Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Einstein's Gift
A Canadian play based on the life and work of Nobel Laureate Dr Fritz. Haber, who risked everything for a country that never accepted him, but used his work to murder millions.
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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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The Secret Garden (stage version)
The complete book and lyrics of Norman's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's classic.
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Tales of the Lost Formicans and other plays
Four plays from one of America's finest playwrights, endowed with compassion, keen insight and an unfailing comic sensibility.
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Etiquette and Vitriol: The Food Chain and other plays
A collection of plays from one of the leading comic voices of his generation, full of his characteristic razor-sharp wit and black humour.
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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
The full text of cult performer Eric Bogosian's solo show, attacking the dark underbelly of the American dream with blistering accuracy.
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Venus
A bold exploration of colonisation and objectification, based on the true story of the 'Hottentot Venus'.
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Michael Weller: Five Plays
A collection of plays from the American writer whose screenplays include Hair and Ragtime.
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References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot and other plays
Three surreal plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, author of Marisol.
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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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Crumbs from the Table of Joy and other plays
A collection of work from leading American playwright Lynn Nottage.
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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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