Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Marsha Norman: Four Plays
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'night, Mother comes an unforgettable collection of plays.
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Driving Miss Daisy
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play which became the Oscar-winning film - a delicate depiction of racial tensions and of growing old.
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First Run
New Plays by New Writers
Five significant debut plays – first staged in the UK in the late eighties – from writers who have gone on to establish their reputations in major theatres.
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Prickly Heat
A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.
Inventing a New Colour
A war-time Exeter family takes in an evacuee from London.
Icecream
An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.
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Cloud Nine
A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.
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Traps
An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.
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Ghetto
By Joshua Sobol Adapted by David LanThe true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.
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Edgar: Shorts
By David EdgarA collection of shorter plays from stage and television by one of the UK's foremost political playwrights.
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Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays
By Tina HoweFour plays by Tina Howe: Coastal Disturbances, Museum, The Art of Dining and Painting Churches.
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Sister Suzie Cinema
The Collected Poems and Performances 1976-1986
By Lee BreuerA 'doo-wop opera' inspired by Lee Breuer's coming of age amidst the pop culture of the 50s.
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The Gospel at Colonus
By Lee BreuerWriting at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.
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Playing for Time
The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself.
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Sunday 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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New Scottish Plays
Edited by Alasdair CameronA collection of seven plays from Scottish writers, reflecting the upsurge in Scottish playwriting in the late twentieth century.
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The Letter-Box
A short play about domestic abuse, and its terrifying impact on families.
Published in volume Scot-Free
Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (original Traverse Theatre version)
By Chris HannanA contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.
Published in volume Scot-Free
Dead Dad Dog
By John McKayAn offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.
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Writer's Cramp
By John ByrneThe debut play from the author of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti, taking satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions.
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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.
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The Steamie
By Tony RoperA celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.
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Out From Under
Texts by women performance artists
Edited by Lenora Champagne By variousA collection of provocative, ambitious texts by women performance artists.
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