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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Middlemarch Trilogy

The Middlemarch Trilogy

By George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers

Three plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.

Ayub Khan Din Plays: One

Ayub Khan Din Plays: One

By Ayub Khan Din

A collection of plays written and introduced by actor-turned-writer Ayub Khan Din, including his first play, East is East, which became a smash-hit film.

The Happiest Song Plays Last

The Happiest Song Plays Last

By Quiara Alegría Hudes

The final installment in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s three-play cycle, which began with Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and Pulitzer Prize-winner Water by the Spoonful.

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The Domino Effect and other plays for teenagers

The Domino Effect and other plays for teenagers

By Fin Kennedy

A second collection of plays by Fin Kennedy, author of How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found and The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays.

The Country House

The Country House

By Donald Margulies

A witty and compelling play that takes a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other’s lives.

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World Factory: The Game

World Factory: The Game

By Zoë Svendsen and Simon Daw

A participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play – as individuals or in teams – the managers of a clothing factory in China.

Angels in America

Angels in America

By Tony Kushner

A magnificent, two-part epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.

Ode to Joy

Ode to Joy

By Craig Lucas

A sensitive drama about the interplay between illness, addiction and love, from the acclaimed American playwright Craig Lucas.

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Plays from VAULT 3

Plays from VAULT 3

Five new plays from VAULT Festival

An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT 2018, London’s biggest and most exciting arts festival.

The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

MALAPROP: plays

MALAPROP: plays

By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP Theatre

Four plays from the award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers: bold, playful, genre-spanning work, all premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival between 2017 and 2023.

The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. Original 2009 edition.

Love & Science

Love & Science

By Richard Foreman

This selection of texts makes original and inimitable works of music-theatre accessible to a wide audience for the first time.

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Spunk

Spunk

By George C. Wolfe

A dazzlingly entertaining dramatisation of three stories by the celebrated black iconoclast, Zora Heale Hurston: a rich folk tapestry of rural and urban black America in the 20th century.

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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

By Jo Carson

Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.

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The Floating Island Plays

The Floating Island Plays

By Eduardo Machado

In this tragi-comic quartet, Cuban-American dramatist Eduardo Machado explores the meaning of his homeland's history. The plays tell the stories of several extended families, linked by marriage and then by exile in the United States.

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Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise

Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise

By Harry Kondoleon

These plays are not only jet-black comedies. They are fairy tales, fables, passion plays, masquerades...

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Full Moon and other plays

Full Moon and other plays

By Reynolds Price

Three plays delicately exploring issues of love, faith, family and race.

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