Playscripts

JEANNIE
by Aimee Stuart
Samuel French Ltd
It is 1936 in a “wee one-eyed” town in Scotland. Jeannie is a drudge for her mean controlling father, but dreams of a different life. When she receives a large inheritance, she seizes the opportunity …

Homos, or Everyone in America
by Jordan Seavey
Nick Hern Books
Equality is here – now what? In a supposedly 'post-gay' America on the brink of passing marriage equality, a first date at a New York bar starts two men on a fearless, funny and fragmented journey lea…

Checkpoint Chana
by Jeff Page
Bloomsbury Publishing
Poet Bev Hemmings is in the eye of a storm after she publishes a poem that the world seems to believe is anti-Semitic. She's convinced she's innocent, but everyone else – including her PA, Tamsin – wa…

Returning to Haifa
by Ghassan Kanafani, Adapted by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace
Faber & Faber
A compelling story of two families - one Palestinian, one Israeli - forced by history into an intimacy they didn't choose. In 1948, Palestinian couple Said and Safiyya fled their home during the Nakba…

Booby’s Bay
by Henry Darke
Bloomsbury Publishing
Above a secluded cove in Cornwall, Huck, a former fisherman, is squatting in an empty second home. The holiday season is fast approaching, but he refuses to budge. Huck grew up here, but he can't affo…

Quaint Honour
by Roger Gellert
Bloomsbury Publishing
A boy's boarding school in the late 1950s. Homosexuality in the UK is illegal, but behind closed doors and behind the back of the Headmaster, gay sexual activity between the students is rife. When one…