2026 Plays

Eggs is Eggs by Nilgün Yusuf and The Send Off by Annie Power are too powerful monologues spoken by a woman in her sixties.In Eggs is Eggs Jean describes her life with her deceased husband as a pussyfooting nightmare which she is glad to see the back of – while enjoying a boiled egg assisted by a particularly relevant egg timer! In The Send Off Liz is at her own office farewell do and lets rip with a few home truths and a very unexpected final twist. Both monologues are played by Cranks (nominated for Best Solo Performance in the Offwestend awards)

In Squirrelgate by award winning writer Emma Dawson two young women face a domestic crisis together – what to do with a dying squirrel that has somehow turned up in the younger sister’s bed. A sisterly bond eventually works it out.

Sky Horses is an astonishing first play by Teddington based retired TV exec Trish Bertram. A young woman, Mia, is on the edge of the office building roof and a young male colleague is trying to coax her down. But all it not as it seems and the encounter ends in an unexpected but surprisingly uplifting way.

Two Females Failing the Bechdel Test by Andi Courtland is a satirical look at the  famous Bechdel Test which rates plays by the number of women in dialogue that does not mention a man. In this comic take on the test the writer ( a man naturally) gets taken to task by the characters (women naturally) he has actually created.