Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Suffs
An epic musical about the unsung trailblazers of the American women's suffrage movement. Winner of the 2024 Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.
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Sugar Baby
A one-man comedy-drama about a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Sugar Wife
Love, lust, prostitution and slavery in a 19th-century Quaker household. New edition published alongside the 2024 revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Suitcase Kid (stage version)
By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky IrelandAn adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Sunday in the Park with George
By Stephen Sondheim and James LapineThe Pulitzer-winning musical inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, celebrating the art of creation and the creation of art.
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Sunrise
By Jessie CaveAn honest, tender-hearted and uproariously funny story from actress, comedian, writer and doodler Jessie Cave – with colour illustrations throughout.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Sunset at the Villa Thalia
A funny and passionate play from the author of The Pride and The Faith Machine.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Sunset Song (stage version)
By Lewis Grassic Gibbon Adapted by Alastair CordingA classic of Scots literature, brilliantly adapted for the stage.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£8.99£7.19Superhoe
By Nicôle LeckyThe hit stage play behind the BAFTA-winning BBC TV drama series Mood, about a twenty-something who spends all her time on social media while dreaming of becoming a success.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Superior Donuts
By Tracy LettsAn entertaining comedy-drama set in a local donut shop in the heart of one of Chicago's most diverse communities. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of August: Osage County.
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Surrender
By Sophie Swithinbank With Phoebe LadenburgA gripping play about a woman trying to survive in a punishing and dysfunctional penal system that has separated her from her daughter. Premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (stage version)
By Kate Summerscale Adapted by Alexandra WoodA stage adaptation of Kate Summerscale's bestselling non-fiction thriller, about the investigation of a Victorian country house murder.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Swallow
By Stef SmithPassionate, painful and playful, Stef Smith’s Swallow takes a long, hard look at the extremes of everyday life.
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A wonderfully theatrical adaptation of the much-loved children's classic, with songs by Neil Hannon.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Swan
By D C MooreAn examination of the ties that hold us together in a fractured society.
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Sweat
By Lynn NottageA topical reflection of the present and poignant outcome of America's economic decline. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Best Play at the 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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£10.99£8.79
Sweeney Todd
By Stephen Sondheim and Hugh WheelerThe gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.
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£12.99£10.39
The Sweet Science of Bruising
An epic tale of passion, politics and pugilism in the world of 19th-century women’s boxing.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Swimming to Cambodia
Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.
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Switzerland
A gripping psychological thriller, filled with razor-sharp dialogue.
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By Ella HicksonSex is power in the reign of Elizabeth I. Ella Hickson's play explores the ways and means by which women in power negotiate patriarchal pressure in order to get their way.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Table
By Tanya RonderAn epic tale of belonging, identity and the things we pass on.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39A Table Tennis Play
By Sam SteinerA play about how everything and nothing changes as people bat a ball.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Take Care
An astonishing, tragic and uplifting verbatim play about the care system in the UK today.
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