Joss Ackland gost bust in style.
Peter McD lifts off!
One in the oven for Patricia Brake.
Glover and pals go boating.
Bill Maynard has it away
John Collin fights the council when they plan to demolish his home to make way for a bypass in Michael O’Neill and...
Gwen Taylor goes to Hull.
Willis Hall’s Golden Gordon-ish tale of defiant football manager Colin Blakely (who ‘once played for England’) in terminal decline. Also with Peter...
Keith Barron has a gammy hand.
John Burrows and John Harding’s two-man show transferred from the Edinburgh Fringe, examining the myths surrounding British heroism, in particular the Battle...
George Lazenby, asset stripping and blow jobs.
Joss Ackland plays a reluctant divorcee, pondering chances of reuniting with his wife while taking his kids on a day trip to...
Liz Smith 'does'. And then doesn't.
Lawyers, defendants and even his own daughter all have it in for a maverick judge, Alexander Knox. David Hare’s first play for...
Kes with cups instead of, um, birds.
By David Halliwell. David Hill returns home to Brighouse with his new fiancee after being driven away 15 years earlier.
By Penelope Mortimer. Couple Hywel Bennett and Caroline Mortimer are rocked by the arrival of an old flame of Mortimer’s. With Fulton...
By John Harvey Flint. Robert Lang’s dull life takes a turn for the dramatic after he reluctantly takes on the role of...
Two male students have to sort themselves out when a girl moves in with them.
Rosalind Ayres finds she can cope on her own when her husband goes to prison for two years. When he gets out...
Barbara Ferris and James Bolam are an estranged couple still trying to reconcile with each other by sending drafts of a co-written...
Celia Johnson turns in an award-winning performance as the titular new tenant in a retirement home, desperately trying to keep up appearances....
Life-sentenced prisoners with little hope of release busy themselves with activities, in particular a panto production of Goldilocks. By ex-lag Jimmy O’Connor....
Old and young members of a Gilbert and Sullivan society get under each other’s feet in the run-up to a special Jubilee...
By John Bowen. Richard Pasco lives out of a suitcase in Battersea and is tormented by his rapidly fading memory of his...
By Douglas Livingstone. A retired couple begin to find life tough going after a year in a seaside bungalow bought for them...
By Peter Hankin. Respectable snob Priscilla Morgan is unduly worried about a visit from her daughter’s schoolfriend.
By Tony Perrin. In a deserted Potteries factory, closed for the mass holiday excursions of Wakes Week, young electrician Freddie Fletcher arrives...
By Nemone Lethbridge. Zena Walker finally has a baby after receiving specialist treatment for ten years – then the problems really start.
By Arthur Hopcraft. Colin Farrell’s various Christmas and Boxing Day gatherings with family and mates bring issues and problems to the surface.
By Barry Collins. The arrival of a poet in a Yorkshire village arouses suspicion in local farmers, and sexual longing in farm...
Bill Fraser Labours a point.
A gang of Deptford street kids races against local dockers to retrieve a promising-looking abandoned barrel from the Thames. Devised by Brian...
It's grim in pet shops.
Comic drama of friendships and deals made and broken in a men’s sauna. Jack Rosenthal’s first work for the strand.
Frank Windsor plays the titular head with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position in this first play submitted unsolicited by then...
Wet dreams and pagan loons.
By Michael Sadler. After a school sports day humiliation, teacher Wallace Pidgeon (Jack Shepherd) comes under pressure from all corners – his...
Third outing for Peter Terson’s trio of mining idiots-at-large from The Fishing Party – Art (Brian Glover), Ern (Ray Mort) and Abe...
Scottish country dancing, militant style.
Dennis Potter's Model World.
By Brian Clark. A couple in an old people’s home develop a close friendship, and eventually marry.
Colin Welland delves into a favourite subject of Play for Today writers, industrial relations, with a look at a strike in a...
By David Edgar. Patti Love undergoes a traumatic stillbirth, steals a baby, is arrested and sentenced to – appropriately enough – nine...
By Julia Jones. Lynne Jones develops a bond with Rachel Roberts, a reclusive widow in the Welsh mountains she delivers newspapers to.
A day in the life of a basement bevelling (grinding the bevelled edges and decorative grooves into plate glass) workshop in Glasgow,...
By Joyce Neary. Soldier George Sweeney returns to his parents’ in Ulster after six years’ service, and finds they don’t want him...
By Sean Walsh. Franciscan friar Stephen Rea goes on the run from the order. Based on Walsh’s real life experience. With David...
Pauline Quirke pisses off.
Immensely popular play by Philip Martin exploring the Birmingham underworld, in particular the ‘Blackbird Run’ of illegal immigrants. Maurice Colborne is an...
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