Lowe's plays have dealt with subjects ranging from the takeover of Tibet by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1959 ("Tibetan Inroads") to a dying DH Lawrence trying find a publisher for Lady Chatterley ("Empty Bed Blues"); from Donald McGill postcards ("Cards" and "Kisses on the Bottom") to Dr John Dee ("The Alchemical Wedding"). His best known plays are "Touched", about a group of working-class women in Nottingham at the end of the second world war; "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists", about a group of house-painters in 1906 (adapted from the novel by Robert Tressell); and "Old Big ‘Ead in the Spirit of the Man", in which football hero Brian Clough comes back from the dead to inspire a playwright working on his latest play.