Term 1

Week 1: Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea (1952)

Week 2: John Osborne, Look Back in Anger (1956)

Week 3: Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey (1958)

Week 4: Arnold Wesker, Roots (1959)

Week 5: Barry Reckord, You in Your Small Corner (1962)

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1953)

Week 8: Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party (1957)

Week 9: Joe Orton, Loot (1965)

Week 10: Edward Bond, Saved (1965)

Term 2

Week 1: John McGrath, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1973)

Week 2: Brian Friel, Translations (1980)

Week 3: Caryl Churchill, Top Girls (1982)

Week 4: Sarah Kane, Blasted (1995)

Week 5: Debbie Tucker Green, Random (2008)

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7: Jez Butterworth, Jerusalem (2009)

Week 8: Alecky Blythe, London Road (2011)

Week 9: Lolita Chakrabarti, Red Velvet (2012)

Week 10: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag (2013)

Term 3

Student-led seminars on contemporary plays by British playwrights not yet studied on the module.

Examples might include: Bola Agbaje, Mike Bartlett, Alice Birch, Breach Theatre, Inua Ellams, James Graham, Ella Hickson, Arinzé Kene, Lucy Kirkwood, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Duncan Macmillan, Alistair McDowall, Nick Payne, Lucy Prebble, Nina Raine, Ambreen Razia, Roy Williams.