English Theatre Company Script Library
The English Theatre Company has built up a library of playscripts from antiquity to modern times —from Sophocles to The Play That Goes Wrong. All scripts are available for loan to members of the Company. As well as the titles listed below, we have a selection of Play Compendiums.
Author |
Title (copies) |
Albee, Edward |
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? |
Anouilh, Jean |
Poor BitosThe Fighting CockAntigone |
Arden, John |
Left-handed LibertyThe Workhouse Donkey |
Arden, John & Margaretta D’Arcy |
The Hero Rises Up |
Auden, W. H. & Isherwood, C. |
The Ascent of F6On the Frontier |
Ayckbourn, Alan |
ConfusionsThree PlaysAbsurd Person SingularAbsent FriendsBedroom FarceAbsurd Person SingularBedroom FarceSeason’s GreetingsHenceforward |
Beckett, Samuel |
Waiting for Godot |
Bergman, Ingmar |
Four ScreenplaysSmiles of a Summer NightThe Seventh SealWild StrawberriesThe Magician |
Bolt, Robert |
The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew |
Bond, Edward |
The FoolWe Come to the River |
Brecht, Bertolt |
The Threepenny Opera |
Brenton, Howard |
GreenlandChristie in Love & other plays |
Buchan, John |
The Thirty Nine Steps |
Camoletti, Marc |
Boeing, Boeing |
Congreve, William |
The Old BachelorThe Double-DealerLove for LoveThe Way of the WorldThe Mourning Bride |
Cooney, Ray |
Funny MoneyRun For Your Wife |
Coward, Noel |
Play ParadeDesign for LivingCavalcadePrivate LivesBitter SweetPost-MortemThe VortexHay FeverBlithe Spirit |
Dahl, Roald |
The BFG |
Dekker, Thomas |
Old Fortunatus |
Edgar, David |
The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs |
Eliot, T. S |
Collected PlaysMurder in the CathedralThe Family ReunionThe Cocktail PartyThe Confidential ClerkThe Elder StatesmanThe Confidential ClerkThe Cocktail Party |
Euripedes |
Alcestis and other playsTen Plays |
Firth, Tim |
Calendar Girls |
Ford, John |
The Lover’s Melancholy‘Tis Pity She’s a WhoreThe Broken HeartLove’s SacrificePerkin Warbeck (2) |
Frayn, Michael |
DemocracyAlarms & Excursions (6)Donkey’s YearsNoises Off |
Fry, Christopher |
Three PlaysThe FirstbornThor, with AngelsA Sleep of Prisoners |
Gay, John |
The Beggar’s Opera |
Gelber, Jack |
The Connection |
Goethe |
Faust |
Goldsmith, Oliver |
The Poems & Plays of Oliver Goldsmith |
Gray, Simon |
Dog DaysButleyOtherwise Engaged |
Ibsen, Henrik |
Hedda GablerA Doll’s HousePlays: TwoA Doll’s HouseAn Enemy of the PeopleHedda GablerHedda Gabler and Other Plays (2)The Pillars of the CommunityThe Wild DuckHedda GablerThe Pillars of Society |
Ionesco, Eugène |
Penguin PlaysRhinocerosThe ChairsThe LessonThe Bald Prima DonnaLa Cantatrice chauveLa Leçon |
Jarry, Alfred |
The Ubu Plays |
Jay, Antony & Lynn, Jonathan |
Yes, Prime Minister |
Lawrence, Jerome & Lee, Robert E. |
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail |
Lewis, Henry, |
The Play That Goes Wrong |
Sayer Jonathan & Shields, Henry |
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery |
McConnell, Jean |
Deckchairs 1 – Five Short Plays (3)Deckchaies 3 — Three One-Act Plays |
Marriott, Anthony & Foot, Alistair |
No Sex Please — We’re British |
Mercer, David |
The Bankrupt & other plays |
Miller, Arthur |
The Crucible (2)Death of a Salesman ( )2A View from the Bridge (2)All My Sons (2) |
Molière |
Tartuffe & Other PlaysLes Fourberies de Scapin |
Murphy, Tom |
Alice Trilogy |
O’Casey, Sean |
Three Plays (2)Juno and the PaycockThe Shadow of a GunmanThe Plough and the StarsThree More PlaysThe Silver TassiePurple DustRed Roses for Me |
Orton, Joe |
What the Butler Saw |
Osborne, John |
Look Back in Anger |
Perry, Jimmy & Croft, David |
Dad’s Army |
Pinero, Arthur |
Trelawney of the “Wells” |
Pinter, Harold |
Complete WorksThe Caretaker |
Plater, Alan |
Close the Coalhouse Door |
Priestley, J. B. |
When We Are Married |
Rattigan, Terence |
The Winslow BoyThe Browning VersionFrench Without TearsSeparate TablesHarlequinade |
Rudkin, David |
Cries from Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin |
Ryga, George |
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe |
Shaffer, Peter |
The Royal Hunt of the SunBlack Comedy |
Shakespeare, William |
The Merchant of VeniceAntony & CleopatraRomeo & JulietMuch Ado About NothingRichard IIHamlet (4)Richard IIICoriolanusHenry VAs You Like ItA Midsummer Night’s DreamMacbeth |
Shaw, George Bernard |
Plays UnpleasantWidowers’ HousesThe PhilandererMrs Warren’s Profession (4)Saint Joan (2)The Apple CartMajor Barbara (2)Plays Pleasant (2)Arms and The ManCandidaThe Man of DestinyYou Never Can TellPygmalion |
Sheridan, Richard |
School for Scandal |
Sherriff, R. C. |
Journey’s End |
Simon, Neil |
Rumors (3)The Odd Couple (2) |
Sophocles |
The Theban PlaysOedipus the KingOedipus at ColonusAntigone |
Stoppard, Tom |
Enter a Free ManJumpers (2)ArcadiaTravestiesThe Real Inspector Hound (2)Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead |
Strindberg, August |
The FatherA Dream Play |
Synge, J. M. |
The Playboy of the Western WorldRiders to the Sea |
Taylor, C. P. |
And a Nightingale Sang. . . |
Taylor, Edward & Graham, John |
Pardon Me, Prime Minister |
Thomas, Dylan |
Under Milk Wood (2) |
Tsao Yu |
SunriseThunderstorm |
Valentine, Pam |
A Dog’s Life (5) |
Wesker, Arnold |
Volume OneChicken Soup with BarleyRootsI’m Talking About JerusalemRootsPenguin PlaysChicken Soup with BarleyRootsI’m Talking About Jerusalem |
Wilde, Oscar |
The Importance of Being Earnest |