Playscripts

Dream of Perfect Sleep
by Kevin Kautzman
Bloomsbury Publishing
Dream of Perfect Sleep is the story of an ageing couple, Mary and Gene, and their adult children - recovering-addict Robert and new-ager Melissa. Mary suffers from severe vertigo and just wants to wat…

Dream of the Dog
by Craig Higginson
Bloomsbury Publishing
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, shortly after the millennium. Patricia and Richard Wiley, an elderly white couple, are packing up to leave the farm they’ve sold to developers. Their preparations are inte…

Dubailand
by Carmen Nasr
Samuel French Ltd
An oasis of free enterprise, no income taxes, no unions, no opposition parties. A paradise of consumption. A skyline on crack. Urban planning on steroids – Dubai. On the 88th floor of an unfinished sk…

Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi
by Pam Gems
Bloomsbury Publishing
'My loves, what are we to do? We don't do as they want any more, and they hate it. What are we to do?' Four determinedly 'liberated' – and very different – women ricochet around a tiny shared flat, w…

Eden's Empire
by James Graham
Bloomsbury Publishing
Fifty years ago, Britain propelled itself into a disastrous war in the Middle East. Condemned by the UN and accused of falsifying intelligence, the Prime Minister was left fighting for his political l…

Emily Dickinson & I
by Edie Campbell and Jack Lynch
Black Spring Press Ltd
An actress decides to write a one-woman play about her favourite poet, Emily Dickinson, and finds herself on an unexpected journey: when is a biographical portrayal not autobiographical? Emily Dickins…