[2] Among these adaptations, This Restless House (2017), Harris’ version of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, imagines Clytemnestra not as someone capable of murder, but as a woman more like herself with no intention to kill.
How to Hold Your Breath (2015) challenges the notion of the ‘everyman’ and Meet me at Dawn (2017) dramatizes the relationship between two women in an examination of grief.
[7] Harris's play By Many Wounds was produced by Hampstead Theatre in 1999, and was shortlisted for the Allied-Domecq and Meyer-Whitworth playwriting awards.
[8][9] Her next play Nightingale and Chase, was produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London 2001 and co-commissioned by Clean Break.
It has been performed many times in translation, notably at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden (2005)[11] and at La Cartoucherie, Paris (2010).
For the Donmar Warehouse, London, she adapted Ibsen's A Doll's House in 2009, relocating the setting to Downing Street in 1909, exploring politics and scandal.
By coincidence, Harris's new version opened in the week the Westminster MP's expenses scandal broke in the UK press.
The Wheel had its U.S. debut at the Steppenwolf Theater of Chicago in 2013, directed by Tina Landau and starring Joan Allen.
Harris' play Solstice had its U.S. debut at the Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago in January 2014, directed by Karen Kessler.
This Restless House was presented again, alongside two other of her plays, putting Harris's work in the centre of Festival Drama programme that year.
[18] Meet me at Dawn was the second of the trio of plays and was presented in a co-production between the EIF and the Traverse Theatre and directed by Orla O'Loughlin.
[21] In 2020, she adapted The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith for a new musical, which was set to premiere in 2021 at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.
[23] Harris’ original play, The Scent of Roses, had its world premiere at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in 2022,[24] followed by a revival of Further than the Furthest Thing at the Young Vic in London the following year.