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...

The final instalment in Jim Mannering’s trilogy of twisted thrillers. We have peaked through the floorboards into the basement of a group...

An evening with Dave Cohen, comedian, founder member of the Comedy Store Players with Mike Myers and Paul Merton and now one of the top...

Congratulations to the winners of our first Player Playwright short play contest of 2019. The entry judged to be best the audience was...

The first Player Playwright short play contest of the year, with six great new works from our Members, all related, in some way, to the...

Adam’s mother has had a fall. Returning from Canada with his new bride, Adam discovers that she has lost none of her ways and wiles....

The deadline for entries in the upcoming Player Playwrights short play contest has been extended to 25th February, so get scribbling! The...

Travelers by David Conway Travelers is about Irish tinkers, or travelers. Molly, and her husband Johnny are quarrelling about the fate of...