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1990
Dominic Dromgoole appointed artistic director
of the Bush theatre in west London.
31
August
Chris Hannan's The Evil Doers first staged at the Bush theatre.
1 November
Richard Cameron's Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
first performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
22 November
Martin Crimp's No One Sees the Video first performed
at the Royal Court theatre.
1991
2 January
Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork
Disney first performed at the Bush theatre. Shocks audiences with
its scenes of vomiting, cockroach-eating and vivid verbal images.
6 March
Martin Crimp's Getting Attention, directed by
Jude Kelly, first performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
7 August
Anthony Neilson's Normal first performed at the
Pleasance theatre, Edinburgh.
13 November
Billy Roche's Belfry first performed at the Bush theatre,
London. Culmination of his Wexford trilogy, which was staged as a whole
the following year, beginning a craze for Irish writing.
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1992
Stephen Daldry appointed artistic director of
the Royal Court theatre in Sloane Square, London.
23 April
Sebastian Barry's White Woman Street first
performed at the Bush theatre, London.
24 April
Jordan by Anna Reynolds and Moira Buffini first
performed at the Lilian Baylis theatre, London.
14 May
Philip Ridley's The Fastest Clock in the Universe
first performed at the Hampstead theatre, London. Audiences more shocked
by its cruelty to animals than by its suggestion of paedophilia.
27 October
Phyllis Nagy's Weldon Rising first performed at
the Liverpool Playhouse studio. Offends some people with its explicit
images of lesbian sex.
28 November
Brad Fraser's Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love first
performed at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh.
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1993
7 January
Karen Hope's Foreign Lands first performed at the Finborough
theatre, London.
February
Naomi Wallace's The War Boys first performed at
the Finborough theatre.
15 April
Martin Crimp's The Treatment first performed at
the Royal Court theatre, London.
15 April
Diane Samuels's Kindertransport first performed at the Soho
Theatre Company's Cockpit theatre, London.
19 April
Judith Thompson's Lion in the Streets first performed at the Hampstead
theatre.
May
Mark Ravenhill's Close to You, Joe Penhall's Wild Turkey, Naomi Wallace's
In the Fields of Aceldema and Wendy Hammond's Jersey City are highlights
of the London New Play Festival at the Old Red
Lion theatre.
13 May
Jonathan Lewis's Our Boys first performed at the Cockpit
theatre, London.
28 July
Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful
Thing first performed at the Bush theatre. Signals a new confidence
in gay writing.
12 August
Anthony Neilson's Penetrator first performed
at the Traverse theatre. Features a 'uniquely shattering' knife sequence.
7 October
Jimmy Murphy's Brothers of the Brush first performed at the Abbey theatre,
Dublin.
10 November 1993
Fiona Padfield's Strip first performed at the Lyric Studio, Hammersmith.
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1994
12 January
Anthony Neilson's Penetrator transfers to the
Royal Court theatre, London. Its scenes of violence and explicit language
prompt calls for self-censorship.
31 March
Kevin Elyot's My Night with Reg first performed at the Royal Court.
7 April
Philip Ridley's Ghost from a Perfect Place first
performed at the Hampstead theatre, London. Provokes a public debate about
its 'quasi-pornographic' stage images.
7 April
Phyllis Nagy's Butterfly Kiss first performed
at the Almeida theatre, London. Its fragmented structure puzzles some
people.
4 May
Harry Gibson's adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting
first performed at the Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow.
16 July
Brad Fraser's Poor Super Man first performed at the Traverse theatre,
Edinburgh.
11 August
Tracy Letts's Killer Joe first performed at the
Traverse theatre, where it wins a Fringe First award.
26 September
Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing transfers to
the Duke of York's theatre, sparking accusations about a 'plague of pink
plays' in the West End.
15 September
Joe Penhall's Some Voices first performed at the
Royal Court theatre, kicking off Stephen Daldry's
first season of funky new writing.
13 October
Michael Wynne's The Knocky first performed
at the Royal Court.
21 October
David Greig's Europe first performed at the Traverse
theatre.
10 November
Nick Grosso's Peaches first performed at the Royal
Court theatre.
15 November
Kevin Elyot's My Night with Reg transfers to the Criterion theatre, London.
18 November
Rebecca Prichard's Essex Girls first performed
at the Royal Court theatre.
1 December
Judy Upton's Ashes and Sand first performed at
the Royal Court theatre. Its images of a violent girl gang cause no controversy.
December
Erotic short pieces by Mark Ravenhill and
Anthony Neilson feature in the I'll Show You Mine
season at the Finborough theatre.
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1995
18 January
Press night of Sarah Kane's Blasted
at the Royal Court theatre, London. Gets some of the worst reviews of
the decade - swiftly followed by a hysterical media outcry, press attacks
on the author and calls to cut the subsidy of the theatre. The most hotly
debated play of the 1990s.
20 January
Tracy Letts's Killer Joe transfers to the Bush
theatre. Widespread media praise.
9 February
Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice first performed
at the National Theatre. Its success suggests a public taste for boys'
plays.
23 February
Phyllis Nagy's The Strip first performed at the
Royal Court theatre.
30 March
Sebastian Barry's The Steward of Christendom first
performed at the Royal Court. Signals a renewed confidence in Irish writing.
2 June
David Harrower's Knives in Hens first performed
at the Traverse theatre.
14 July
Jez Butterworth's Mojo first performed at the
Royal Court. A quintessential boys' play, it is hyped as the first mainstage
debut since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger in 1956.
11 August
Harry Gibson's revised adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting
first performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
24 August
Simon Block's Not a Game for Boys first performed
at the Royal Court theatre.
5 September
Louis Mellis and David Scinto's Gangster No 1 first performed at the Almeida
theatre.
16 November
Judy Upton's Bruises first performed at the Royal
Court theatre.
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1996
5 January
Simon Bent's Goldhawk Road first performed at the Bush theatre, beginning
a short season called London Fragments.
17 January
Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City first performed
at the Barbican centre, London.
25 January 1996
Nick Grosso's Sweetheart first performed at the
Royal Court theatre.
1 February
Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane
first performed at the Town Hall theatre, Galway.
14 February
David Eldridge's Serving It Up first performed
at the Bush theatre, London.
23 February
David Greig's The Architect first performed
at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh.
29 February
Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane
transfers to the Royal Court theatre.
2 April
Samuel Adamson's Clocks and Whistles first performed
at the Bush theatre, prompting praise for its subtle picture of sexual
and emotional confusion.
11 July
Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water first
performed at the Hampstead theatre.
9 May
Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan first performed
at the Royal Court theatre.
15 May
Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love first performed at
the Gate theatre, London.
27 May
Daragh Carville's Language Roulette first performed at the Old Museum
Arts Centre, Belfast.
September
Anthony Neilson's Hoover Bag and Laura Bridgeman,
Tim Blackwell and Tom Minter's Gay Marriage in Suburbia are highlights
of the London New Play Festival at the Young Vic
theatre.
September
Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs first performed at the
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
26 September
Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking first
performed at the Royal Court theatre. The play becomes a symbol of cutting-edge
drama.
8 October
Ayub Khan-Din's East Is East first performed at
Birmingham Rep studio.
10 October
Jez Butterworth's Mojo revived at the Royal Court
theatre.
November
Jim Cartwright's I Licked a Slag's Deodorant first
performed at the Royal Court theatre.
19 November
Ayub Khan-Din's East Is East transfers to the
Royal Court theatre.
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1997
7 March
Martin Crimp's Attempts on Her Life first performed
at the Royal Court theatre, London.
1 April
Anthony Neilson's The Censor first performed at
the Finborough theatre.
2 April
Ben Elton's Popcorn transfers to the Apollo theatre
after opening at the Nottingham Playhouse in September 1996.
3 April
Alex Jones's Noise first performed at the Soho
Theatre.
11-13 April
The Eighth Birmingham Theatre Conference, called 'About
Now' and led by David Edgar, stages a
passionate debate about new writing.
30 April
Joe Penhall's Love and Understanding first performed
at the Bush theatre, London.
22 May
Patrick Marber's Closer first performed at the
National Theatre.
4 June
Anthony Neilson's The Censor transfers to the
Royal Court theatre.
24 June
Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking transfers
to the Gielgud theatre, London.
4 July
Conor McPherson's The Weir first performed at
the Royal Court theatre.
17 July
Martin McDonagh's Leenane Trilogy opens at
the Royal Court theatre.
7 August
Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs opens at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh.
1 September
Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking visits
the West Yorkshire Playhouse on tour. It's the day after the death of
Diana, Princess of Wales, and Ravenhill changes the order of the dirty
royals stories so that Fergie's story precedes Diana's.
1 October
Parv Bancil's Crazyhorse first performed at the Bristol Old Vic studio.
23 October
Sarah Kane directs Buchner's Woyzeck at the Gate
theatre, west London.
24 October
Rebecca Prichard's Fair Game first performed at
the Royal Court theatre. Sparks a storm about using teenage actors for
in-yer-face drama.
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1998
8 January
Phyllis Nagy's Never Land first performed
at the Royal Court, London.
30 January
Claire Dowie's Easy Access (for the Boys)
first performed at the Drill Hall, London.
19 February
Irvine Welsh's You'll Have Had Your Hole first
performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Its poor reception suggests
that the trend for in-yer-face plays is beginning to abate.
11 March
Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn, Abi Morgan and Mark
Ravenhill's Sleeping Around first performed at Salisbury Playhouse.
26 March
Sebastian Barry's Our Lady of Sligo first
performed by Out of Joint at the Oxford Playhouse, Oxford.
2 April
Che Walker's Been So Long first performed at the
Royal Court theatre.
30 April
Sarah Kane's Cleansed first performed at the Royal
Court theatre.
1 May
Bryony Lavery's Frozen first performed at the Birmingham Rep, Birmingham.
Revised version revived at the National Theatre in June 2002.
7 May
Rebecca Prichard's Yard Gal first performed
at the Royal Court theatre.
21 May
As part of the London New Play Festival, Mark
Ravenhill and David Hare debate the success of new writing in the commercial
theatre.
12 July
David Harrower's Kill the Old Torture Their
Young first performed at the Traverse, Edinburgh.
13 August
Sarah Kane's Crave first performed at the Traverse.
14 September
Mark Ravenhill's Handbag first performed at the
Lyric, Hammersmith studio.
30 September
Kaite O'Reilly's Yard first performed at the Bush theatre.
4 October
Nick Grosso's Real Classy Affair first performed
at the Royal Court theatre.
14 October
Lee Hall's Cooking with Elvis first performed
at Live theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
3 November
Peter Rose's Snatch and Nicholas McInerny's Belle Fontaine open the Soho
Theatre Company's Five Plays: Four Weeks season at the Pleasance theatre,
London.
17 November
Adrian Pagan's The Backroom first performed at the Pleasance theatre,
London.
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1999
13 January
Charlotte Jones's In Flame first performed at
the Bush theatre, London.
10 February
Mark O'Rowe's Howie the Rookie first performed
at the Bush theatre.
12 February
Richard Bean's Toast first performed at the Royal
Court theatre, London.
19 February
Roy Williams's Lift Off first performed at
the Royal Court.
20 February
Sarah Kane commits suicide.
26 February
Sarah Woods's Trips first performed at The
Door, Birmingham Rep.
11 March
Gary Mitchell's Trust first performed at the Royal
Court theatre.
24 March
Mike Packer's The Card Boys first performed at the Bush theatre.
15 April
Charlotte Jones's Martha, Josie and the Chinese
Elvis first performed at the Bolton Octagon.
5 May
Richard Zajdlic's Dogs Barking first performed
at the Bush theatre.
8 July
Ayub Khan-Din's Last Dance at Dum Dum first
performed at the New Ambassadors theatre, London.
14 July
Adrian Pagan's The Backroom transfers to the Bush theatre.
4 August
Simon Bennett's Drummers begins its storming tour
at the Cambridge Arts theatre.
10 August
Linda McLean's Riddance, produced by Paines Plough,
first performed at the Traverse theatre.
10 September
Suspect Culture's Mainstream, written by David Greig,
visits the Bush theatre in west London.
24 September
Chris Lee's The Map Maker's Sorrow first performed at the Abbey Theatre,
Dublin.
30 September
Mark Ravenhill's Some Explicit Polaroids
begins its tour at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.
14 October
Moira Buffini's Silence first performed at the
Door, Birmingham Rep.
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2000
11 February
Simon Block's A Place at the Table first performed
at the Bush theatre, London.
17 February
Refurbished Royal Court theatre reopens with Conor
McPherson's Dublin Carol.
21 February 2000
Kia Corthron's Breath, Boom first performed at the Royal Court theatre.
14 March
The new Soho theatre in Dean Street, London, opens
with Jonathan Lichtenstein's Station.
17 March
Christopher Shinn's Other People first performed at the Royal Court, London.
April
Toby Whithouse's Jump Mr Malinoff, Jump first performed at the Soho theatre,
London.
6 April
Gary Mitchell's The Force of Change first performed
at the Royal Court.
7 April
Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange first performed at
the National Theatre.
17 April
David Greig's Victoria first performed at
the Barbican, London.
26 April
Helen Blakeman's Normal first performed at the
Bush theatre, London.
11 May
Martin Crimp's The Country first performed
at the Royal Court.
23 June
Sarah Kane's last play, 4.48
Psychosis, first performed at the Royal Court theatre, London.
29 June
Marina Carr's On Raftery's Hill transfers
to the Royal Court.
4 August
Kay Adshead's The Bogus Woman first performed at the Traverse theatre,
Edinburgh.
6 August
Zinnie Harris's Further Than the Furthest Thing
first performed at the Traverse theatre. Transfers
to the National Theatre.
6 September
Philip Ridley's Vincent River first performed
at the Hampstead theatre.
11 September
John Corwin's Navy Pier first performed at the Soho
theatre.
14 September
Nick Whitby's To the Green Fields Beyond first performed at the trendy
Donmar Warehouse, London.
14 September
David Eldridge's Under the Blue Sky first performed
at the Royal Court, London.
13 October
Henry Adam's Among Unbroken Hearts first performed at the Traverse
theatre, Edinburgh.
19 October
A State Affair, written by Robin Soans and produced by Out
of Joint, first performed at the Liverpool Everyman in a double bill
with Andrea Dunbar's classic Rita, Sue and Bob Too. Ash Kotak's Hijra
first performed at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Transfers to the Bush
theatre, London.
November
David Greig's The Architect belatedly given its
English premiere at the studio theatre of Royal Holloway's Drama Department,
directed by Dan Rebellato.
24 November
Caryl Churchill's Far Away, directed by Stephen
Daldry, first performed at the Royal Court.
29 November
Shelagh Stephenson's Ancient Lights first performed
at the Hampstead theatre, London.
5 December
Out of Joint's Rita, Sue and Bob Too/A State Affair double bill transfers
to the Soho theatre.
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2001
5
January
Rebecca Gilman's Spinning into Butter first
performed at the Royal Court theatre, London.
18 January
Eugene O'Brien's Eden first performed at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin.
Later transfers to London's West End.
1 February
Kevin Elyot's Mouth to Mouth opens at the Royal Court, later transferring
to the West End.
8 February
Gary Owen's Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco first performed at the Chapter
Arts Centre, Cardiff. It tours to the Lyric, Hammersmith, in March.
15 February
David Greig's Casanova first performed at
the Tron theatre, Glasgow.
20 February
Naomi Wallace's The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek
first performed at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh.
22 February
Conor McPherson's Port Authority first performed
at the New Ambassadors theatre, London, later transferring to the Gate
theatre, Dublin.
28 February
Moira Buffini's Loveplay first performed at
the Barbican Pit, London.
7 March
Catherine Tregenna's Art and Guff first performed at the Soho theatre,
London.
9 March
Jonathan Hall's Flamingoes first performed at the Bush theatre, London.
15 March
Jonathan Harvey's Out in the Open first
performed at the Hampstead theatre, London.
19 March
Jimmy Murphy's The Kings of Kilburn High Road performed at the Tricycle
theatre, London.
29 March-9 June
Sarah Kane season at the Royal
Court. New production of Blasted on the
main stage, revivals of Crave and 4.48 Psychosis,
plus readings of Phaedra's Love and Cleansed.
5 April
Christopher Shinn's The Coming World first performed at the Soho
theatre, London.
11 April
Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore
first performed by the RSC at the Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon.
19 April
David Harrower's Presence first performed at the
Royal Court, London.
18 May
Simon Stephens's Herons first performed at
the Royal Court, London.
24 May
Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things first performed at the Almeida
theatre, London, with Paul Rudd and Rachel Weiss.
1 June
Patrick Marber's Howard Katz first performed at
the National Theatre.
15 June
Roy Williams's Clubland first performed at
the Royal Court theatre, London.
12
July
Gregory Burke's Gagarin Way first performed
at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh. Later transfers to the National Theatre
and West End.
3 August
Abi Morgan's Tiny Dynamite first performed by
Frantic Assemby at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh. Then tours around
Britain.
9 August
Charlotte Jones's Humble Boy first performed at
the National Theatre.
13 August
Shan Khan's award-winning Office first perfomed at the Edinburgh Festival.
Then transfers to the Soho Theatre, London.
14 August
Morna Regan's Midden first performed by Rough Magic at the Traverse
Theatre, Edinburgh.
30 August
Judy Upton's storming Sliding with Suzanne was
staged by the Royal Court, directed by Max Stafford-Clark.
4 September
Mark Ravenhill's Mother Clap's Molly House,
a play with songs, first performed on the National Theatre's large Lyttelton
stage.
6 September
Abi Morgan's Tender first performed at the Hampstead
Theatre, London. On 11 September, a minute's silence for victims of the
9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Leo
Butler's Redundant first performed at the Royal
Court theatre. (The play mentions Osama Bin Laden, a reference which
was cut on the press night on 12 September.)
28 September
Zinnie Harris's Nightingale and Chase first performed
at the Royal Court.
10 October
David Farr's The Danny Crowe Show first performed
at the Bush theatre.
11 October
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's enormously successful Behsharam
(Shameless) first performed at the Soho Theatre,
London. Then transfers to the Birmingham Rep.
1 November
Rebecca Gilman's Boy Meets Girl first performed
at the Royal Court. (Last stage performance by Katrin Cartlidge, who died
in 2002.)
8 November
Grae Cleugh's Fucking Games first performed at the Royal Court, London.
2002
9
January
Peter Morris's The Age of Consent transfers to the Bush
theatre, London.
10 January
Enda Walsh's Bedbound transfers to the Royal
Court, London .
8 February
Mark Ravenhill's Mother Clap's Molly House
transfers to the Aldwych theatre in the West End.
14 February
Kaite O'Reilly's Peeling (a Graeae production) fisrt performed at The
Door, Birmingham Rep. Simon Block's Hand
in Hand first performed at the Hampstead Theatre, London.
20 February
Richard Cameron's The Glee Club first performed
at the Bush theatre.
26 February
Peter Straughan's Bones first performed at Live Theatre, Newcastle.
8 March
Douglas Maxwell's Helmet first performed at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh.
11 March
Stephen Adly Gurgis's Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train transfers to the
Donmar Warehouse, London, marking the start of a season which renews American
influence on British new writing.
12 March
Martin Crimp's Face to the Wall first performed
at the Royal Court.
3 April
Naomi Wallace's The Inland Sea first performed
at Wilton's Music Hall, London.
11 April
Jez Butterworth's The Night Heron first performed
at the Royal Court.
18 April
Nick Grosso's Kosher Harry first performed
at the Royal Court. David Farr's Night of the
Soul first performed by the RSC at the Barbican Pit, London. Charlotte
Eilenberg's award-winning The Lucky Ones first performed at the Hampstead
theatre, London.
2 May
Roy Williams's Sing Yer Heart Out for the
Lads opens the National Theatre's 100-seat Loft space, a temporary studio
space at the heart of British theare.
15 May
Mike Packer's A Carpet, A Pony and a Monkey first performed at the
Bush theatre, London.
17 May
Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live first performed at the Royal
Court.
23 May
Simon Bowen's Free first performed at the National Theatre Loft.
7 June
Michael Wynne's The People Are Friendly first
performed at the Royal Court.
10 June
Tim Fountain's Julie Burchill Is Away first performed at the Soho
Theatre, London.
17 June
Gary Owen's The Shadow of a Boy first performed at the National Theatre
Loft.
20 June
Helen Edmundson's Mother Teresa Is Dead first performed at the Royal
Court.
8 July
Richard Bean's The Mentalists first performed
at the National Theatre Loft.
12
July
David Greig's Outlying Islands first performed
at the Traverse, Edinburgh. Later transfers to the Royal Court.
18 July
Kerry Hood's Meeting Myself Coming Back first performed at the Soho
theatre.
26 July
Rona Munro's Iron first performed at the Traverse, Edinburgh.
29 July
Tanika Gupta's Sanctuary first performed at the
National Theatre Loft.
1 August
Anthony Neilson's Stitching first performed
at the Traverse, Edinburgh. Gary Owen's The Drowned World first performed
at the same venue.
19 August
Simon Bent's The Associate first performed at the National Theatre
Loft.
9 September
Owen McCafferty's Closing Time first performed at the National Theatre
Loft.
20 September
Peepshow by Isabel Wright for Frantic Assembly first performed at
the Drum Theatre, Plymouth.
23 September
Caryl Churchill's A Number, directed by Stephen Daldry,
first performed at the Royal Court. Sarah Phelps's Modern Dance for Beginners
first performed at the Soho Theatre.
23 October
Georgia Fitch's sizzling Adrenalin... Heart first performed at the Bush
theatre.
24 October
Shelagh Stephenson's Mappa Mundi first performed
at the National Theatre.
12 November
Port by Simon Stephens first performed at
the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
14 November
Falling by Shelley Silas first performed at the Bush theatre.
18 November
Moira Buffini's Dinner
first performed at the National Theatre's Loft.
23 November
Anthony Neilson's The Lying Kind first performed
at the Royal Court.
29 November
Crazyblackmuthafuckin'self by DeObia Oparei first performed at the Royal
Court.
3 December
Untouchable by Simon Burt first performed at the Bush Theatre.
2003
22 January
Rona Munro's Iron transfers to the Royal Court from the Traverse, and
Edward Albee's The Goat opens at the Almeida Theatre.
31 January
Vassily
Sigarev's Black Milk first performed at the Royal Court.
19
February
Doug Lucie's
The
Green Man transfers to the Bush Theatre.
10 March
Terrorism by the Presnyakov Brothers first performed at the Royal
Court.
April
Dennis Kelly's Debris first performed at the
Latchmere Theatre.
15 May
Flesh Wound by Che Walker first performed
at the Royal Court.
21 May
Catherine Johnson's Little Baby Nothing first performed at the Bush
theatre.
28 May
US and Them by Tamsin Oglesby first performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
May
Steve Waters's World Music first performed at Sheffield Theatres.
4 June
Philip Ralph's Mr Nobody first performed at the Soho Theatre.
19 June
Mick Maloney's Food Chain first performed at the Royal Court.
3 July
Protection by Fin Kennedy first performed at the Soho Theatre.
11
July
Henry Adam's The People Next Door first performed at the Traverse,
Edinburgh.
25 July
David Harrower's Dark Earth first performed
at the Traverse.
31 July
Heather Raffo's Nine Parts of Desire performed at the Traverse.
July
David Greig's San Diego first staged at the Tron
Theatre, Glasgow.
1 August
Gregory Burke's The Straits first performed at
the Traverse, Edinburgh, and Stephen Belber's Tape first staged at the
Soho Theatre.
6 August
Top Dog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks first performed at the Royal
Court.
12 August
Playing the Victim by the Presnyakov Brothers first performed at the
Royal Court.
4 September
Kay Adshead's
Animal first performed at the Soho Theatre.
25 September
Clare McIntyre's The Maths Tutor first performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
2 October
Wrong Place by Mark Norfolk first performed at the Soho theatre.
8 October
Airsick by Emma Frost first performed at the Bush.
16 October
Lucy Prebble's The Sugar Syndrome first performed at the Royal Court.
5 November
Gary Mitchell's Loyal Women first performed
at the Royal Court.
13 November
Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman first performed
at the National Theatre, and David Hare's The Permanent Way first
performed at the Theatre Royal, York. Transfers to the National in January
2004.
10 December
Stephen Lowe's Revelations first performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
11 December
Joanna Laurens's Five Gold Rings first performed at the Almeida Theatre.
2004
7
January
Christmas by Simon Stephens first performed
at the Bush Theatre.
8 January
Honeymoon Suite by Richard Bean first performed
at the Royal Court.
4 February
Simon Stephens's One Minute first staged at
the Bush.
11 February
Ayub Khan-Din's Notes on Falling Leaves first
performed at the Royal Court.
12 February
Glyn Cannon's On Blindness first performed at the Soho
Theatre, in a daring collaboration between Frantic Assembly, Graeae
and Paines Plough.
13 February
Gerald Murphy's Take Me Away first performed at the Project Arts Centre,
Dublin. Goes to Edinburgh in 2005.
3 March
Michael Hastings's Calico first performed at the Duke of York's Theatre.
5 March
Ladybird by Vassily Sigarev first performed at the Royal Court.
11 March
Georgia Fitch's superb Adrenalin... Heart revived at the Bush
Theatre.
18 March
Charlotte Jones's The Dark first performed at
the Donmar Warehouse, David Eldridge's version
of Festen first staged at the Almeida and Badnuff by Richard Davidson
first performed at the Soho Theatre.
25 March
Rebecca Gilman's The Sweetest Swing in Baseball
first put on at the Royal Court.
30 March
Debris by Dennis Kelly revived at the BAC.
15 April
Blest Be the Tie by the late Dona Daley first performed at the Royal
Court.
20 April
David Dipper's Flush first performed at the Soho Theatre.
21 April
David Eldridge's MAD first staged at the Bush.
12 May
Sebastian Barry's Whistling Psyche first performed
at the Almeida.
14 May
Lucky Dog by Leo Butler first staged at the
Royal Court. Martin Crimp's Cruel and Tender first
performed at the Young Vic.
18 May
Alan Bennett's The History Boys first put on at the National.
19 May
Alex
Jones's Mr and Mrs Shultz first performed at the Warehouse, Croydon.
28 May
Three Women and a Piano Tuner by Helen Cooper first performed at Chichester.
2 June
Damages by Steve Thompson first performed at the Bush.
3 June
Three Women and a Piano Tuner by Helen Cooper first performed at the Minerva
Theatre, Chichester.
4
June
Conor McPherson's Shining City first performed
at the Royal Court.
24
June
Simon Stephens's Country Music first performed
at the Royal Court.
8 July
Mercy by Lin Coghlan first put on at the Soho.
9 July
Philip Ridley's Moonfleece first performed at
the National.
23 July
Rebecca Lenkiewicz's The Night Season first performed at the National.
8 August
Nick Grosso's Killing Paul McCartney first performed
at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh.
12 August
Jonathan Harvey's Taking Charlie first performed
at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh.
30 August
Two Step by Rhashan Stone first put on at the Almeida.
1 September
Anthony Neilson's The Wonderful World of Dissocia
is first performed at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh.
2 September
Joe Penhall's Dumb Show first performed at the
Royal Court.
9 September
John Donnelly's Bone first performed at the Royal Court.
16 September
Sarah Woods's Soap first performed at the Stephen
Joseph Theatre, Scraborough.
29 September
Chloe Moss's How Love Is Spelt first performed
at the Bush.
1 October
The Weather by Clare Pollard first performed at the Royal Court. The play
features an on-stage poltergeist.
5 October
Bear Hug by Robin French first performed at the Royal Court. The play
features a boy who's turned into a bear.
7 October
Zinnie Harris's Midwinter first performed at the
RSC, Stratford.
14 October
Head/Case by Ron Hutchinson first staged at the RSC, Startford, in a coproduction
with the Belgrade, Coventry.
15 October
Cosh Omar's The Battle of Green Lanes first performed at the Theatre Royal
Stratford East.
5 November
Richard Cameron's Gong Donkeys first performed
at the Bush. And Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's Fresh Kills at the Court.
26 November
Rob Evans's A Girl in a Car with a Man first performed at the Royal Court.
9 December
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's Behzti (Dishonour) first
performed at the Birmingham Rep - show is stopped after protests by militant
Sihks.
16 December
Kwame Kwei-Armah's Fix Up first performed at the
National Theatre.
2005
12 January
Kay Adshead's Bites first performed at the Bush
Theatre.
27 January
April de Angelis's Wild East first performed at the Royal
Court.
28 January
Enda Walsh's The Small Things first performed
at the Menier Chocolate Factory as part of Paines
Plough's This Other England season.
3 February
Laura Wade's Colder Than Here first performed
at the Soho Theatre.
8 February
Take Me Away by Gerald Murphy transfers to the Bush Theatre.
10 February
Philip Ridley's Mercury Fur first performed
at the Drum, Plymouth.
19 February
Sharman Macdonald's The Girl with the Red Hair first put on at the
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.
24 February
Laura Wade's Breathing Corpses first performed
at the Royal Court.
9 March
David Greig's Pyrenees first performed at
the Tron Theatre, Glasgow.
1 April
Debbie Tucker Green's Stoning Mary first put on at the Royal Court.
7 April
My Name Is Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner,
first staged by the Royal Court.
8 April
Mammals by Amelia Bullmore first performed at the Bush. A Night at
the Dogs by Matt Charman (Verity Bargate winner, 2004) first performed
at the Soho Theatre.
9 April
Douglas Maxwell's If Destroyed True first performed at the Dundee
Rep.
13 April
Simon Stephens's On the Shore of the Wide
World first put on at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
21 April
Robin Soan's Talking to Terrorists begins its national tour, in an Out
of Joint production, at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.
It reaches London in July, when terrorists bomb the Underground.
27 April
David Greig's The American Pilot first performed
by the RSC. Later transfers to the Soho Theatre.
5 May
Dennis Kelly's Osama the Hero first put on
at the Hampstead Theatre.
7 May
David Eldridge's Incomplete and Random Acts of
Kindness first performed at the Royal Court.
20 May
Lin Coghlan's Kingfisher Blue first performed at the Bush Theatre.
7 June
David Farr's The UN Inspector first performed
at the National Theatre.
6 July
Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Shoreditch Madonna first performed at the Soho Theatre.
4 August
The Night Shift by Mark Murphy first performed at the Traverse Theatre,
Edinburgh. Transfers to BAC, London, on 31 August.
5 August
Dennis Kelly's After the End first performed at
the Traverse.
15 August
Blackbird by David Harrower first performed at
the King's Theatre, Edinburgh.
16 August
Fair by Joy Wilkinson first performed at the Finborough Theatre. Later
transfers to the Trafalgar Studios in 2006.
17 August
Mark Ravenhill's Product first performed at the
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Ravenhill himself plays James.
2 September
Richard Bean's Harvest first performed at the
Royal Court.
12 September
David Edgar's Playing with Fire first performed at the National Theatre.
15 September
Mike Leigh's Two Thousand Years first performed at the National.
21 September
Ryan Craig's What We Did to Weinstein first put on at the Menier Chocolate
Factory.
7 October
Gregory Burke's On Tour first performed at the
Royal Court.
12 October
Bottle Universe by Simon Burt first performed at the Bush. Toby Whithouse's
Blue Eyes & Heels first staged at the Soho Theatre.
20 October
Nell Leyshon's Comfort Me with Apples first staged at the Hampstead Theatre.
And Tanika Gupta's Gladiator Games first performed
at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield.
28 October
Gregory Motton's The World's Biggest Diamond first performed at the Royal
Court.
2 November
Christmas Is Miles Away by Chloe Moss first performed
at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
10 November
Tom Murphy's Alice Trilogy first performed at the Royal Court.
16 November
Jack Thorne's When You Cure Me first staged at the Bush Theatre.
17 November
The Rubenstein Kiss by James Phillips first performed at the Hampstead
Theatre.
18 November
Linda Brogan's What's in the Cat first performed at the Contact Theatre,
Manchester.
2006
12 January
O Go My Man by Stella Feehily first performed at the Royal Court. Start
of the theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations.
2 February
Tanika Gupta's Gladiator Games restaged at the
Theatre Royal Stratford East. Tim Luscombe's The Schuman Plan first performed
at the Hampstead Theatre.
7 February
David Harrower's Blackbird, directed by Peter
Stein, transfers to the Albery Theatre, London.
10 February
Southwark Fair by Samuel Adamson first performed
at the National Theatre.
15 February
Other Hands by Laura Wade first performed at the
Soho Theatre.
22 February
Christmas Is Miles Away by Chloe Moss first performed
at the Bush Theatre.
23 February
Mark Ravenhill's The Cut first performed at the
Donmar Warehouse, London.
2 March
The Winterling by Jez Butterworth first performed
at the Royal Court.
5 April
Rainbow Kiss by Simon Farquhar first performed at the Royal Court.
21 April
Motortown by Simon Stephens first staged at the
Royal Court.
3 May
Crooked by Catherine Trieschmann first performed at the Bush.
5 May
Dennis Kelly's shocker, Osama the Hero, first
performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
9 May
The Overwhelming by JT Rogers first performed at the National Theatre.
11 May
Shrieks of Laughter by Moses Raine first performed at the Soho Theatre.
12 May
Dying City by Christopher Shinn first performed at the Royal Court.
16 May
Rabbit by Nina Raine first performed at the Old Red Lion fringe theatre.
Later transfers to the Trafalgar Studios.
18 May
Clever Dick by Crispin Wittell first performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
27 May
Market Boy by David Eldridge first performed at
the National Theatre.
3 June
First performance of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'N' Roll at the Royal Court.
It's a sell-out success, but is it a Royal Court play?
7 June
Cruising by Alecky Blythe first performed at the Bush.
14 August
Anthony Neilson's Realism first performed at the
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.
12 September
Pumpgirl by Abbie Spallen first performed at the Bush theatre.
14 September
Terry Johnson's Piano/Forte first performed at the Royal Court.
22 September
Mark Ravenhill's Pool (No Water) first staged
at the Drum, Plymouth. Later transfers to the Lyric, Hammersmith.
8 November
Whipping It Up by Steve Thompson first performed at the Bush Theatre.
10 November
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You? by Caryl Churchill first performed at
the Royal Court.
23 November
The Glass Room by Ryan Craig first performed at
the Hampstead.
