The Competition of Competitions is the play-off of the six winners and runners-up from the three short play competitions of 2018....

‘The Powers That Be’ by Melville Lovatt Matt and Gary are ‘minding’ a man and awaiting instructions from the powers that be. Instructions...

The annual Player Playwright awards have been revealed Best Actor: Johnny Hansler; runner up Phil Philmar Best Actress: Lynne O’Sullivan...

The annual Players Playwright Christmas Party includes buffet, canapes and a full entertainment programme of songs, skits and short...

Eveline has escaped her humdrum life in Dublin to live with Frank in Buenos Aires. However, Frank is not the success she believed, and...

An evening of insight with a talented and experienced writer from the worlds of TV, radio and stage dramas. Danny writes scripts for TV...

Congratulations to Lynne O'Sullivan, whose play 'THE UNKINDNESS OF STRANGERS was voted winner on Monday's Player Playwright Short Play...

See all the finalists in this term's short play competition for Members. The theme is UNDISCOVERED GEMS. Writers were asked to...

There is no play reading or talk this coming Monday. However all Player Playwright members are very welcome to attend and take part in...

A man wakes, trussed to a table in a cellar. Behind him is a woman with a knife and an agenda. It is his ex-girlfriend, Fiona. She has...

Martin Jameson is an award winning radio playwright with over eighty credits for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 spanning three decades. His most...

As people live longer and institutional care in old age becomes harder to find, a new generation of carers – mostly women – has emerged....

A comedy in one act. The carefree annual tournament at the Saffron Walden Lawn Tennis Club is marred only by the occasional shower – and...

Schools are closed, doctors are on strike and motorists have to queue for hours for a litre of fuel. A once great democracy is in crisis...

The 503 Theatre in Battersea, south London, has built a reputation as one of the most important theatres in the UK for new work and for...

1968. The Counterculture is in full swing and Revolution is in the air, from San Francisco to Grosvenor Square, but does the ordinary...

​ Congratulations to Sally Sheringham, whose play 'It's Over' won the recent annual PP short play competition. This year's theme was ...

An interactive response to the Grenfell fire. The show explores the history of social housing and the shadow cast by the tragedy....

A selection of Members' short play entries created on the theme The Eternal Triangle. Audience will vote on their favourite on the night....

Player Playwright members and playwrights including Kevin Mandry, Martin McNamara, Francis Beckett and Tony Diggle on their experiences...