Modern Drama

A group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors, in Robert Holman's first full-length play.

A gorilla is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community on the isolated North Yorkshire coast, in a play that explores fears of the unknown.

From a Cambridge college to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self in the midst of a shifting, uncertain world.

An aspiring academic arrives on a Greek island to interview a reclusive scientist, in a play about history and the stories we tell each other to make sense of ourselves.

A thrilling play inspired by the true-crime story of the Slenderman.

A play exploring the experiences of growing up mixed-race in twenty-first century Ireland.

The heartbreaking and hilarious true story of the author's own experience of ovarian cancer.

An astonishing, tragic and uplifting verbatim play about the care system in the UK today.

A poignant exploration of fallen idols, family secrets and the human price of forgiveness.

A five-star hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Fanboy is a love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia, about a thirty-something, self-confessed nerd obsessed with Star Wars and Nintendo.

A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.

A powerful solo show about family, anti-Blackness, and what we're willing to sacrifice for love.

A tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, staged at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.

A short play in which five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin.

A short play in which two lost souls – a young heroin addict and a reclusive middle-aged farmer – discover a budding friendship in the bogs of Meath.

A short play in which two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.

A short play about the life and soul of an older actor living in care with Alzheimer's disease.

A play exploring the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country he's running from.