Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Dreaming and Drowning
An intimate and visceral play that dives into the mind of a young Black queer man wrestling with anxiety. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.
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A riotous comedy about love, death and responsibility.
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Driftwood
By Tim FoleyAn intoxicating and mystical play about love, belonging and the tides within us, premiered by Pentabus and ThickSkin on a tour of the UK.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Drinks Before Dinner
A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.
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Drip
By Tom Wells By (composer) Matthew RobinsA one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.
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By Karen CoganAn infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.
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Drip Feed & The Half Of It: Two Plays
By Karen CoganTwo rich and startling monologues from award-winning actor and playwright Karen Cogan.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Driving Miss Daisy
By Alfred UhryThe Pulitzer Prize-winning play which became the Oscar-winning film - a delicate depiction of racial tensions and of growing old.
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Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam.
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By Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov Translated by Nina RaineA darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.
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Dry Powder
A razor-sharp comedy about the people who shape – and skew – the economy.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Dublin Carol
A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Duck
A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39Duck Duck Goose
A viscerally charged play, full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media.
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A touching play about two teenagers exploring their queer identities.
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Duologue
Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.
Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and DuologueDusk Rings A Bell
A beautifully crafted play from the American playwright, author of Tape and associate writer of The Laramie Project, whose events are echoed in this play.
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A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural
By Tony Kushner and Joachim NeugroschelThe classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, and Joachim Neugroschel.
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ear for eye
Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19Earthquakes in London
An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.
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East Coast Chicken Supper
A scabrously funny look at 'young enterprise' in modern Scotland.
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East is East
A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79East/West Quartet
By Ping ChongFour plays - spanning a decade - from the leading Chinese-American playwright.
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Echoes
By Henry NaylorA bloody tale of colonialism – ancient and modern – and the rhyme of history. Part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.
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