in history: the tale of the men who saved Shakespeare.
No Hemings & Condell...No Shakespeare.
​
Now available to listen on Soundcast for free