By Stephen Poliakoff. Nuclear power catastrophe drama with plant worker Francesca Annis obsessively liberating a consignment of plutonium from a power station,...
Brian Clark’s sequel to 1975’s The Saturday Party. Peter Barkworth has recovered from his redundancy, and now owns a country restaurant. When...
Unusual move into historical drama from Jim Allen, but still true to his Trotskyite roots and belief in basing drama on solid...
By Brian Clark. Another education-themed one-act play, shown on the same night as Gotcha! Comprehensive head Julian Curry finds himself defending his...
Central, and best remembered, play in Gimme Shelter, Barrie Keeffe’s trilogy of related single-act dramas set in or around a storage shed...
The second play in Hines’ double bill, which was suggested by Hines’ producer Tony Garnett, overshadows the first, in many senses. Opening...
First of two linked plays by Barry Hines about life in a colliery community, directed by Ken Loach and featuring a quartet...
It's foxy time!
By Charles Wood. Angela Down is a rape victim whom no-one will take seriously.
By Mike Stott. Maternity comedy with Bernard Hill and Alison Steadman expecting their first baby, and opting for the then-modish ‘natural’ childbirth...
Shy and sarcastic teenage Oldham undertaker’s assistant Trevor (David Threlfall) knocks about with drinking pal Ronnie (John Wheatley) and his girlfriend Sandra...
By Malcolm Bradbury. Brummie couple Stephen Moore and Barbara Flynn court during the Suez crisis. 20 years later, against the backdrop of...
'Bit over the top, isn't it?' 'No idea, it's not actually on telly.'
By Rhys Adrian. Tony Britton is a businessman hounded by the failing economy and his increasingly hazardous extra-marital affair, getting slowly drunk...
By Colin Welland. Young boy Joseph Reynolds loses his dad in an IRA bomb blast and moves out to his uncle’s remote...
By Roy Kendall. Trouble arises when Frances de la Tour hires Sharon Duce as a nanny. With Bernard Hill.
Jon Morrison, supposedly gainfully employed as far as his family are concerned, instead takes off to the Scottish hillsides every day, and...
Coming of age? Schmoming of schmage. (Hmm, might need to rethink that.)
Adaptation of a short story by the famed Spanish poet and author Federico Garcia Lorca of the conflict between a young woman...
Dennis Potter on... Dennis Potter. And sex.
By Peter Prince. Pop Musician Paul Nicholas is left literally holding the baby when his wife walks out. With Tom Conti, Amanda...
By EA Whitehead. John Hurt plays a salesman of anti-depressants and other drugs, whose wife discovers his affair with a female doctor.
By Beryl Bainbridge. Two ‘singles’, Rosemary Leach and Michael Gambon, are ‘introduced’ to each other by well-meaning friends, but the encounter doesn’t...
By Bill Bryden. Story of the beginnings of revolutionary socialism, set amongst the shipyards of greenock during the first half of the...
Rare incursion into play for today from the Godfather of the original theatrical kitchen sink explosion, Arnold Wesker. Elizabeth Spriggs tries to...
Trilogy of one-act plays adapted by Bill Craig from short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, all dealing with the way the Scottish...
Public school glam rock a-go-go!
By Tom Hadaway. Neil Phillips is a young trawlerman working his way up the fishing hierarchy in various encounters in a harbour.
By John Hopkins. Jon Laurimore and Geoffrey Palmer are police investigating a brutal murder on a high-rise estate, but finding fear of...
By Alick Rowe. John Barrett returns to his remote hill farm after 20 years to deal with some unfinished business, and finds...
Experimental codswallop.
A pair of lisping middle-class types getting back to nature
By Watson Gould. ‘Angry young lesbian artist’ Jane Lapotaire disrupts the lives of upper class lover Lynne Frederick and middle-aged alcoholic Michael...
Jewish wartime misfittery.
The original outing for John Mortimer's bellicose bailiff
By Leon Griffiths. A superficially light-hearted tale of Asians attempting illegal immigration from Amsterdam to British shores on a fishing vessel. Starring...
Harrowing and immensely popular look at NHS hospital life from the patient’s point of view, written by Trevor Griffiths after reading a...
By John Challen. Bleak tale of an awkward young boy whose brief success as a chorister is scuppered by puberty. Leonard Rossiter...
By Michael O’Neill and Jeremy Seabrook. The passengers caught up in an airline hijack drama sweat it out, among them Georgina Hale...
PfT acting veteran Brian Glover’s first foray into writing for the strand. Weight-lifting pigeon fancier David Daker neglects wife Susan Tracy, so...
By Hugh Whitemore and Helene Hanff. Frank Finlay owns the titular bookshop in this famous tale of a real bookshop proprietor’s long-term...
By Bernard Kops. Warren Mitchell is a Jewish East End miser who changes his outlook when his only real love, son Sthephen...
A companion piece to the previous week’s Plaintiffs and Defendants. Peter (Dinsdale Landen) and Hilary (Georgina Hale) wake up, facing the prospect...
Peter (Alan Bates), a divorce lawyer in the thick of middle age, wakes up in the bed-sit of his graphic designer mistress...
Paul Thompson’s “bourgeois fantasy” about an imaginary fascist regime of the near future, and the tribulations of young dissidents in City Zone...
By Peter Prince. Comic study of a court case awaiting hearing, with Richard Beckinsale as a solicitor’s clerk acting for his sick...
Brechtian distanciation which is all very well in the theatre but doesn't really work on the telly
By Wilson John Haire. Examined the Belfast Troubles through the eyes of a young girl missing her AWOL father, and counting the...
By Arthur Hopcraft. Two women have romantic encounters on their afternoon off in an out-of-hours drinking club.
By Brian Clark. Stockbroker Peter Barkworth is made redundant but goes ahead with his planned Christmas party anyway, bringing a different air...
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