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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The People Next Door

The People Next Door

By Henry Adam

A black comedy about the post-9/11 world and what happens when someone else's global problem becomes your local one.

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Tape

Tape

By Stephen Belber

An unsettling and unpredictable drama about the love-hate chemistry that endures between friends.

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The Fire This Time

The Fire This Time

African-American Plays for the 21st Century

Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Robert Alexander

A collection of African-American plays for the 21st century.

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Luna Park: short plays and monologues

Luna Park: short plays and monologues

By Donald Margulies

A collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, featuring three decades' worth of short plays, one-acts and monologues.

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Duck

Duck

By Stella Feehily

A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin. 

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Thebans

Thebans

By Liz Lochhead

The Ancient myths of the Kingdom of Thebes re-told by Scotland's foremost poet/dramatist.

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Playing the Victim

Playing the Victim

By The Presnyakov Brothers Translated by Sasha Dugdale

A darkly absurd play from the authors of Terrorism.

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Come Out Eli

Come Out Eli

By Alecky Blythe

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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I.D.

I.D.

By Antony Sher

An enthralling drama about the man who killed Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of South African apartheid.

The Maths Tutor

The Maths Tutor

By Clare McIntyre

A wry and incisive play exposing how our desire for a normal family life and our fears about adults, young people and sex, can sometimes outride the truth.

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Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma

Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma

By Gustave Flaubert Adapted by Fay Weldon

Flaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the acclaimed novelist.

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Gilt

Gilt

By Stephen Greenhorn, Rona Munro and Isabel Wright

An exciting innovation: three of Scotland's top playwrights combine forces on a single play - staged by 7:84 Scotland in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.

Airsick

Airsick

By Emma Frost

A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.

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Topdog/Underdog

Topdog/Underdog

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

By Rufus Norris

The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.

Loyal Women

Loyal Women

By Gary Mitchell

A gripping and explosive drama from the multi-award winning playwright.

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Prelude to a Kiss and other plays

Prelude to a Kiss and other plays

By Craig Lucas

A collection of work by one of America's most important and influential playwrights.

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References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot and other plays

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot and other plays

By José Rivera

Three surreal plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, author of Marisol.

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