Dramatisation by John Elliot and Joel Carlson of the trial of 37 black countrymen from South West Africa, prosecuted for terrorism by...
Jon Morrison plays an eager young mace-twirling Orange Parade leader in Glasgow, gradually finding out the unpleasant, violent truth behind the symbolic...
By Hugh Whitemore. An 18 year middle-class Maida Vale marriage is under threat when the wife walks out. With Peter Cellier, Paul...
By Roy Minton. A day in the life of mental health nurse Tim Preece, struggling with not only the demands of his...
Alan Bennett makes his first contribution to Play for Today with some autobiographical sketches of the fag end of family life. ‘Mam’...
By Willy Russell. A delinquent suspended from an urban school gets a job on a farm, which he really enjoys until events...
By Elaine Feinstein. Angela Pleasance is a young mother isolated by her chronic asthma and descending into paranoia. Gareth Thomas is her...
Social and sexual intrigue from Malcolm Bradbury/Christopher Bigsby set at a dinner party for the manipulative vice-chancellor of a cash-strapped new university...
Immensely popular play by Philip Martin exploring the Birmingham underworld, in particular the ‘Blackbird Run’ of illegal immigrants. Maurice Colborne is an...
Pauline Quirke pisses off.
By Sean Walsh. Franciscan friar Stephen Rea goes on the run from the order. Based on Walsh’s real life experience. With David...
By Joyce Neary. Soldier George Sweeney returns to his parents’ in Ulster after six years’ service, and finds they don’t want him...
A day in the life of a basement bevelling (grinding the bevelled edges and decorative grooves into plate glass) workshop in Glasgow,...
By Julia Jones. Lynne Jones develops a bond with Rachel Roberts, a reclusive widow in the Welsh mountains she delivers newspapers to.
By David Edgar. Patti Love undergoes a traumatic stillbirth, steals a baby, is arrested and sentenced to – appropriately enough – nine...
Colin Welland delves into a favourite subject of Play for Today writers, industrial relations, with a look at a strike in a...
By Brian Clark. A couple in an old people’s home develop a close friendship, and eventually marry.
Dennis Potter's Model World.
Scottish country dancing, militant style.
Third outing for Peter Terson’s trio of mining idiots-at-large from The Fishing Party – Art (Brian Glover), Ern (Ray Mort) and Abe...
By Michael Sadler. After a school sports day humiliation, teacher Wallace Pidgeon (Jack Shepherd) comes under pressure from all corners – his...
Wet dreams and pagan loons.
Frank Windsor plays the titular head with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position in this first play submitted unsolicited by then...
Comic drama of friendships and deals made and broken in a men’s sauna. Jack Rosenthal’s first work for the strand.
It's grim in pet shops.
A gang of Deptford street kids races against local dockers to retrieve a promising-looking abandoned barrel from the Thames. Devised by Brian...
Bill Fraser Labours a point.
By Barry Collins. The arrival of a poet in a Yorkshire village arouses suspicion in local farmers, and sexual longing in farm...
By Arthur Hopcraft. Colin Farrell’s various Christmas and Boxing Day gatherings with family and mates bring issues and problems to the surface.
By Nemone Lethbridge. Zena Walker finally has a baby after receiving specialist treatment for ten years – then the problems really start.
By Tony Perrin. In a deserted Potteries factory, closed for the mass holiday excursions of Wakes Week, young electrician Freddie Fletcher arrives...
By Peter Hankin. Respectable snob Priscilla Morgan is unduly worried about a visit from her daughter’s schoolfriend.
By Douglas Livingstone. A retired couple begin to find life tough going after a year in a seaside bungalow bought for them...
By John Bowen. Richard Pasco lives out of a suitcase in Battersea and is tormented by his rapidly fading memory of his...
Old and young members of a Gilbert and Sullivan society get under each other’s feet in the run-up to a special Jubilee...
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....
Celia Johnson turns in an award-winning performance as the titular new tenant in a retirement home, desperately trying to keep up appearances....
Barbara Ferris and James Bolam are an estranged couple still trying to reconcile with each other by sending drafts of a co-written...
Rosalind Ayres finds she can cope on her own when her husband goes to prison for two years. When he gets out...
Two male students have to sort themselves out when a girl moves in with them.
By John Harvey Flint. Robert Lang’s dull life takes a turn for the dramatic after he reluctantly takes on the role of...
By Penelope Mortimer. Couple Hywel Bennett and Caroline Mortimer are rocked by the arrival of an old flame of Mortimer’s. With Fulton...
By David Halliwell. David Hill returns home to Brighouse with his new fiancee after being driven away 15 years earlier.
Kes with cups instead of, um, birds.
Lawyers, defendants and even his own daughter all have it in for a maverick judge, Alexander Knox. David Hare’s first play for...
Liz Smith 'does'. And then doesn't.
Joss Ackland plays a reluctant divorcee, pondering chances of reuniting with his wife while taking his kids on a day trip to...
George Lazenby, asset stripping and blow jobs.
John Burrows and John Harding’s two-man show transferred from the Edinburgh Fringe, examining the myths surrounding British heroism, in particular the Battle...
Keith Barron has a gammy hand.
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