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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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By Caryl Churchill

A short play about sponsorship and the arts.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
    Tiger Country

    Tiger Country

    By Nina Raine

    A hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.

    Till the Stars Come Down

    Till the Stars Come Down

    By Beth Steel

    A heartbreaking and hilarious portrayal of a larger-than-life family struggling to come to terms with a changing world.

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    Tilt

    Tilt

    By Ailis Ni Riain

    A beautifully simple debut play, about a woman's search for answers to her family's self destruction.

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    The Time Machine: A Comedy

    The Time Machine: A Comedy

    By Steven Canny and John Nicholson

    A fast-paced, wise-cracking, riotous play, loosely based on H.G. Wells's masterpiece, that zips from the nineteenth century to the end of the world, and (with any luck) back again.

    Time Spent on Trains

    Time Spent on Trains

    By Elizabeth Kuti

    A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.

    Published in volume Fishskin Trousers
      Time Stands Still

      Time Stands Still

      By Donald Margulies

      A photojournalist is at home in Brooklyn recovering from serious wounds sustained whilst out covering war-torn Iraq, but longs for the adrenalin rush of her past.

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      A Time to Keep

      A Time to Keep

      By Stephanie Dale and David Edgar

      A large-scale historical romp in the terrain between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

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      A Time to Reap

      A Time to Reap

      By Anna Wakulik Translated by Catherine Grosvenor

      A play that follows one woman from a Polish village to the bright lights of London, exploring the issue of abortion and the Catholic Church.

      Tinderbox

      Tinderbox

      By Lucy Kirkwood

      A fast, wild and farcically funny play with a disturbing vision of a dystopian future.

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      Tituba

      Tituba

      By Winsome Pinnock

      Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.

      To Sir, With Love

      To Sir, With Love (stage version)

      By E. R. Braithwaite Adapted by Ayub Khan Din

      An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain. 

      Today

      Today

      By Robert Holman

      From a Cambridge college to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self in the midst of a shifting, uncertain world.

      Tomcat

      Tomcat

      By James Rushbrooke

      Winner of the 2015 Papatango New Writing Prize, Tomcat is a play set in a future world where diseases and disorders have been wiped out. How far will we go to keep humanity healthy?

      Too Much World at Once

      Too Much World at Once

      By Billie Collins

      An urgent coming-of-age story for our times, a lyrical, theatrical journey that spans continents and lives.

      Topdog/Underdog

      Topdog/Underdog

      By Suzan-Lori Parks

      A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

      Touch

      Touch

      By Vicky Jones

      A shamelessly funny and brutally honest play about sex, connection and control.

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      Touched

      Touched

      By Stephen Lowe

      A revered modern classic about life in a working-class suburb of Nottingham in the closing days of World War II.

      Toxic

      Toxic

      By Nathaniel J Hall

      A powerful and passionate play about the devastating impact of generational HIV stigma, racism, homophobia and repressive gender norms. Premiered at HOME, Manchester, in 2023, before touring the UK in 2025.

      trade

      trade

      By debbie tucker green

      A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.

      Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
        trade & generations: two plays

        trade & generations: two plays

        By debbie tucker green

        Two plays from the acclaimed playwright debbie tucker green.

        Traps

        Traps

        By Caryl Churchill

        An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.

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        Travelling Light

        Travelling Light

        By Nicholas Wright

        A funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age.

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        Travesty

        Travesty

        By Liam Williams

        The debut play by Liam Williams, double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee - about gender and the ethical dimensions of modern love.