Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Monument
A powerful play exploring the ambiguities of morality and justice in a time of war when a young soldier is convicted of war crimes.
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The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume I
Thornton Wilder's short plays, published for the first time in two volumes.
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Pride's Crossing
A play about Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel.
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Just the Three of Us
A stylish mix of the comic and the macabre, exploring ideas about love, both platonic and romantic.
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Trust
A play about the bonds of trust in a tight-knit Loyalist community, and how easily they are shattered, from the multi-award winning writer of The Force of Change.
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This is a Chair
A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.
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Two for the Show
Scenes for student actors
Edited by Brian KennedyA fascinating collection of short scenes for two actors. Drawn from the work of Canada's premiere playwrights, the thirty-nine different scenes have been chosen by an experienced drama teacher, with easy directions and theatre terms explained.
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The Clink
A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.
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Last Dance at Dum Dum
A serious comedy from the author of East is East, about the dying breed of Anglo-Indians living in Calcutta in 1985.
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Arabian Nights (Young Vic stage version)
A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.
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Riddance
By Linda McLeanA chilling emotional thriller about two men and a woman bound together by the secrets of surviving a childhood in a Glasgow tenement.
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Spanish Plays
Edited by Elyse Dodgson and Mary PeateA collection of modern Spanish and Catalan plays in translations by practising English playwrights, commissioned and first staged by the Royal Court Theatre.
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The Deep Blue Sea
Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.
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Separate Tables
Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth.
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The Winslow Boy
Rattigan's 1946 play based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order.
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King of the Fields
A play set in Ayrshire after the First World War, with touches of Ibsen - from the acclaimed Scottish playwright.
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The Adventures of a Young Black Girl in Search of God
By Djanet SearsRainey Baldwin-Jackson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintegration of her marriage, and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.
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Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy
Three plays from the award-winning Latino comedy trio.
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