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Amber Lane Press is a small independent publisher specialising in drama. We are based in the Cotswolds market town of Charlbury between Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon, and have been publishing plays and books on the theatre for over 30 years. We have many well-known modern and established dramatists on our list, including 'Biyi Bandele, Steven Berkoff, Ronald Harwood, Julian Mitchell, Martin Sherman, Hugh Whitemore
and Sir Arnold Wesker.

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email: info@amberlanepress.co.uk
tel: +44 (0)1608 810024
fax: +44 (0)1608 810024
United Kingdom
Church Street

Charlbury, OXFORDSHIRE OX7 3PR
United Kingdom

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In Spring 2007 Elisabetta Minervini and Alessandro Gallenzi, founders of Alma Books, launched Oneworld ClassicsClick for Alma Classics Publishers References listing in partnership with the directors of Oneworld Publications, Juliet Mabey and Novin Doostdar. In September 2007, Oneworld Classics acquired the legendary Calder Publications list (founded 1949), with its vast array of Nobel-Prize winners and controversial authors such as Artaud, Trocchi and Miller. Consequently The Calder Collection was launched, providing a greater range of hitherto unavailable or obscure world classics.

In 2010 Oneworld Classics launched a new imprint, Overture Publishing, a series of beautifully produced opera and classical-music guides which are unique in the English language.

In Spring 2012 Alma Books acquired Oneworld Classics with an aim of breathing new life into this much loved list, revamping and rebranding titles as Alma Classics. Alma Classics will continue the Oneworld Classics mission, publishing not only the greatest recognized masterpieces of all time, from every literature and genre, but trying to redefine and enrich the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance.

email: info@almabooks.com
tel: +44 (0)20 8948 9550
fax: +44 (0)20 8948 5599
United Kingdom
London House
243-253 Lower Mortlake Road
Richmond, SURREY TW9 2LL
United Kingdom

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Chapman - Scotland's Quality Literary Magazine

Scotland's leading literary magazine, Chapman, has a well-deserved international reputation for quality, diversity, and its authoratitive cultural voice. It is often compared to the likes of Granta, The Poetry Review, P N Review, Agenda and easily stands comparison with similar magazines in Ireland and Wales, like The New Welsh Review as well as counterparts throughout Europe and elsewhere.

email: info@chapman-pub.co.uk
tel: +44 (0) 131 557 2207
United Kingdom
4 Broughton Place

Edinburgh, EH1 3RX
United Kingdom

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email: cpsmythe@aol.com
tel: +44 (0) 1753 886000
fax: +44 (0) 1753 886469
United Kingdom
38 Mill Lane

Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire SL9 8BA
United Kingdom

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Cressrelles is one of the largest groups of play publishers in the UK. We offer every type of play, from short pieces, to one-acts, full length plays and pantomimes, for all-women, mixed and youth casts.

  • J. GARNET MILLER (GM) offers adaptations of classics like Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, as well as award-winning festival plays by authors as varied as David Campton, John H. Newmeir, Ros Moruzzi, Joe Graham and Ellie Fossey (our newest author).
      (J. Garnet MillerAdaptations of classics like Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, as well as award-winning festival plays by authors as varied as David Campton, John H. Newmeir, Ros Moruzzi, Joe Graham and Ellie Fossey (our newest author). (J. Garnet Miller was formed from J. B. Pinker and Sons, Steele’s Play Bureau and the play section of Frederick Mueller Books and has an archive of plays stretching back to the 1920s.) was formed from J. B. Pinker and Sons, Steele’s Play Bureau and the play section of Frederick Mueller Books and has an archive of plays stretching back to the 1920s.)
  • KENYON-DEANE (KD) is renowned for its all-women plays, which have been successfully used by Women’s Institute and Townswomen’s Guild drama groups. Our Script-held Series, where the script is carried during the performance, ideal when time is short or your cast doesn’t have the time to learn their lines, is extremely popular, and includes plays by Stella Wyn James, Eileen Brandon and Kay Macauliffe. Kenyon-DeaneRenowned for its all-women plays, which have been successfully used by Women’s Institute and Townswomen’s Guild drama groups. Our Script-held Series, where the script is carried during the performance, ideal when time is short or your cast doesn’t have the time to learn their lines, is extremely popular, and includes plays by Stella Wyn James, Eileen Brandon and Kay Macauliffe. Kenyon-Deane also offers a wide range of plays for mixed casts, such as the popular plays of Sam Bate, Derek Benfield, Peter Blackmore, Stuart Ready and William Dinner. (Kenyon-Deane was formed from H. F. W. Deane and Sons and Kenyon House Press and also has an archive of plays stretching back to the 1920s.) also offers a wide range of plays for mixed casts, such as the popular plays of Sam Bate, Derek Benfield, Peter Blackmore, Stuart Ready and William Dinner.
      (Kenyon-Deane was formed from H. F. W. Deane and Sons and Kenyon House Press and also has an archive of plays stretching back to the 1920s.)
  • NEW PLAYWRIGHTS’ NETWORK (NPN) was set up in the 1970s to promote the best work from new writers. Highly successful plays from the likes of John Waterhouse, Jack Booth, Don Carroll and John Reason are popular at festivals and as staples of amateur productions throughout the year.
  • ANCHORAGE PRESS INC is a leading American publisher of plays for children. Many classic children’s novels have been adapted by Aurand Harris, Madge Miller and Virginia Glasgow Koste: Tom Sawyer, The Doctor In Spite of Himself, The Pinballs, Little Women and the Wizard of Oz. Please follow the link on the catalogues page to Anchorage’s own website where you can view their plays.

 

email: simon@cressrelles.co.uk
tel: (01684) 540154
fax: (01684) 540154
United Kingdom
10 Station Road Industrial Estate

Colwall, Herefordshire WR13 6RN
United Kingdom

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Rapidly growing publishing house specialising in the areas of Education, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Coaching, Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, Counselling, Self Help, Mind Body Spirit and Personal Growth.

 

email: books@crownhouse.co.uk
tel: +44 (0) 1267 211345
fax: +44 (0) 1267 211882
CrownHousePub
United Kingdom
Crown Buildings

Bancyfelin, Carmarthen SA33 5ND
United Kingdom

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Pantomime and comedy play scripts from the pen of

BOB HEATHER.

including those co-written with other authors

email: bobheather@dublar.co.uk
United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Eldridge Publishing, a leading play publisher since 1906, offers hundreds of full-length plays, one-acts, melodramas, holiday and religious plays, children's theatre plays and musicals of all kinds.
email: info@histage.com
tel: 1-850-385-2463
fax: 1-850-385-2463
United States
Eldridge Plays & Musicals
PO Box 14367
Tallahassee, FL 32317
United States

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Faber and FaberClick for Faber and Faber Publishers References listing remains one of the last of the great independent publishing houses in London. With the great depth of its backlist, featuring books by no fewer than twelve Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize-winners, a thriving frontlist and ever-growing e-book list, and new ventures including the print-on-demand Faber Finds imprint, Faber Digital (publisher of the award-winning The Waste Lland for iPad App), Faber Academy (the creative writing school), as well as Faber Factory Powered by Constellation, and Faber Factory Plus

tel: +44 (0)20 7927 3800
fax: +44 (0)20 7927 3801
United Kingdom
Bloomsbury House
74-77 Great Russell Street
London, WC1B 3DA
United Kingdom

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Specialises in stage plays and music.

Works in conjunction with many overseas agents.

No unsolicited MSS; preliminary letter essential.

Founded 1938.


Josef Weinberger founded his publishing business in Vienna in 1885. Through an association with Johann Strauss II, he began licensing performances of Strauss' operettas. Licensing stage works has been a vital part of our work ever since and the principal Viennese operetta composers are represented in our catalogue: Strauss, Millöcker, Zeller, Kálmán, Oscar Straus, Stolz and Fall. We have administered the copyrights of Franz Lehár for many years for Lehár's own company, Glocken Verlag.

We have expanded into several other musical genres over the years: contemporary classical, light orchestral, educational, brass and military band, and religious. Our associated production music library, JW Media Music Ltd, is a leader in its field, while our sister companies in Vienna and Frankfurt have developed repertoire for their own respective markets.

Today, our theatre catalogue spans the century, from Viennese operettas to British musicals of the 1990s. It spans the globe too, through our representation for the UK and other European territories of the prestigious Broadway show catalogues of Music Theatre International and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatre Library. 1998 saw another development, our expansion into the arena of the play with the acquisition of rights in the stage works of the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár.

email: general.info@jwmail.co.uk
tel: 44 + (0)20 7580 2827
fax: 44 + (0)20 7436 9616
United Kingdom
12-14 Mortimer Street

London, W1T 3JJ
United Kingdom

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Founded in 1976 with the express intention of serving the entire Christian community. The company made its name initially as a publisher of hymn books, though the catalogue quickly grew to embrace choral, organ and worship music. In time, a book department was established to provide liturgical resources, material for children’s ministry, theological and devotional books.

Greeting cards, gifts and educational resources are also now offered in addition to a complete catalogue of church supplies that encompasses furniture, clerical wear, candles and much more. The music catalogue embraces all major instruments and the record label produces quality CD recordings of organ, choral and classical music, with many recordings made in our state-of-the-art studio.

 

tel: +44 (0) 845 388 1634
kevinmayhew
United Kingdom
Buxhall

Stowmarket, IP14 3BW
United Kingdom

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Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama publishes over 1000 books on drama and media, including Arden Shakespeare, Student Editions, New Mermaids, Modern Plays and a selection of film and media books. Browse the left hand menu for all our categories.

 

Methuen & Co, Ltd. was founded by Algernon Methuen Marshall Steadman, a teacher and headmaster, in 1889. He believed in books that were helpful and published mostly non-fiction academic works in the early years branching out to encourage female authors and later translated works. Methuen was subsumed into the general publishing division of Associated Book Publishers, part of International Thomson, and the general list later sold to Reed International in December 1987. The academic list stayed with Routledge in ABP. It came into the Random House Group on the purchase of the Reed Consumer list in 1997.

Methuen Drama bought itself out from Random House in 1998 and moved into its own offices on Vauxhall Bridge Road as Methuen Publishing Limited on 4th January 1999. They then acquired the imprint of Politico’s, which specialises in political books, in April 2003. Methuen then moved to Buckingham Gate on 13th June 2005 and have since moved to Artillery Row. Subsequently Methuen Publishing has sold on its drama list to Bloomsbury in May 2006.

The Methuen archive was removed from the Random House Library on 9th December 2009. For questions relating to this collection post-2009 please contact Methuen Publishing.

publishes over 1000 books on drama and media, including Arden Shakespeare, Student Editions, New Mermaids, Modern Plays and a selection of film and media books. Browse the left hand menu for all our categories.

 

Methuen & CoClick for Methuen Publishers References listing, Ltd. was founded by Algernon Methuen Marshall Steadman, a teacher and headmaster, in 1889. He believed in books that were helpful and published mostly non-fiction academic works in the early years branching out to encourage female authors and later translated works. Methuen was subsumed into the general publishing division of Associated Book Publishers, part of International Thomson, and the general list later sold to Reed International in December 1987. The academic list stayed with Routledge in ABP. It came into the Random House Group on the purchase of the Reed Consumer list in 1997.

Methuen Drama bought itself out from Random House in 1998 and moved into its own offices on Vauxhall Bridge Road as Methuen Publishing Limited on 4th January 1999. They then acquired the imprint of Politico’s, which specialises in political books, in April 2003. Methuen then moved to Buckingham Gate on 13th June 2005 and have since moved to Artillery Row. Subsequently Methuen Publishing has sold on its drama list to Bloomsbury in May 2006.

The Methuen archive was removed from the Random House Library on 9th December 2009. For questions relating to this collection post-2009 please contact Methuen Publishing.

email: sales@methuen.co.uk
tel: +44(0)20 7631 5600
fax: +44 (0)20 7631 5800
methuendrama
United Kingdom
50 Bedford Square

London, WC1B 3DP
United Kingdom

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Methuen & CoClick for Methuen Publishers References listing, Ltd. was founded by Algernon Methuen Marshall Steadman, a teacher and headmaster, in 1889. He believed in books that were helpful and published mostly non-fiction academic works in the early years branching out to encourage female authors and later translated works. Methuen was subsumed into the general publishing division of Associated Book Publishers, part of International Thomson, and the general list later sold to Reed International in December 1987. The academic list stayed with Routledge in ABP. It came into the Random House Group on the purchase of the Reed Consumer list in 1997.

Methuen Drama bought itself out from Random House in 1998 and moved into its own offices on Vauxhall Bridge Road as Methuen Publishing Limited on 4th January 1999. They then acquired the imprint of Politico’s, which specialises in political books, in April 2003. Methuen then moved to Buckingham Gate on 13th June 2005 and have since moved to Artillery Row. Subsequently Methuen Publishing has sold on its drama list to Bloomsbury in May 2006.

The Methuen archive was removed from the Random House Library on 9th December 2009. For questions relating to this collection post-2009 please contact Methuen Publishing.

 

Please note that performance rights contacts are usually listed on the imprint/copyright page of a playscript so please consult these pages first (or websites such as www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk) before enquiring about performance rights. Thank you.

email: sales@methuen.co.uk
tel:
+44 (0)20 7802 0018
+44 (0)20 78281244
fax: +44 (0)20 8948 5599
United Kingdom
8 Artillery Row
Westminster
London, SW1P 1RZ
United Kingdom

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New concept in theatre publishing - a publishing company that is owned and managed by writers. The Playwrights’ Co-operative is a not-for-profit organisation whose aims are to cut out the middle-men and profit-makers from the world of theatre publishing and give individual playwrights the opportunity to take greater control and responsibility in the marketing of their work with all the benefits that full publication brings.

On this site you'll find our full catalogue of theatre play scripts plus details of the playwrights and authors. If you're a member of a professional or amateur theatre group or dramatic society you can order acting editions of play scripts and if you decide to stage a production you can arrange performing licenses by email or regular mail.

email: info@plays4theatre.com
tel: 0845 331 3516
fax: 0845 331 3518
United Kingdom
2 Hereford Close
Woolston
Warrington, Cheshire WA1 4HR
United Kingdom

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Oberon Books is the UK's most exciting independent drama publisher specialising in drama and the performing arts. With a backlist of over 1000 books including the latest modern plays and classics from some of the world's leading dramatists, as well as a wide range of handsomely produced publications covering the theatre, opera, dance, biography, performance studies, monologues, practical guides and fiction.

A prolific publisher with a reputation for publishing some of the most challenging, exciting drama happening right now, Oberon is going from strength to strength, bringing exciting plays to grace the stages of the National Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court, the Tricycle, Traverse and Soho Theatres to name but a few, not forgetting Broadway.

email: info@oberonbooks.com
tel: +44 (0)20 7607 3637
fax: +44 (0)20 7607 3629
OberonBooks
United Kingdom
521 Caledonian Road

London, N7 9RH
United Kingdom

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Off The Wall Plays is an online digital play publishing house that opened its doors in 2010. We sell and license play scripts for performance for educational institutions,  community theatre groups, amdram as well as professional theatre. We aim to keep our play prices affordable and we give you the option of reading through a generous selection of the script before you buy it, so you know what you are getting. We are based both in London, UK and in Johannesburg, South Africa.

We have developed a reputation for publishing both traditional plays and also plays that are not necessarily run of the mill.  Our genres include the traditional one acts, dramas, comedies, modern farces as well as those plays that are less run of the mill -  dark comedies, science fiction plays, horrors, thrillers, LGBT plays, South African plays, British and American plays as well as skits and sketches.

Our focus in on new, original plays only.  Looking for an alternative publisher? Have a look at Off The Wall Plays.

email: admin@offthewallplays.com
United Kingdom
14a Priory Road
Crouch End
London, N8 7RD
United Kingdom

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Playmarket

New Zealand Playwrights’ Agent. Advisor. Bookshop.

Our vision is for quality New Zealand plays receiving quality productions.

Our focus is the development, support and representation of New Zealand playwrights. We are a key advocate for the continued growth of New Zealand theatre on our stages and coordinate a range of resources, services and opportunities for playwrights.

 

AGENT

The rights and interests of playwrights represented

The Playmarket Agency, headed by Murray Lynch, issues and manages performance licences, advises on and negotiates commission and collaboration agreements, manages royalty payments, maintains an archive of playwrights’ work and materials related to it and circulates their plays to producers and theatres in NZ and internationally.

 

email: info@playmarket.org.nz
tel: (0064) 4 382 8462
New Zealand
PO Box 9767

Wellington,
New Zealand

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Play Leasing Agents - Play Publishers - Theatre Booksellers

Publishes stage plays for the UK market, mostly acting editions, serves as licensing agent for performance rights, and runs a theatrical bookshop on its premises

email: theatre@samuelfrench-london.co.uk
tel: 020 7387 9373
fax: 020 7387 2161
SamuelFrenchLtd
United Kingdom
52 Fitzroy Street

London, W1T 5JR
United Kingdom

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Publish quality Scottish interest books for children of all ages. 

Since our launch in 1995, Scottish Children’s Press has blossomed – in 1999 we stepped away from our parent to form our own independent company, under new management, and after a few upheavals (moving from Aberdeen to Edinburgh) we have now finally settled into our new home at Newbattle Abbey, just outside Dalkeith, Scotland.

email: info@scottishbooks.com
tel: 0131-660-4757
fax: 0131 660 6366
SamuelFrenchLtd
United Kingdom
Unit 6, Newbattle Abbey Business Park
Newbattle Road
Dalkeith, EH22 3LJ
United Kingdom

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One act plays and full length plays. Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd. publishers of Scottish plays have been publishing plays for nearly 100 years. Throughout this time we have published more than 1000 'one act' and 'full length' plays.

Plays manuscripts are normally received on a fairly regular basis for assessment and these we have read by professional theatrical workers who are either producers, directors or even theatre critics and from their assessment is based our decision whether or not to publish.

email: info@skipper.co.uk
tel: +44 (0) 141 429 1234
fax: +44 (0) 141 420 1694
United Kingdom
4-10 Darnley Street

Glasgow, Scotland G41 2SD
United Kingdom

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Seren is an independent publisher driven by quality writing across a wide-ranging list which includes poetry, fiction, translation, biography, art and history. Many of our books and authors are shortlisted for – and win! – major literary prizes across Britain and America.

Literary publisher specialising mainly in English writing from Wales. Our aim is to publish work of the highest literary and artistic merit, while maintaining a level of profitability which enables us to function effectively as a sustainable and expanding business in a commercial environment.


Seren Books is the trading name of Poetry Wales Press LtdClick for Seren Books Publishers References listing

email: info@serenbooks.com
tel: 01656 663018
serenbooks
United Kingdom
57 Nolton Street

Bridgend, Wales CF31 3AE
United Kingdom

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Founder and editor: Peter Fallon

Established in 1970 to publish poems by new Irish writers, The Gallery Press

Established in 1970 to publish poems by new Irish writers, The Gallery Press has long been recognized as the standard bearer of Irish literary publishing. It has been our privilege to publish more than four hundred titles which show off the finest writing by established and emerging authors. Our titles have won praise and prizes for their content and design. It is our aim where possible to use Irish art on what has become the ‘distinctive look’ of our cover designs.

Based in Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath in the Irish midlands The Gallery Press occupies a unique position in contemporary publishing – it is a ‘small press’ with a national and international reputation.

The founder and editor is Peter Fallon.

has long been recognized as the standard bearer of Irish literary publishing. It has been our privilege to publish more than four hundred titles which show off the finest writing by established and emerging authors. Our titles have won praise and prizes for their content and design. It is our aim where possible to use Irish art on what has become the ‘distinctive look’ of our cover designs.

Based in Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath in the Irish midlands The Gallery Press occupies a unique position in contemporary publishing – it is a ‘small press’ with a national and international reputation.

The founder and editor is Peter Fallon.

email: gallery@indigo.ie
tel: +353 (0)49 8541779
TheGalleryPress
Ireland
Loughcrew

Oldcastle, County Meath
Ireland

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The Lilliput Press was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell in County Westmeath. Jonathan Swift spent his summers in a house nearby, and derived the name Lilliput from a local townland. The office was moved to its present locale in Arbour Hill, north Dublin, in 1989. Some 400 titles have appeared under its imprint; these encompass art and architecture, autobiography and memoir, biography and history, ecology and environmentalism, essays and literary criticism, philosophy, current affairs and popular culture, fiction, drama and poetry, all broadly focused on Irish themes.

email: publicity@lilliputpress.ie
tel: +353 (01) 671 16 47
fax: +353 (01) 671 12 33
lilliputpress
Ireland
62-63 Sitric Road
Arbour Hill
Dublin, 7
Ireland

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email: info@oleanderpress.com
tel: 01638 500784
United Kingdom
16 Orchard Street

Cambridge, CB1 1JT
United Kingdom

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For over forty years Play Bureau NZ Ltd have been privileged to represent a number of the major publishing houses of the world and, in that time, have on their behalf distributed and licensed to customers within New Zealand some of the finest and most successful plays that are available anywhere.

Our mail order Bookstore houses play scripts, musicals and theatre books by authors of international acclaim, together with a selection of works by individual New Zealand and Australian writers. The extensive range of titles on offer covers a wide variety of interest groups from Primary School and College through to Repertory and Musical Theatre level and we are proud of our listings and proud of our reputation for good service.

 

email: play.bureau.nz@xtra.co.nz
tel: (0064) 6 757-3103
fax:
(0064) 6 757-3101
0800 PLAYBUREAU NZFF
New Zealand
Mail Order Theatre Bookstore
PO Box 420
New Plymouth, 4340
New Zealand

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The Playwrights Publishing Company was formed in 1990 and based in Nottingham, UK.

Our aim is to bring together talented new playwrights with amateur and professional theatre groups looking for new scripts to perform.

We receive plays from around the world, choose the best and upload half onto the net.

If you want to buy the second half of any play, you can purchase them on-line or by post and pay for performance royalties when you have decided on dates.

email: playwrightspublishingco@yahoo.com
tel: [44] (0)1159-313356
United Kingdom
70 Nottingham Road
Burton Joyce
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG14 5AL
United Kingdom