Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Treasure Island (stage version)
A fresh and genuinely thrilling adaptation of the classic tale, and one that keeps close to Stevenson's original story.
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Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete stage version)
A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.
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The Treatment
By Martin CrimpMartin Crimp's razor-sharp satire about a world in which people are products, movies are money and sex sells.
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The Tree of Knowledge
By Jo CliffordA wildly imaginative, hilariously provocative and deeply moving play from one of Scotland's most important playwrights.
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Treetops
A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
Trestle
A tender but truthful exploration of love and ageing, asking how we choose to live in the face of soaring life expectancies. Winner of the 2017 Papatango New Writing Prize.
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The Trials
By Dawn KingA searing play set in a near-future world, where those responsible for the climate emergency are being judged by a younger generation.
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Tribes
By Nina RaineA penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication.
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Trouble in Mind
A radical satire of racism in theatre, widely considered the masterpiece of actress and playwright Alice Childress.
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The True Life Fiction of Mata Hari
A play about the notorious World War One femme fatale known as Mata Hari.
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True Love Lies
By Brad FraserFrom the Canadian author of Cold Meat Party and Love and Human Remains, in sharp, non-stop dialogue, True Love Lives tears open the nuclear family and finds the heart that is often lost and forgotten.
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Trust
A play about the bonds of trust in a tight-knit Loyalist community, and how easily they are shattered, from the multi-award winning writer of The Force of Change.
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truth and reconciliation
A play about the aftermath of violence, in conflicts around the world from Rwanda to Northern Ireland, and from Zimbabwe to Bosnia.
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Trying It On
By David EdgarAn autobiographical monologue, written to be performed by its author David Edgar, in which Edgar at seventy confronts the ideals of his twenty-something self.
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Trying to Find Chinatown
David Henry Hwang is known for exploring the complex relationships which bridge Eastern and Western culture in modern America. It is a subject that has long haunted American drama: how, in a land of immigrants, does one deal with one's heritage and construct a sense of identity.
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Tuesday
With a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth
By Alison Carr Translated by Daf JamesA funny and playful drama written specifically for young people, about what happens when the world literally turns upside-down. Bilingual edition: includes the original English play with a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth, by playwright Daf James.
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Tuesdays at Tesco's
A touching one-person play about a person's true identity, the first English-language adaptation of Emmanuel Darley's hit play, Le Mardi à Monoprix.
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Tumulus
A chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath.
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The Turn of the Screw (stage version)
By Henry James Adapted by Rebecca LenkiewiczA chilling adaptation of Henry James's classic ghost story.
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Twilight Song
By Kevin ElyotKevin Elyot's evocative final play, a hilarious and heartbreaking tale of one family's hidden liaisons over half a century.
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twins
By James FritzA short play about twins whose lives diverge, first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.
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Two Billion Beats
An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.
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Two Billion Beats (short play version)
A short play about the unfairness of growing up in a world where you don't make the rules. First performed as part of Inside/Outside, a season of short plays staged at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.
Published in volume Inside/Outside
Two for the Show
Scenes for student actors
Edited by Brian KennedyA fascinating collection of short scenes for two actors. Drawn from the work of Canada's premiere playwrights, the thirty-nine different scenes have been chosen by an experienced drama teacher, with easy directions and theatre terms explained.
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