Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Fences
A landmark play about a baseball star fighting for the right to be first black man to drive a garbage truck in 1950s Pittsburgh.
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Two Trains Running
A play set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969. Part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.
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Radio Golf
A real-estate developer sets about trying to redevelop the 'blighted' Hill District of Pittsburgh in the final part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.
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Love and Human Remains
A violent and sexually explicit study of young adults groping for meaning in a senseless world.
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The 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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In The Heart of America and other plays
A five-play collection of work by an American playwright whose work has mainly premiered in Britain.
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The Clean House and other plays
A collection of plays by the award-winning American playwright Sarah Ruhl, a dramatist with 'a unique comic voice, perspective and sense of theatre' Variety.
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Outspoken
A Canadian Collection of Lesbian Scenes and Monologues
Touching on gender, sexuality, family, pop culture, and history, the pieces in this anthology range from the hilarious to the poignant, the sexy to the sincere, the truthful to the tongue-in-cheek.
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Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora
The first collection of its kind, Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora brings together work by six dynamic Palestinian playwrights from both occupied Palestine and the Diaspora.
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Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays
Three solo plays exploring the lives of three queer youths and their resilience in the face of violence and intolerance. Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.
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Plays for the Public
A volume of plays by the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
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The Language Archive and Other Plays
A new collection of plays by one of the most versatile dramatists in contemporary American theatre.
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Amaryllis & Little Witch
Two dark fairy tales from Canadian playwright Pascal Brullemans.
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Beautiful Man & Other Short Plays
Three short plays from an award-winning Canadian, centring on the inner lives of women.
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The Breathing Hole
Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.
- Paperback£24.99
Andy's Gone
A contemporary Canadian retelling of the story of Antigone.
- Paperback£24.99
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking play by an acclaimed Canadian playwright.
- Paperback£24.99
Birds of a Kind
A sweeping drama about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which a straitlaced family is forced to confront everything they know about their identities.
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