Newly Available for Licensing (UK) – March 2025

Spring into your new season with these titles, newly available to license from Concord Theatricals in the UK!

Amani by a.k. payne
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m)
Amani grows up building a rocket ship with her father, who vows to make it to outer space… where his child can breathe easy, where there are no gangs to take his first love’s life, nor prisons to take Black boys’ best years. As Amani moves into adulthood, she seeks her voice and her own dreams.

Hadestown: Teen Edition by Anaïs Mitchell – Now available in the UK for School and Youth Groups.
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 5w, 2m, 1 any gender +ensemble)
This full-length Teen Edition of Anaïs Mitchell’s haunting, jazz-inflected folk opera follows Orpheus’ mythical quest to overcome Hades and regain the favor of his one true love, Eurydice. This intriguing and beautiful folk opera invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.

Island Song (Large Cast Version) by Sam Carner, Derek Gregor and Marlo Hunter
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 9w, 6m)
The energy and passions of New York City explode with a percussive, soaring pop score in this show about twenty- and thirty-somethings navigating city life. As the city spins around them, they get lost, fight back, fall in love, face setbacks, and, most importantly, come alive with the strength that comes with conquering the Big Apple.

Also available for 5 actors in Island Song (Small Cast Version) or 10 actors in Island Song (Medium Cast Version).

Labour of Love by James Graham
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 3m)
James Graham’s Olivier-winning comedy, charting 25 years of political and romantic turbulence, delves into the history of the UK’s Labour party. Unfolding over decades, across multiple election nights, through economic booms and busts, this wickedly funny clash of values and class reflects a shifting political landscape that will resonate for anyone asking, “Whither the Democrats?”

Nan and the Lower Body by Jessica Dickey
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 2m)
When Pap smear inventor Dr. George Papanicolaou takes on a brilliant new assistant, Nan Day, he senses that she is hiding a secret. As Dr. Pap discovers the truth, he learns that he may hold the key to solving her greatest mystery. This frank and funny play explores the mysteries of the heart and provides a personal perspective on the revolutionary technology that has saved the lives of millions but caused moral dilemmas along the way.

Our Play by Jessica Moss
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6w, 5m, 3 gnc adult)
Our Play captures the lives of high school students as they mount a production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, mirroring the classic’s style and structure in three acts: rehearsal, opening night and the tragic school shooting that follows. A beautiful inspection of high school adolescence, community in a high school theatre, and the hopes and fears of growing into a life.

Possession by Sasha Hails
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m)
Four mother’s lives interweave across continents and time. A pregnant mother arrives in the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo and births her daughter Hope on the bus near Victoria. A grown Hope crosses paths with a foreign correspondent with a particular interest in the latest mineral tormenting the DRC: cobalt. A Victorian missionary in King Leopold’s Congo fears history is repeating itself. Possession is a tale about desire, ownership, colonization, and, ultimately, the power of the spirit to escape oppression.

The Ally by Itamar Moses
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 4m)
When a university professor is asked to sign a social justice manifesto, he expects to be able to do so without hesitation. Instead, he becomes embroiled in an increasingly conflicted web of relationships that challenge his commitments as a liberal, a husband, an academic, an American, an atheist and a Jew. With tensions at an all-time high, Asaf is forced to confront the age-old question: “If I am only for myself, what am I?”

The Boomer Boys by Billy Van Zandt, Jane Milmore and Wayland Pickard
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4m)
A fun-loving “fat pack” of middle-aged men who realize the best way to deal with getting older is to laugh about it with your friends. They navigate everything from the depths of expanding waistlines to the heights of Viagra in this hilarious evening of songs. Whether you relate to snoring, hair loss, weight gain, or lost car keys, this mid-life quartet will sure bring you a laugh!

The Full Monty by Simon Beaufoy
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 11m, 1 boy)
In 1997, a BAFTA award-winning British film about six out-of-work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. And now they’re back, live on stage… only for them, it really has to be The Full Monty. Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning writer of the film, has gone back to Sheffield where it all started to rediscover the men, the women, the heartache and the hilarity of a city on the dole.

The Game by Bekah Brunstetter
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w, 1m)
Every relationship hits a glitch. Alyssa and Homer are feeling disconnected in their marriage – and it’s all due to the massively engrossing online game that’s wreaking havoc on the lives of couples everywhere. When she puts together a support group for other women in a similar situation, the game enters a new level. All’s fair in love and war in this hilarious and heartfelt contemporary twist on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.

The Visitor by Kwame Kwei-Armah, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 12m)
An unforgettable new musical about friends and lovers caught between two worlds. When widowed college professor whose life has lost a sense of purpose meets a vivacious drummer and an iron-willed jewelry maker, the three are swept up into their struggle to stay in America. With heart, humor and lush new songs, Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning team Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey and Kwame Kwei-Armah have created a soul-stirring new musical based on the acclaimed independent film by Thomas McCarthy.

Underdog: The Other Other Brontë by Sarah Gordon
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w)
Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one… Anne. An irreverent retelling of the life and legend of the Brontë sisters, and the story of the sibling power dynamics that shaped their uneven rise to fame.

You Bury Me by Ahlam
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 3m, 1 any gender adult)
This story is about 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.

Wet Brain by John J. Caswell, Jr.
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 2w, 3m)
Deep in the suburbs of Arizona, three train-wreck siblings are charged with the care of their train-wreck father, who may or may not live a secret alien life. John J. Caswell, Jr.’s brutally funny new play pierces one family’s emotional void as they search the cosmos to find a common language.

For more new titles, visit Concord Theatricals in the UK.