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Playwrights introduce key extracts from scripts they have written that are yet to be staged 

  • ‘It’s really hard to express the pain of not being able to say your own name.’

    Captain Chatter and the stammering student: Ross Willis on his play Wonder Boy

    Our series of extracts from new scripts continues with a play capturing the frustration and worries of 12-year-old schoolboy Sonny
  • A detail from Gin Lane by William Hogarth.

    Gin Craze: the moral panic about 'mother's ruin' still demonises women

    Our series of extracts from unstaged scripts continues with a musical giving voice to the working-class women whose lives were changed by alcohol
  • Sanctuary and community in the salon.

    Pluck and pamper: Lotus Beauty waxes lyrical about the salon

    Our series of extracts from unstaged scripts continues with a play that explores what it means to be Asian and female in modern suburbia
  • Football players

    Fair Play: power games in the changing room of a women's football team

    Our series of extracts from unstaged scripts continues with Tamsin Oglesby’s play about whether a squad – all women and run by women – can win in a different way
  • Some twenty members of parliament, peers, political candidates and trade union leaders addressed a mass protest demonstration in Trafalgar Square, against the betrayal of Spanish democracy. Ellen Wilkinson addressing the demonstration in London, on Feb. 26, 1939. (AP Photo)

    Red Ellen: keeping up with the firebrand MP who led the Jarrow march

    With England’s theatres under lockdown, our series of extracts from unstaged scripts continues with a play about 1940s Labour minister Ellen Wilkinson
  • Perversity and pessimism ... are they the key to the White House?

    The strategist who could have put Hillary in power: Christopher Shinn on his play The Narcissist

    Continuing our Future Plays series, the writer introduces an extract from his unstaged script about a disillusioned ex-Clinton adviser navigating the slow-motion apocalypse of US politics
  • Tay Road Bridge, Dundee.

    Hindu Times: Jaimini Jethwa invites the deities to Dundee

    The Guardian’s Future plays series continues with Vishnu and Brahma trying to restore the balance of good and evil on a boozy night out
  • Ruins of the Constable’s Quarters in Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island.

    Sheep on Fire in Penal Australia: Abbie Spallen on her breathtaking Norfolk Island epic

  • Most UK theatres have not yet resumed performances.

    Guardian to spotlight dazzling unstaged scripts in a new series

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