Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
2.5 Minute Ride & 101 Humiliating Stories
Two solo pieces by the award-winning American performer, and founder member of the Five Lesbian Brothers troupe.
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Prelude to a Kiss and other plays
A collection of work by one of America's most important and influential playwrights.
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Reckless and other plays
A 'greatest hits' volume by one of the best-known gay playwrights in the US.
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Flower Drum Song
The Classic 1958 musical brilliantly updated by the leading Asian-American playwright.
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Richard Maxwell: Plays 1996-2000
The first collection of work by one of America's most important, vital and original young voices, including Boxing 2000, Caveman and the OBIE-Award winning House.
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Talk Radio
A high-voltage portrait of a late-night shock jock, made into a film by Oliver Stone.
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The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays
Tender, uncompromising, haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a contemporary chronicle of the lives of East London's young women.
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Latin American Plays
New Drama from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru
Selected by Sebastian DoggartAn essential introduction to the fascinating but largely unexplored theatre of Latin America, featuring new translations of five contemporary plays written by some the region's most exciting writers.
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The Resistance Trilogy
Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by the author.
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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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Bingo!
Just because we’re all grown up doesn’t mean we have everything figured out. As five old friends try to reclaim their high school glory days, they charge headfirst into the secrets they all tried to run so far from.
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House of Many Tongues
Somehow, two families are going to have to live together — if they don’t kill each other first. Jonathan Garfinkel's gripping socio-political drama 'attacks the Israeli-Palestinian question through laughs and magic realism' NOW Magazine.
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Irish Shorts
Two-handers from the Abbey Theatre, Ireland
Selected by Aideen HowardA collection of short plays by exciting new Irish writers, selected and introduced by the literary manager of the Abbey Theatre.
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Barbecue / Bootycandy: two plays
Two plays by a leading African-American playwright and director, Barbecue and Bootycandy.
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Maydays & Trying It On: two plays
By David EdgarTwo plays by David Edgar, written thirty-five years apart, both exploring the theme of youth and revolution.
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Plays from VAULT 4
Seven new plays from VAULT Festival
An anthology of seven of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2019, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.
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Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
The fifth volume of the collected plays of one of our finest playwrights.
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Plays from VAULT 5
Five new plays from VAULT Festival
This anthology, the fifth from Nick Hern Books, comprises five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2020, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.
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Plays from VAULT 6
Five new plays from VAULT Festival
An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2023, London's leading festival of live performance.
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Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts
Five Plays
Five short plays by the award-winning Irish playwright, full of warmth, humour and irrepressible characters.
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Possible Worlds
By John MightonTwo lovers experience a baffling series of relationships together, each one just slightly and tantalizingly different.
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Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy
Three plays from the award-winning Latino comedy trio.
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Five Lesbian Brothers: Four Plays
New York-based Theatre troupe Five Lesbian Brothers explore themes of homophobia and sexism with devastating humour and the occasional song. They have been committed to creating provocative lesbian theatre with positively no whining since their inception in 1989.
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