Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Irish Shorts
Two-handers from the Abbey Theatre, Ireland
A collection of short plays by exciting new Irish writers, selected and introduced by the literary manager of the Abbey Theatre.
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Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers
Four urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing young people today.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Barbecue / 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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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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The fifth volume of the collected plays of one of our finest playwrights.
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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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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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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts
Five Plays
Five short plays by the award-winning Irish playwright, full of warmth, humour and irrepressible characters.
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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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Decade
Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.
By variousTen years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.
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£15.99£12.79Add to basketEbook£15.99£12.79The Crack in the Emerald
New Irish Plays
Edited by David GrantFour Irish plays from the late 1980s, selected and introduced by David Grant of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
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The Wexford Trilogy
By Billy RocheSet in a snooker club, a betting shop and a local church, each play introduces a mix of young cornerboys, old cowboys and chancers of any age in a lyrical, poignant and often hilarious account of lost dreams and thwarted ambitions.
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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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The Ladies Foursome
By Norm FosterA funny, fast-paced, heartwarming story of friendship inspired by Norm Foster's popular play The Foursome.
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The Melville Boys
By Norm FosterOwen and Lee Melville arrive at a lakeside cabin for a weekend of fishing, but their plans are thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters who become catalysts for a tenderly funny and unsentimental look at four lives in transition.
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