Winner, 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Winner, 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play
Winner, 2013 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play
Winner, 2014 Critics' Circle Best New Play Award
A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West.
Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door, Joe a young American photojournalist captures a piece of history.
New York, 2012. Joe is covering a presidential election, marred by debate over cheap labour and the...

NSFW is -Not Safe for Work.- Lucy Kirkwood's coruscating comedy takes a scathing, hilarious look at the media and, in particular, how magazines objectify women. Premiering at the Royal Court, NSFW is a sharp, biting, satirical new comedy that marks the breakthrough of one of the United Kingdom's most exciting playwrights.

A leading playwright of her generation, Lucy Kirkwood is a writer of savagely funny, highly intelligent, and beautifully observed plays that tackle the pressing issues of our times.
With an introduction by the author, this collection includes five of her plays: Tinderbox, it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now, small hours, NSFW, and Chimerica

"Retired people are like nuclear power stations. They like to live by the sea."
Two ageing nuclear scientists wait in an isolated cottage on the coast, as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request.
Lucy Kirkwood's play The Children premiered at the Royal Court, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs on 17 November 2016.

One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she's telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose. With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst. The Welkin premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2020, directed by James Macdonald and...