Historical
Historical plays transport audiences to pivotal moments in time — wars, revolutions, royal courts and ordinary lives caught in extraordinary circumstances. With over 420 titles spanning ancient civilisations to the twentieth century, our collection gives directors rich source material for productions that educate and enthrall.
Jane Eyre - Oberon Edition by The Company from Charlotte Bronte Sense And Sensibility by Jane Austen Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-lori Parks Peter Pan by Jm. Barrie A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Arthur Riordan from James Joyce Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières Miss Bennet: Christmas At Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson The Sweet Science Of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson The Secret River (Stage Version) by Kate Grenville A Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht trans Mark Ravenhill The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood A Tale Of Two Cities by Mike Poulton from Charles Dickens Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm Plays Of The American Experience by Thomas Hischak The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by Angus Jackson from John Boyne The Complete History Of Comedy (Abridged) by Reed Martin Anna Karenina by Helen Edmundson from Leo Tolstoy Cyrano De Bergerac by Glyn Maxwell from Edmond Rostand Dr. Frankenstein by Selma Dimitrijević A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain One Night In Miami... by Kemp Powers Cure At Troy by Seamus Heaney Venus In Fur by David Ives Jessica Swale's Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale The Wider Earth by David Morton Ada And The Engine by Lauren Gunderson Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot, Or, Holmes For The Holidays by Ken Ludwig Machinal by Sophie Treadwell Fanny & Alexander by Stephen Beresford from Ingmar Bergman Boudica by Tristan Bernays The Woman in White by Nicola Boyce from Wilkie Collins Oslo by J T. Rogers Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale Desdemona by Toni Morrison Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie Equivocation by Bill Cain John Steinbeck's East Of Eden by Frank Galati Pressure by David Haig Imperium by Robert Harris Peter and Alice by John Logan Unicorns, Almost by Owen Sheers The Canterbury Tales - Love and Marriage by Reiner Prochaska from Geoffrey Chaucer Emilie by Lauren Gunderson An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-jenkins Shakespeare in Love by Lee Hall from the Screenplay Jekyll And Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Crucible by Susan Abbotson Everyman by Carol Ann Duffy Cranford by Laura Turner from Elizabeth Gaskell Horniman's Choice by Stanley Houghton Stephen Jeffreys by Stephen Jeffreys The House That Will Not Stand by Marcus Gardley The Slaves of Solitude by Nicholas Wright Jefferson's Garden by Timberlake Wertenbaker The Witch Of Edmonton by Lucy Munro The Audience by Peter Morgan In The Next Room, Or, The Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl Home, I'm Darling by Laura Wade The Glove Thief by Beth Flintoff