Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen
A dark and biting comedy about vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonAll of Us
A passionate and timely drama that looks at the human cost of abandoning those who struggle to fit in.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonChasing Hares
A play about resistance and dignity in the face of global exploitation. Winner of Theatre Uncut's 2021 Political Playwriting Award.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonPennyroyal
By Lucy RoslynA heartrending new play about sisterhood and motherhood; enduring love and regrets many years in the making.
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A-Typical Rainbow
By JJ GreenA play about life as seen from within the autistic community.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonBleak Expectations (stage version)
By Mark EvansA brand new stage adaptation based on hit BBC Radio 4 series by Mark Evans.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonFavour
A touching and hopeful family drama that tackles duty, addiction and the battle of putting yourself back together.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonThe Climbers
By Carmen NasrA mesmerising and thrilling play about the lure of the mountains, the drive to conquer and the price of staying alive.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonRock / Paper / Scissors
By Chris BushThree intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy.
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£18.99£15.19Pre-orderEPUB£18.99£15.19Available soonThe Southbury Child
A darkly comic play exploring family and community, the savage divisions of contemporary society and the rituals that punctuate our lives.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonBangers
A gig-theatre play featuring original music inspired by early noughties and present-day R&B and Garage.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonA Doll's House, Part 2
By Lucas HnathA funny, probing, and bold play that picks up where Ibsen's A Doll's House left off, and offers a sharp contemporary take on the struggles inherent in all human relationships across time.
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Cancelling Socrates
A provocative and witty play about an uncompromising voice in dangerous times.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonNo Particular Order
By Joel TanA startling and apocalyptic play that charts the fate of a society under a despot, through the lives of bureaucrats, soldiers, ornithologists and tour guides.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonEurydice
By Sarah RuhlAlice in Wonderland meets Greek myth in this playful, heart-breaking American take on a timeless tale of loss, grief and redemption.
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The Unfriend
A hilarious and satirical play about middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice, from the writer behind the internationally successful television shows Doctor Who and Sherlock.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEPUB£10.99£8.79Available soonBirds of a Kind
By Wajdi Mouawad Translated by Linda GaboriauA sweeping drama about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which a straitlaced family is forced to confront everything they know about their identities.
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The Children's Republic
A powerful play about Dr Janusz Korczak and his struggle to protect the children at his orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto from the horrors of the Second World War.
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