Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Cling To Me Like Ivy
A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.
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£8.99£7.19Add to basketEbook£8.99£7.19The Clink
A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Close Quarters
By Kate BowenA taut, funny and powerful drama about the first generation of female soldiers to serve in the British infantry in close combat.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Closer to God
By Anna JordanA short play exploring the private worlds of strangers, living side by side but generations apart.
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Closing Time
McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.
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£7.99£6.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£7.99£6.39Cloud Nine
A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.
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By Bruce NorrisAn acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property.
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By Lynn NottageA hilarious and hopeful play from the Pulitzer-winning playwright, set in the bustling kitchen of a run-down Pennsylvania truck stop, where the formerly incarcerated staff have been given a second chance.
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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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Cock
A razor-sharp play about love and identity that redefines the battle of the sexes as we know it.
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Cockroach
By Sam HolcroftA dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.
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A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.
Published in volume Singular Male VoicesCold Meat Party
By Brad FraserA play about a group of former friends reuniting in a B&B for a funeral.
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Cold War (stage version)
Adapted by Conor McPherson Original author Paweł PawlikowskiAn epic love story spanning the decades and breadth of Europe at its most divided, adapted from the Academy Award-nominated film. Premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2023.
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A funny, furious monologue about holding on in this collapsing world.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume I
Thornton Wilder's short plays, published for the first time in two volumes.
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The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume II
Thornton Wilder's short plays, published for the first time in two volumes.
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Collected Stories
A play exploring the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from another person's life.
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The Collector
By Henry NaylorA compelling tale of murder, evil and betrayal set in occupied Iraq, part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.
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The Color of Desire & Hurricane: two plays
By Nilo CruzTwo plays by the acclaimed Cuban-American writer.
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Come On Over
A Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before.
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Come Out Eli
A verbatim play telling the story of the 2002 Hackney siege, as told by the diverse and vibrant community that experienced it.
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The Comeback
By Ben Ashenden and Alex OwenA heartwarming, joyful and dazzlingly funny exploration of bittersweet nostalgia and the enduring power of friendship.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Comeuppance
A bitingly comic, strikingly timely satire for the stage, which asks if we can ever break free from the people we used to be.
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