By Robert Holman. School leaver Martyn Hesford joins the army.
By Stephen Fagan. A mutually beneficial upper middle class social circle begins to exert undue pressure on two of its members.
By Ian Cullen and John Norton. Margaret Kelly plays a 14 year old child of a large Irish travelling family, who finds...
By John Byrne. First of a semi-autobiographical trilogy from the writer of Tutti Frutti, detailing the tribulations of a young man with...
By Jim Hawkins and Horace Ove. Account of the 1975 Spaghetti House Siege, when three black men held up a Knightsbridge Italian...
By Andrew Carr. Post-Jonestown indictment of personality cults, with a sinister Simon Callow as ‘Maximillian Schreiber’, taking an assortment of gullibles under...
Harrowing story of the brutal treatment inflicted on a four-year-old boy, in a typically unflinching play from GF Newman, the creator of...
'See me, right..?'
By Andrew Taylor. Paul Henley plays a sexually repressed and confused young man, whose reticence gives rise to speculation among friends and...
Laugh, you buggers, laugh!
By Stephen Lowe. Watchmaker Paul Copley is made redundant by the dreaded silicon chip.
By Neville Smith. Smith writes and stars as Christian Harvey, disc jockey and obsessive Elvis Presley fan, presenting his radio show when...
By James Andrew Hall. Anton Rodgers plays a happily closeted homosexual writer called Lewis Duncan, not at all bothered by his double...
By Tony Perrin. Communism, picket lines and suspicion threaten the peace of a quiet Cheshire village.
By Rachel Billington. A young wife tries to cope with her abusive husband, with Susan Fleetwood and Christopher Godwin.
By Alma Cullen. Jennie Linden plays a single mum and mature student at a Scottish university, continually at odds with the mindless...
By Douglas Dunn. Joseph Brady is a Scottish ploughman of the old school, coping with redundancy. Featuring Iain ‘Fingermouse‘ Lauchlan.
By Ron Hutchinson. Detective Constable Ken Campbell is transferred to Belfast, taking digs in a run-down boarding house called The Crumlin View,...
A departure from Mike Leigh, centring on the social mores among a firm of stockbrokers. Obsequious junior partner Alan (Richard Kane) is...
A wartime countryside idyll (closely modelled, of course, on Dennis Potter’s Forest of Dean domain) is populated by seven-year-old children playing in...
By Barrie Keeffe. The author of Gotcha! and self-styled writer of plays aimed at “people who wouldn’t be seen dead in a...
By John Elliot. A man is strangely reluctant to help police when his wife is murdered.
Too much Hammer!
By Ron Hutchinson. Joe Lynch is the self-made head of a building firm in trouble during a topping-out ceremony for a new...
Local newspaper, nothing happens - the excitement!
A play we haven't seen, but we do have it on good authority that it's a pile of shit.
Two linked plays, Audience and Private View, by the dissident Czech writer Vaclav Havel (and thus presumably written when he was hiding...
By James Duthie. Gerrard Kelly and Sylvestra le Touzel star in an across-the-divides Scottish teenage romance. With Gregor Fisher.
Small-time London boxing promoter Dinny Matthews (John Thaw) is disillusioned. He has seven fighters, “all tryers”, but none of them share his...
A comic look at popular notions of disability and “rights” from Good Life scripters John Esmonde and Bob Larbey. In a Hounslow...
By Tom Clarke. Black South African exile John Kani has trouble adapting to London life, in a play which swings from comedy...
By Jehane Markham. Soviet doctor Eleanor Bron, in despair at having to ‘treat’ dissidents locked up by the state in psychiatric hospitals,...
Dramatisation of the trial of Willie Gallagher, accused and convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976. Originally scheduled as...
Caryl Churchill’s study of the complexities of charity work and the contradictions in charitable acts, performed in a style more like late...
This Willy Russell musical ensemble piece isn’t usually counted as a ‘true’ Play for Today because it wasn’t billed as such, but...
Adapted by David Edgar from his epic RSC stage production (the original draft of which ran to five hours in length), Edgar’s...
Single mother Christine Hargreaves struggles with mounting debt and callous social workers in this highly polemical and unremittingly bleak diatribe against government...
Alan Garner, author of supernatural ITV hit series The Owl Service adapts his own obscure, semi-mystical novel detailing the lives of three...
In 1941, in a remote country house near Wendelsham, somewhere in southern England, nineteen-year-old upper class girl Anna Seaton (Kate Nelligan) arrives...
The first TV glimpse of Alan Bleasdale’s alienated, down-at-heel scouse youth Franny Scully, as he invites his mates to gatecrash his mum’s...
Which version's best? There's only one way to find out...
By Sean McCarthy. Tensions flare during a prolonged power cut. With Miriam Margolyes.
By Antonia Fraser. Below and above stairs relations in a Scottish manor house, presided over by Martin Jarvis.
‘A charade in two acts’ from the always-reliable Stewart Parker (his first televised work) making a wry, poignant farce out of the...
By Henry Livings. Mayor Thora Hird causes a stir when she appoints Ex-Warrant Officer Frank Windsor as her mace bearer. With Roy...
By Denis Conran. A look at the lives of people in an Alcoholics Anonymous group.
By Barrie Keeffe. 13 year old John Fowler, with a dead father and a mum more interested in getting her end away...
By Mary O’Malley. A planned mixed marriage brings problems for Catholic Cheryl Hall and Jewish Robert Whelan. With Linda Robson.
Get ready to miss the point, Mr Lawson!
By Robin Chapman. Plumber’s mates become embroiled in plans for a workers’ revolt in Manchester.
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