2020 Shortlist
We were delighted to receive 1,169 submissions to the Prize. 70 plays were longlisted, and below are the 35 plays that made it to the shortlist.
…blackbird hour by babirye bukilwa
A Rat, A Rat by Chloe Yates
Colostrum by Olivia Hennessy
Contact Centre by Victoria Barclay
Core by Jennifer Lunn
Deepa the Saint by Sonali Bhattacharyya
Everything Must Go by Caitlin McEwan
EZRA by Stella Green
Fly Home Butterfly by Tife Kusoro
Full English by Silva Semerciyan
Giddyup’s Way by Ciara Cassoni
happy sad virginia! By Deborah Acheampong
How the Dodo Died and Other Stories by Jenny Knotts
Kelp by Gaia Sorcha Fenn
Leaving Eden by Sophia Chetin-Leuner
My Brother’s Keeper by Kim Taylor
PARADISE STREET by Chino Odimba
Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me by Amy Trigg
Red Sky at Night by Eve Leigh
Savage by Jane Bodie
Smethwick by Yolanda Mercy
Static by Saskia Livingstone
SUPER BLOOD WOLF MAN by Alice Allemano
The Credibility Assessment by Amanda Wilkin
THE ESTATE by Shaan Sahota
The Good People by Camilla Whitehill
The Sub-Let Next to Heaven by Madeleine Accalia
The Swell by Isley Lynn
The Virgins by Miriam Battye
This Might Not Be It by Sophia Leuner
We’ll Be Who We Are by Naomi Obeng
WHAT YOU DO WITH THE DEAD IS YOU BURY THEM by Selma Dimitrijevic
When the Sea Swallows Us Whole by Natasha Collie
White Tuesday by Eve Leigh
YOU BURY ME by Ahlam