New contemporary scripts from Concord Theatricals
8 Mar
Get to know some of the latest works from the Concord Theatrical catalogue. These works include contemporary re-telling of classic tales and dramatic works with modern themes.
In a new version by Jack Bradfield and Poltergeist Theatre. Lyrics by Gerel Falconer.
Full Length Play, Drama, Fantasy/Adventure, Present Day, Contemporary
After an explosive argument with Mum at Brixton underground station, eleven-year-old Alice leaps onto the tube seconds before the doors hiss shut. Trapped on a train speeding into Nonsense, surrounded by weird and wonderful passengers, and at the mercy of a Queen who won't relinquish the controls, can Alice turn this train around?
Multi-award-winning company Poltergeist weaves rap music together with the sights and sounds of Brixton into a hundred-mile-an-hour Christmas adventure.
This title is not currently available for performance.
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Marie Antoinette
David Adjmi
Full Length Play, Drama, 18th Century
Cast: 7M, 3F
A theatrical and stylistic retelling of the life and final days of Marie Antoinette.
In David Adjmi's contemporary take on the young queen of France, Marie is a confection created by a society that values extravagance and artifice. But France's love affair with the royals sours as revolution brews, and for Marie, the political suddenly becomes very personal. From the light and breezy banter at the palace to the surging chants of "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!" in the streets, Marie Antoinette holds a mirror up to our contemporary society that might just be entertaining itself to death.
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Cyrano de Bergerac (Crimp)
By Edmond Rostand Freely adapted by Martin Crimp
Full Length Play, Drama, Adaptations (Literature), 17th Century, Contemporary
Cast: 10M, 4F
This "breathtakingly exciting" (Evening Standard) theatrical tour-de-force captures timeless passion through spoken word, contemporary poetry and raw physicality. Cyrano seduces in raps and rhymes, using his linguistic brilliance to help another man win the heart of his one true love, championing - above all - his own unbridled love for words.
A genius with language, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane, but she loves the beautiful but inarticulate Christian. Convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano offers to act as go-between, setting in motion a poignant and often hilarious love triangle in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.
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I, Joan
Charlie Josephine
Full Length Play, Drama, Docudrama/Historic
"Oh if we can just quiet the world for a moment. And listen within. There's a voice guiding you. I promise it's there. And until you can hear it, I'll be it for you."
The men are all fighting, again. An endless war. From nowhere, an unexpected leader emerges. Young, poor and about to spark a revolution. Rebelling against the world's expectations, questioning the gender binary, Joan finds their power within, and their belief spreads like fire. I, Joan is a powerful and joyous new play which tells Joan of Arc's story anew. It's alive and queer and full of hope.
This title is not currently available for performance.
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Flies
Charlie Josephine
Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
Cast: 1M, 7F
A disobedient cultural response to a very well-known story: the male gaze.
Award-winning writer Charlie Josephine (I, Joan, The Globe) radically responds to William Golding's classic Lord of the Flies in their new piece Flies - A powerful and contemporary allegory on consent and the fetishisation of the female body.
This new show explodes with tales of girlhood, and the messy joy and sticky shame that come with it. Written from young women's real experiences expect raw honesty, humour, and sweaty dance.
#WhatAreYouLookingAt
This title is not currently available for performance.
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Birds and Bees
Charlie Josephine
Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
Cast: 4M or F
Leilah is wondering if her Instagram is more of a burden than "living her best life". Billy's queer and proud but ignored by the education system; they're tired of feeling invisible. Aarron is learning how to be a man online, and it's starting to feel toxic. And Maisy, well Maisy's not that into sex, thank you very much. Thrown together, these four confront their differences and realise their power to create change.
Birds and Bees is a new play by critically acclaimed writer Charlie Josephine (I, Joan, Shakespeare's Globe) and a searing exploration of identity, consent, sex positivity, online safety and intersectionality.
This title is not currently available for performance.
You Bury Me
Ahlam
Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
Cast: 3M, 3F, 1M or F
This story is about a city. A city of exhaust fumes, drunken phone calls, first kisses, hysteria, sweat and laughter. Cairo.
Coming of age in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, six young Egyptians navigate friendship, loss and secret Grindr dates in the city that made them.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020, You Bury Me is an explosive political debut from Ahlam about a generation emerging from a national trauma, determined to live and love freely.
This title is not currently available for performance.
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My Brother's Keeper
Mahad Ali
Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
Cast: 5M
Two refugee brothers Aman and Hassan are dispersed to live in a small British seaside town hostile to immigration. In desperate need of business, hotelier Bill Bradley and his son Aidan agree to house them but face animosity from their community for doing so. As Aidan takes Aman under his wing and they draw ever closer, they soon learn the utopia they create for themselves in the hotel is no match for the real world and must confront the hostile climate they live in.
My Brother's Keeper explores the politics of immigration, religion and sexuality as a small British town tries to find its place at a time of great change in the world; a story of love, pain and learning in building community.
This title is not currently available for performance
More recent releases from Concord Theatricals
In a new version by Jack Bradfield and Poltergeist Theatre. Lyrics by Gerel Falconer.
Full Length Play, Drama, Fantasy/Adventure, Present Day, Contemporary
After an explosive argument with Mum at Brixton underground station, eleven-year-old Alice leaps onto the tube seconds before the doors hiss shut. Trapped on a train speeding into Nonsense, surrounded by weird and wonderful passengers, and at the mercy of a Queen who won't relinquish the controls, can Alice turn this train around?
Multi-award-winning company Poltergeist weaves rap music together with the sights and sounds of Brixton into a hundred-mile-an-hour Christmas adventure.
This title is not currently available for performance.
Buy script / more info
Marie Antoinette
David Adjmi
Full Length Play, Drama, 18th Century
Cast: 7M, 3F
A theatrical and stylistic retelling of the life and final days of Marie Antoinette.
In David Adjmi's contemporary take on the young queen of France, Marie is a confection created by a society that values extravagance and artifice. But France's love affair with the royals sours as revolution brews, and for Marie, the political suddenly becomes very personal. From the light and breezy banter at the palace to the surging chants of "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!" in the streets, Marie Antoinette holds a mirror up to our contemporary society that might just be entertaining itself to death.
Buy script / more info
Cyrano de Bergerac (Crimp)
By Edmond Rostand Freely adapted by Martin Crimp
Full Length Play, Drama, Adaptations (Literature), 17th Century, Contemporary
Cast: 10M, 4F
This "breathtakingly exciting" (Evening Standard) theatrical tour-de-force captures timeless passion through spoken word, contemporary poetry and raw physicality. Cyrano seduces in raps and rhymes, using his linguistic brilliance to help another man win the heart of his one true love, championing - above all - his own unbridled love for words.
A genius with language, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane, but she loves the beautiful but inarticulate Christian. Convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano offers to act as go-between, setting in motion a poignant and often hilarious love triangle in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.
Buy script / more info
I, Joan
Charlie Josephine
Full Length Play, Drama, Docudrama/Historic
"Oh if we can just quiet the world for a moment. And listen within. There's a voice guiding you. I promise it's there. And until you can hear it, I'll be it for you."
The men are all fighting, again. An endless war. From nowhere, an unexpected leader emerges. Young, poor and about to spark a revolution. Rebelling against the world's expectations, questioning the gender binary, Joan finds their power within, and their belief spreads like fire. I, Joan is a powerful and joyous new play which tells Joan of Arc's story anew. It's alive and queer and full of hope.
This title is not currently available for performance.
Buy script / more info
Flies
Charlie Josephine
Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
Cast: 1M, 7F
A disobedient cultural response to a very well-known story: the male gaze.
Award-winning writer Charlie Josephine (I, Joan, The Globe) radically responds to William Golding's classic Lord of the Flies in their new piece Flies - A powerful and contemporary allegory on consent and the fetishisation of the female body.
This new show explodes with tales of girlhood, and the messy joy and sticky shame that come with it. Written from young women's real experiences expect raw honesty, humour, and sweaty dance.
#WhatAreYouLookingAt
This title is not currently available for performance.
Buy script / more info
Birds and Bees
Charlie Josephine
Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
Cast: 4M or F
Leilah is wondering if her Instagram is more of a burden than "living her best life". Billy's queer and proud but ignored by the education system; they're tired of feeling invisible. Aarron is learning how to be a man online, and it's starting to feel toxic. And Maisy, well Maisy's not that into sex, thank you very much. Thrown together, these four confront their differences and realise their power to create change.
Birds and Bees is a new play by critically acclaimed writer Charlie Josephine (I, Joan, Shakespeare's Globe) and a searing exploration of identity, consent, sex positivity, online safety and intersectionality.
This title is not currently available for performance.
Ahlam
Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
Cast: 3M, 3F, 1M or F
This story is about a city. A city of exhaust fumes, drunken phone calls, first kisses, hysteria, sweat and laughter. Cairo.
Coming of age in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, six young Egyptians navigate friendship, loss and secret Grindr dates in the city that made them.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020, You Bury Me is an explosive political debut from Ahlam about a generation emerging from a national trauma, determined to live and love freely.
This title is not currently available for performance.
Buy script / more info
My Brother's Keeper
Mahad Ali
Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
Cast: 5M
Two refugee brothers Aman and Hassan are dispersed to live in a small British seaside town hostile to immigration. In desperate need of business, hotelier Bill Bradley and his son Aidan agree to house them but face animosity from their community for doing so. As Aidan takes Aman under his wing and they draw ever closer, they soon learn the utopia they create for themselves in the hotel is no match for the real world and must confront the hostile climate they live in.
My Brother's Keeper explores the politics of immigration, religion and sexuality as a small British town tries to find its place at a time of great change in the world; a story of love, pain and learning in building community.
This title is not currently available for performance
More recent releases from Concord Theatricals
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