Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Stolen Secrets

From the heart of London's East End, Stolen Secrets are urban fairytales, bold, lyrical and gruesome, that can be performed individually or together for maximum shock value.

Stones in His Pockets

Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.

    Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays

    Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, and an earlier monologue A Night in November.

    stoning mary

    Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology.

    Stoopud Fucken Animals

    A pitch-black comedy complete with wickedly entertaining songs, from the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning writer of Food.

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    Stop/Over

    A night of debauchery and delicate connection in a play set in the city that never sleeps.

    Storefront Church

    A compassionate morality tale about a elected official in the Bronx forced into a confrontation by the mortgage crisis, Storefront Church is the concluding part of John Patrick Shanley's 'Church and State' trilogy of plays.

    Stories

    A funny and touching play about the fertilisation of an idea. Premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2018.

    Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran

    Four plays from leading Iranian dramatists, translated into English for the first time: Aurash, The Death of the King, Stories from the Rains of Love and Death and Interrogation.

    Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

    Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.

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    Straight White Men & Untitled Feminist Show: two plays

    Two compassionately subversive plays about identity, by Young Jean Lee, a Korean American playwright whose work is groundbreaking, humorous and often thrillingly transgressive.

    The Strange Death of John Doe

    A powerful and poignant drama about the search for the identity of a young man whose body is found face down in a suburban street.

    A Strange Loop

    A blistering original musical about a young artist at war with a host of demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards.

    Strangers in Between

    Tommy Murphy's unflinching and constantly surprising drama about how we make sense of who we are through our often fraught relations with others.

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    strangers, babies

    The chilling story of one woman's desperate attempts at a future that's worth living.

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    Strategic Love Play

    A Fringe First-winning play that, with acid wit, takes a scalpel to modern romance.

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    Strawberries in January

    A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montréal, in a version by Rona Munro.

    The Strongbox

    A story of domestic servitude and abuse of power.

    Stuff

    A play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.

    Stunning and other plays

    The first collection by a striking new voice in American theatre.

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    The Substance of Fire and other plays

    This collection contains Jon Robin Baitz's debut play, The Film Society, alongside two more recent works: The End of the Day and the title play, The Substance of Fire.

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    subUrbia

    An updated version of Bogosian's theatrical tour de force.

    Sucking Dublin

    A fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.

    Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

      A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain

      A poetic fable for the stage, about an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own.