Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Hungry
A play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Medicine & The Same: two plays
By Enda WalshTwo plays by Enda Walsh: Medicine, a dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'; and The Same, about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.
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By Frances PoetFrances Poet's play is a cathartic story of life, loss and joy, full of tenderness and humour, as five Edinburgh souls stagger towards each other and are transformed.
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By Enda WalshA dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.
Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two playsThe Same
By Enda WalshA play about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.
Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two playsLava
One woman's journey into her own past becomes inextricably linked with the tides of global history in this wickedly funny, strikingly lyrical and explosive debut play. Winner of the 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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A psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them – and the climate around them – is hostile?
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By Nina RaineA beautiful, profound and funny play about Johann Sebastian Bach, the irascible and turbulent composer, and his family business.
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A heart-warming and belly-achingly funny story about falling in love for the very first time.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39For The Grace Of You Go I
By Alan HarrisA darkly funny, quick-witted, fast-moving comedy about a man whose life is going nowhere.
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A witty and tender play about two old flames who meet again, after thirty years, at a student reunion.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)
By Rob MadgeA joyous, chaotic, autobiographical play telling the story of actor, writer and social-media sensation Rob Madge as they set out to recreate a Disney parade they performed as a twelve-year-old for their Grandma.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Saviour
A play charting the extraordinary shift in social, political and religious life in Ireland over the past thirty years.
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The Merthyr Stigmatist
By Lisa ParryA fierce and exhilarating play about faith and truth, a hymn to community, and a testament to the power of young people.
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A thrilling and razor-sharp twisted comedy on the corrosive effects of social media and isolation.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Little Wars
Set in the French Alps in 1940, this thrilling play – based on truth – is an enthralling, entertaining and ultimately moving portrait of seven exceptional women.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Crumbs from the Table of Joy
By Lynn NottageAn arresting, thought-provoking play about racial and social issues of the late 1950s, by the first woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
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The Motherhood Project
Monologues and Reflections on Motherhood
By variousA collection of dramatic monologues and real-life reflections by some of the UK's leading writers, artists and thinkers, and explores all the guilt, joy and absurdity, the regrets, pressures and taboos surrounding motherhood.
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