Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Salad Day
A short play about an elderly couple who, trapped in a nursing home, plot a daring escape into the sunshine.
Salt
A modern morality tale about the corrosive effect of money, joint winner of the 2008 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.
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Same
A play exporing the apparent gulf between the young and old, commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival.
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The Same
By Enda WalshA play about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.
Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays
Samskara
An explosive fusion of text, physical theatre and hip-hop dance exploring vulnerability, emotional trauma and what it means to be a black man in twenty-first-century Britain.
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Samuel Takes a Break
in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours
An extraordinary, genre-blending play about colonialism, identity and the attempt to preserve the past, premiered at The Yard Theatre London in 2024.
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The Sánchez Huerta Girl Killed Herself
By Claudia Ríos Translated by Roxana SilbertAfter a young girl's suicide, her parents meet for the first time in years at the school where she died.
Published in volume Mexican Plays
Sandpaper on Sunburn
By David HoranThe personal becomes political in a funny and fascinating play exploring identity and family. Premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in September 2024.
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Satin 'n' Steel
A comic two-hander about the irresistible allure of showbusiness, from the author of Be My Baby.
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Saturday at the Commodore
By Rona MunroA short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.
Published in volume Scot-Free
SAUCE
A play about death and rebirth, from an award-winning Irish playwright.
Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays
SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays
Two sweet and saucy comedies from an award-winning Irish playwright.
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Save + Quit
The stories of four young people in London and Dublin and how they attempt to live in the cities they call home.
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The Saviour
A play charting the extraordinary shift in social, political and religious life in Ireland over the past thirty years.
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Saying Yes
By Griselda Gambaro Translated by Sebastian DoggartA short play by a leading Argentine playwright, telling the shocking story of an everyday trip to the hairdressers.
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Scandaltown
A comedy for the new Restoration of the theatres, set in contemporary, post-pandemic London, full of illicit sex, political hypocrisy and the machinations of a fame-hungry elite.
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Scarborough
By Fiona EvansAn electrifying portrayal of a dangerously charged romance between a fifteen-year-old and their teacher.
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Scenes from a Repatriation
By Joel TanA daring, shape-shifting play about the controversy around a statue in the British Museum, questioning who can claim cultural artefacts – and why. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2025.
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Scenes From the Big Picture
An epic, masterful twenty-plus-character play about Belfast and its multitude of urban denizens.
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Scenes with girls
A witty and caustic play about female friendship, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2020.
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Schreber's Nervous Illness
A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
The Schuman Plan
By Tim LuscombeThe story of post-war Britain and its love-hate relationship with Europe, recounted as a thrilling, fast-moving epic of machiavellian politics and private heartbreak.
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Scissors
By Chris BushA play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.
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