• 1985 Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award for The Grace of Mary Traverse
• 1988 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for Our Country's Good
• 1988 Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play for Our Country's Good
• 1989 Eileen Anderson Central Television Drama Award for The Love of the Nightingale
• 1990 Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play (New York) Our Country's Good
• 1991 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best West End Play (London) Three Birds Alighting on a Field
• 1992 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Three Birds Alighting on a Field
• 1992 Writers' Guild Award (Best West End Play) Three Birds Alighting on a Field

• This Is No Place for Tallulah Bankhead, 1978
• The Third, 1980
• Second Sentence, 1980
• Case to Answer, 1980
• Breaking Through, 1980
• New Anatomies, 1981
• Inside Out, 1982
• Home Leave, 1982
• Abel’s Sister, 1984
• The Grace of Mary Traverse, 1985
• Our Country's Good, 1988
• The Love of the Nightingale, 1989
• Three Birds Alighting on a Field, 1992
• The Break of Day, 1995
• After Darwin, 1998
• Dianeira 1999
• The Ash Girl (adaptation of "Cinderella"), 2000
• Credible Witness, 2001
• Galileo's Daughter, 2004
• Divine Intervention, 2006
• Jen?fa by Gabriela Preissova (adaptation), 2007
• Arden City (For the National Theatre Connections program) 2008
• The Line, 2009

• What is the custom of your grief? (radio)

Translation

• Mephisto by Ariane Mnouchkine (1986)
• Leocadia by Jean Anouilh (1987)
• False Admissions; Successful Strategies; La Dispute: Three Plays by Marivaux (1989)
• The Thebans by Sophocles (1992)
• Filumena by Eduardo de Filippo (1998)
• Hippolytus by Euripides (2009)
• Phedre by Jean Racine (2009)