'I came here for the future. If you can't see a future, what can yer see? Nothing.' From the lawns of King's College, Cambridge, where two shy young men from opposing backgrounds confront the reality...

'History is not the study of facts. It is the study of ourselves. Of our stories. The stories we tell each other.' Nicholas Marks, an aspiring academic from Yorkshire, arrives on the Greek island of Tinos...

'If the French do come, it'll be on a night like this.' A gorilla is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community on the isolated North Yorkshire coast. Robert Holman's play explores...

'When I was a lad, little kiddie, I had this dream. And that was to burn down the world. Smash it up.' A dark and disturbing portrait of mental illness, and its effects on a young family. Barry and Mary...

Robert Holman writes plays of startling beauty, combining close observation of the way people behave with a thrilling and often fiercely uncompromising mastery of dramatic form. He is the playwright most...

Sisters Dolly and Esther grow up in ultra-conservative Harrogate in the 1960s. Fifty years later, following the death of their mother, Dolly comes to stay with Esther – now a successful novelist and living...

Robert Holman's Jonah and Otto is a humane, funny and ultimately haunting play that explores masculinity, identity and what it means to be English.Over the course of a single day, two men share their...

'Stagnant. It's stagnant. Seen more life in a dead rabbit.' A group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors. George, recently retired and grieving for his wife, has come on holiday to fish....

A gripping play about the nature of violence.15-year-old Kerry and her mum have moved to a council estate. Kerry hates it. She hates her mum's new man too. But when she meets a boy in the playground and...

In the haze of a late summer in a London garden, the apples have all fallen to the ground. It is the day of Daddy's funeral, and two orphans find themselves suddenly alone, with nobody to cling to but...

It's the hot, humid, sticky summer of 1977. At a popular birdwatching spot jutting out into the North Sea at the mouth of the Tees, Martin, Jack, Michael and Carol are staring out into the future, their...