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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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New Labour

New Labour

By Marcelo Dos Santos

A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope.

New Music: a trilogy

New Music: a trilogy

By Reynolds Price

Three interrelated plays tracing the tangled path of a family's life in a North Carolina town across 37 years, from before the Second World War to the war in Vietnam.

 
The New Real

The New Real

By David Edgar

An epic, panoramic play about how the political fault-line has been redrawn. Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Headlong in 2024.

next to normal

next to normal

By Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey

The West End edition of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.

Nice Fish

Nice Fish

By Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins

A sublimely playful, profound and very funny play, by celebrated actor Mark Rylance and Minnesotan contemporary prose poet Louis Jenkins.

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The Night Alive

The Night Alive

By Conor McPherson

An inimitably warm and stylish play that deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations.

The Night Heron

The Night Heron

By Jez Butterworth

A dark, funny, spellbinding play about a group of outcasts and eccentrics gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens.

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A Night in November

A Night in November

By Marie Jones

The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

Published in volume Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays
    Night is a Room

    Night is a Room

    By Naomi Wallace

    A searing exploration of love’s power to both ruin and remake our lives.

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    Night of the Assassins

    Night of the Assassins

    By José Triana Translated by Sebastian Doggart

    Three siblings plot to kill their parents in this controversial masterpiece from a major Cuban poet and playwright.

    Night Time

    Night Time

    By Selma Dimitrijević

    A hypnotic noir thriller set in a beguiling world of dream, danger and fantasy.

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    The Nightclub

    The Nightclub

    By Chloe Todd Fordham

    A short play about three very different women at a gay nightclub in Orlando, who are caught up in a terrifying hate crime.

    The Nightingales

    The Nightingales

    By William Gaminara

    A funny, touching and thought-provoking comedy drama about the members of a village choir.

    Nightwatchman

    Nightwatchman

    By Prasanna Puwanarajah

    A British Sri Lankan cricketer prepares for the innings of her life for England against Sri Lanka at Lord’s.

    Nine Lessons and Carols

    Nine Lessons and Carols

    Stories for a Long Winter

    By Chris Bush and Maimuna Memon

    A play about connection and isolation, forged during the Covid pandemic, exploring what we hold on to in troubled times.

    Nine Night

    Nine Night

    By Natasha Gordon

    A touching and very funny exploration of the rituals of family, set amidst a traditional Jamaican Nine Night wake.

    Nineteen Ninety-Two

    Nineteen Ninety-Two

    By Lisa McGee

    A short play about two brothers biding their time to savour revenge - but how can they be sure they've got the right girl?

    Published in volume Irish Shorts
      No Naughty Bits

      No Naughty Bits

      By Steve Thompson

      A gloriously funny play about the nature of comedy, the operation of censorship, and the complex misunderstandings implicit in the Anglo-American relationship.

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      No Particular Order

      No Particular Order

      By Joel Tan

      A startling and apocalyptic play that charts the fate of a society under a despot, through the lives of bureaucrats, soldiers, ornithologists and tour guides.

      No Romance

      No Romance

      By Nancy Harris

      A tender and funny tale about our secret selves, and our search for connection in a fractured world.

      Nora : A Doll's House

      Nora : A Doll's House

      By Stef Smith Original author Henrik Ibsen

      A bold new version of Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood.

      The Normal Heart

      The Normal Heart

      By Larry Kramer

      Larry Kramer's ground-breaking play about the 1980s AIDS crisis, published in a new edition alongside the major National Theatre revival in 2021.

      Marsha Norman: Four Plays

      Marsha Norman: Four Plays

      By Marsha Norman

      From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'night, Mother comes an unforgettable collection of plays.

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