Modern Drama

A razor-sharp comic drama about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder.

Emily's Mann's play about the icon of the American feminist movement, Gloria Steinem. With a Foreword by Gloria Steinem herself.

A moving and darkly comic story of an Afghanistan veteran's search for redemption, and a fascinating insight into the plight of ex-servicemen in modern Britain.

A historical drama about the 18-year-old Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and the protestant reformer, John Knox.

A play about the intersecting lives of four women, and their power to change the course of English history. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre.

A play about the impact of war on a small town in Syria, by a leading Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker.

A hectic and hilarious morality tale for the modern world.

Adapted from Sholom Asch's classic morality tale - a work of spellbinding power from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dinner With Friends.

Science and religion go head to head in this electric tragicomedy: a ferociously funny battle for power, fame and followers.

A timely and compelling play about race, brotherhood and the weight of past mistakes.

A sharp, dark comedy that explores the inescapable difference between feeling 19 and being 19.

A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.

David Hwang invokes the age in which his great grandfather broke with Confucian tradition by converting to Christianity and unbinding his daughter's feet. Golden Child explores the impact of these momentous decisions  on succeeding generations.

A vivid, emotional stage version of Mary Webb's novel of rural passion, premiered by Shared Experience Theatre Company.

A theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control.

A funny, thrilling and provocative play exploring race, resentment and community politics, from a leading South African playwright.

A witty reimagining of a television classic for the stage, with a wellyful of laughs that's sure to delight audiences everywhere.

A funny and tender drama that explores how even if you live on the brink, destiny can have a way of surprising you.

A provocative drama about good intentions going awry, from the well-known stage and screen actor.

A monologue play about a petty criminal who is punished by his conscience when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap.

A bittersweet romantic comedy about finding love later in life, from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.

A taut and tender debut play that asks if it's ever too late to start again.

A wry, tender and fantastical story of love and loneliness in the digital age.

Writing at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.