Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Gum
Set in a fictional fundamentalist country where chewing gum is outlawed, Gum explores the human need to tame nature and control desire.
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God of Vengeance
Adapted from Sholom Asch's classic morality tale - a work of spellbinding power from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dinner With Friends.
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Homebody/Kabul
A devastating play about Afghanistan and its long, tortured relationship with the West, from the author of Angels in America.
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King Hedley II
Set in the 1980s, King Hedley II is the story of an ex-con in post-Reagan Pittsburgh trying to rebuild his life. Part of August Wilson's ten-play Century Cycle.
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The Light in the Piazza
The book and lyrics of the hit Broadway musical based on Elizabeth Spencer's 1960 novella.
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Defiance
A timely play tackling issues of race and authority within the US Marine Corps - part of a trilogy of plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt, that explore issues of power and morality within a hallowed American institution.
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Beauty of the Father
A play infused by the spirit and language of Lorca, about what we will sacrifice in the name of love.
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Birth and After Birth and Other Plays
Four plays from the award-winning American playwright which together form a complete 'marriage cycle'.
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Mrs. Packard
Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum. Based on true-life historical events, Emily Mann's play tells of one woman's enduring struggle to reform an unfair and ineffectual system.
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Yellow Face
A mock documentary that puts Hwang himself centre-stage as he uses the controversy over colour-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American.
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Road Show
Sondheim's Obie-Award-winning musical telling the real-life story of the Mizner brothers, following their fortunes from the 1890s Alaskan gold rush to the 1920s land boom.
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Shipwrecked!
A story about the nature of storytelling, based on a Victorian hoaxer's tale of being a castaway in the South Pacific - complete with buried treasure, a giant killer octopus, and cannibals.
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Prayer For My Enemy
Billy has returned from Iraq, to discover that his pregnant sister Marianne has married his friend and former lover Tad. Meanwhile, his mother Karen struggles daily to keep her husband Austin from falling off the wagon, and in the backdrop are the Red Sox and Yankees battling it out for the 2004 pennant.
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Stunning and other plays
The first collection by a striking new voice in American theatre.
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Havana is Waiting and other plays
Eduardo Machado’s Havana is Waiting and other plays examines the intersection of the personal and the political on a generation of immigrants. With humor and passion, the author pursues his lifelong exploration of the Cuban-American experience.
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This and Other Plays
The first collection from a major new voice in American theatre.
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Outside Mullingar
A tale of romance between two neighbours in rural Ireland, by turns poetic, uplifting, dark and funny as hell. From the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning author of Doubt.
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The Shadow of the Hummingbird
A charming meditation on the beauty and transience of the world around us, by acclaimed playwright, actor and director Athol Fugard.
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Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays
A collection of plays by the acclaimed film director, playwright and screenwriter: This Is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery and Lobby Hero.
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The Monument
A powerful play exploring the ambiguities of morality and justice in a time of war when a young soldier is convicted of war crimes.
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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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Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays
Edited by Misha BersonA collection of contemporary Asian-American plays.
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Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun
Plays by African-American Women
Edited by Sydné MahoneA collection of plays by African-American women.
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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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