Explore the plays of French playwright Jean-Pierre Martinez by theatrical genre. The collection ranges from situation comedy, black comedy and political satire to crime comedy, romantic comedy, absurd theatre, meta-theatre and dramatic comedy.
Browse the genres below to discover plays available in English for professional companies, community theatres, amateur groups, drama schools and workshops.
Each selection leads to plays with synopses, cast information, scripts available for reading and information about performance rights.
Absurd Theatre
Plays in which familiar reality becomes irrational, paradoxical or unstable, questioning meaning, identity and human existence.
Black comedy
Darkly comic plays dealing with death, morality, misfortune and the absurdity of human behaviour.
Burlesque
Fast-paced comedies built on exaggeration, comic situations and larger-than-life characters.
Chamber plays
Intimate plays for small casts, focused on relationships, confrontation and psychological tension.
Comedy of character
Comedies driven by distinctive personalities, flaws, obsessions and clashes between characters.
Comedy of intrigue
Plot-driven comedies built around secrets, misunderstandings, schemes, revelations and unexpected twists.
Comedy of manners
Social comedies exploring relationships, conventions, hypocrisy and the rituals of everyday life.
Crime comedy
Comedies mixing crime, mystery, investigation and darkly comic situations.
Dramatic comedy
Plays combining humour with more serious, emotional or dramatic situations.
Dystopian theatre
Plays imagining unsettling futures and using fiction to question contemporary society.
Meta-theatre
Plays about theatre itself, actors, playwrights, performance and the boundaries between fiction and reality.
Parody
Comic plays that play with familiar genres, conventions and cultural references.
Political comedy
Satirical plays about power, politics, institutions, ideology and public life.
Romantic comedy
Comedies about couples, attraction, relationships, misunderstandings and the complications of love.
Situation comedy
Comedies built around an unusual situation that generates escalating misunderstandings, reversals and comic tension.