Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Fair
A powerful drama about the potent appeal of far right policies to young people in the UK.
Felt Effects
A play that unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.
Tearing the Loom
A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.
In a Little World of Our Own
A powerful drama about how the conflict in Northern Ireland affects whole families, and of how the violence of the streets is brought into the heart of the home.
Fifty Words
A searingly honest, beautifully observed portrait of marriage.
Side Effects
Michael Weller's Fifty Words culminated in one desperate phone call. Side Effects is the story of what happened on the other end of the line.
Do Not Disturb
Two ex-lovers meet up after an 11-year gap for a nerve-jangling reunion.
Enter A Gentleman
A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.
Time Spent on Trains
A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.
Wolf Hall (stage version)
The first part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.
Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)
The second part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.
An Intervention
A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend.
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£10.99£8.79Chancers
A fast and furious comedy about the lengths we will go to when our backs are against the wall.
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£9.99£7.99A Handful of Stars
By Billy RocheA gripping but warm-spirited snapshot of life in a small southern Irish town.
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£9.99£7.99Fabulation
By Lynn NottageIn Fabulation, playwright Lynn Nottage reimagines Esther (the character from her companion play, Intimate Apparel) as Undine, the public relations diva of today, who spirals downward from her swanky Manhattan office to her roots back in Brooklyn.
Published in volume Intimate Apparel & Fabulation: Two PlaysThe Shipment
The Shipment is a provocative look at African-American identity in today's not-quite post-racial society.
Published in volume The Shipment and Lear: two playsLear
Young Jean Lee's Lear is an alternative re-working of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy, focusing on the king's three daughters.
Published in volume The Shipment and Lear: two plays
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