Work

‘A massive talent’

The Times

Plays

Going Out Out (HOME Manchester, 2025)

The Band Back Together (Arcola Theatre and tour, 2024)

We Started To Sing (Arcola Theatre, 2022)

Nightfall (Bridge Theatre, 2018)

While We’re Here (Up In Arms, Bush Theatre and tour, 2017)

Eventide (Up In Arms, Arcola and tour, 2015)

Visitors (Up In Arms, Arcola, Bush Theatre and tour, 2014-15)

Books

Undercurrent (2022)

The Vanishing Hours (2019)

Turning For Home (2018)

The Wellspring: Conversations with David Owen Norris (2018)

Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain (2016)

To Bodies Gone: The Theatre Of Peter Gill (2014)

Collaborations & Adaptations

The Last Ship (music by Sting; Carre Amsterdam, Seine Musicale Paris, Glasshouse Brisbane, Metropolitan Opera New York, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 2026)

Second Best (adapted from the novel by David Foenkinos, Riverside Studios, 2025)

A Stranger Comes To Town (music by Ailie Robertson, sculpture by Charlotte Mellis, An Tobar and tour, 2023-24)

The Wellspring (co-written with David Owen Norris, Royal and Derngate and tour, 2022)

The Remains of the Day (adapted from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Out of Joint, Royal & Derngate and tour, 2019)

‘A brilliant ruralist writer’

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