Plays Read

2024

Ulster American - David Ireland

The Welkin - Lucy Kirkwood 

Wife After Death - Eric Chappell

What's in a Name? - Alexandre de La Patellière & Matthieu Delaporte 

Equus - Peter Shaffer 

The Hard Problem - Tom Stoppard

The People Next Door - Henry Adams

The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard

Jeeves & Wooster - David and Robert Goodale based on the original Wodehouse

 

2023

The Unfriend - Steven Moffatt

Middle - David Eldridge

Kerry Jackson - April de Angelis

Ladies Day - Amanda Whittington

Machinal - Sophie Treadwell

Til Death Do Us Part - Safaa Benson-Effiom 

Allelujah! - Alan Bennett

The Comedy Collection - Andrew Biss

 

2022

Stage Struck - Simon Grey

Arsenic & Old Lace - Joseph Kesselring

Abandonment - Kate Atkinson

Time & The Conways - J B Priestley

If I Were You - Alan Ayckbourn

Three Tall Women - Edward Albee

Chez Nous - Peter Nichols

Beginning - David Eldridge

 

2021

2021 Zoom Play Readings

• Home, I'm Darling - Laura Wade
• The Weir - Conor McPherson   
• Master Class - Terrence McNally
• Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
• The Kitchen Sink - Tom Wells
• 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff

Little Wars - Steven Carl McCasland

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

A Doll's House - Ibsen

Life and Beth - Alan Ayckbourn

2020
A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Jay Presson Allen, based on the novel by Muriel Spark
Locke - Steven Knight

2020 Zoom Play Readings:

• Pack of Lies - Hugh Whitemore
• The Norman Conquests - Alan Ayckbourn
• (1) Table Manners 
• (2) Living Together 
• (3) Round & Round the Garden
• Abigail's Party - Mike Leigh
• Deathtrap - Ira Levin
• The Audience - Peter Morgan
• Rookery Nook - Ben Travers
• Three Short Plays from one-act-plays.com
  - Chocolate Affair
  - 10,000 Cigarettes
  - The Angel Intrudes
• Single Spies - Alan Bennett
• Plunder - Ben Travers
• Murder at the Empress (https://proplay.ws/comedies/)
• Only Fools and Horses and other sketches

2019
The Memory of Water - Shelagh Stephenson
The Lady Killers - Graham Linehan

Playhouse Creatures - April De Angelis

The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams

The Return of A J Raffles - Graham Greene

A Bunch of Amateurs - Ian Hislop & Nick Newman

Snake in the Grass - Alan Ayckbourn
Gas Light - Patrick Hamilton
Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal

Allelujah! - Alan Bennett

2018
The Hollow - Agatha Christie
August: Osage County - Tracy Letts
The Master Builder - Ibsen
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf - Edward Albee
One Man, Two Guvnors - Richard Bean
Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill
Ink - James Graham
Top Girls - Caryl Churchill
The Red Shoes - Musical based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen
Perfect Nonsense - Based on the Jeeves & Wooster stories of P.G. Wodehouse

2017
Death and the Maiden - Ariel Dorfman

Accidental Death of an Anarchist - Dario Fo
Suddenly at Home - Francis Durbridge
Hedda Gabler - Ibsen
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Time of my Life - Alan Ayckbourn
Appointment with Death - Agatha Christie
Anna Karenina
London Assurance - Dion Boucicalt
Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn

2016
Love, Loss and What I Wore - Nora & Delia Ephron
The Hard Problem - Sir Tom Stoppard
The Father - Florian Zeller
Pat & Margaret - Victoria Wood
A Doll's House - Ibsen
Amy's View - David Hare
Popcorn - Ben Elton
Uncle Vanya - Chekhov
Arms & The Man - George Bernard Shaw

 
2015
Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
Blithe Spirit - Noël Coward 
Sleuth - Anthony Shaffer 
The Real Inspector Hound - Tom Stoppard and 
Sotoba Komachi - Mishima (a Noh Play)
The Rivers of China - Alma de Groen
The Visitor - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Habeas Corpus - Alan Bennett
When we are Married - J B Priestley
The Women - Clare Boothe Luce
Dangerous Corner - J B Priestley 
The Play That Went Wrong - Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer

2014
Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde
The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler
Separate Tables - Parts 1 & 2 - Terence Rattigan

Educating Rita - Willy Russell

God of Carnage - Yasmina Reza 

An Inspector Calls - J B Priestley

Relative Values - Noel Coward

Living Together - Alan Ayckbourn

Round & Round the Garden - Alan Ayckbourn

2013

Jumpy - April de Angelis

Taking Steps - Alan Ayckbourn

Look Back in Anger - John Osborne

Equus - Peter Shaffer

People - Alan Bennett

The Audience - Alan Bennett

Tom & Viv - Michael Hastings 

To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee / Christopher Sergel
The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie

2012

Really Old Like 45 - Tamsin Oglesby

Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene & Clive Francis

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Simon Stephens, adapted from the book by Mark Haddon

12 Angry Men - Reginal Rose 

The Life of Riley - Alan Ayckbourn 

The History Boys - Alan Bennett 

Abigail's Party - Mike Leigh 

Deathtrap - Ira Levin 

Journey's End - R C Sherriff 

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

 

2011

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Bazaar & Rummage - Sue Townsend

Calendar Girls - Tim Firth

Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw

Daisy Pulls It Off - Denise Deegan

Barefoot in the Park - Neil Simon

Shirley Valentine - Willy Russell

Season's Greetings - Alan Ayckbourn