2025 Final Five

The Finalist plays for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2025.

Congratulations to our Final Five playwrights.

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Fucking Jane Austen

Billie Esplen

A time-travelling Jane Austen and her lesbian lover must convince a dying Austen scholar to help them reveal Jane’s sexuality to the world.

THREE BOYS

Danielle James

Three choir boys, learning what it means to love and be loved for the very first time, realise that they have all fallen in love with the same person – the priest that is abusing them.

Sapling

Georgina Duncan

Belfast, 1990. 16 year old Gerry Flynn strives for normality during the last gasps of The Troubles but the events of one day shatter everything.
His brother’s memorial garden is destroyed, his killer released from prison, and the arrival of an enigmatic stranger, Ryan, forces Gerry to confront the haunting dilemma: is Ryan the solution to his problems or the reason they exist in the first place?

THE ROOM

Manjinder Virk

‘The Room’ is set in a fictional writers room on a successful TV show. The room starts to unravel for Charanjeet, the only writer of colour after an unexpected incident.

THE (YELLOW) WALLPAPER

Phoebe Eclair-Powell

Alison is writing an adaptation of The Yellow Wallpaper or is it writing her? A horror show about the horror show of motherhood.