Staged, celebrated and studied: sample these knockout dramas and standout comedies by these select playwrights from the United Kingdom. | Image: Peter Pan (Tristram Kenton)
Tim Firth
Alan Ayckbourn
Edmond Rostand, Martin Crimp
Lucy Prebble
Laura Wade
Charlie Josephine
Mufaro Makubika
Richard Harris
Arnold Ridley
Philip Ridley
Githa Sowerby
James Graham
Caryl Churchill
Enid Bagnold
Patrick Barlow
J.M. Barrie
Alan Bennett
Alice Birch
Howard Brenton
Harold Brighouse
Agatha Christie
Noël Coward
April De Angelis
Michael Frayn
Graham Greene
David Hare
Patrick Hamilton
Multiple Authors
Joe Orton
J.B. Priestley
Terence Rattigan
Willy Russell
Peter Shaffer
Penelope Skinner
Tom Stoppard
Emlyn Williams