Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Jack Thorne Plays: Two
Five plays from 'Britain's hottest playwright and screenwriter' (The Times), showcasing his extraordinary ability to combine electrifying dialogue with heartfelt warmth, candour and humour. Plus two short plays and a revealing introduction by the author.
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£18.99£15.19Add to basketEbook£18.99£15.19Quiet in the Land
Set in and around an Amish Community in the Autumn of 1917.
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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
By Alfred UhryThe 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 (musical version)
By Marsha Norman Original author Frances Hodgson BurnettThe 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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Etiquette and Vitriol: The Food Chain and other plays
By Nicky SilverA 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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Michael Weller: Five Plays
A collection of plays from the American writer whose screenplays include Hair and Ragtime.
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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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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
By Tony KushnerA 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
By Craig Lucas and Adam GuettelThe 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
By Nilo CruzA play infused by the spirit and language of Lorca, about what we will sacrifice in the name of love.
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Mrs. Packard
By Emily MannElizabeth 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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