Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Mad Forest
A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events.
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The Way We Live Now: American plays and the AIDS crisis
Edited by M. Elizabeth OsbornA collection of dramatic material - plays, extracts from plays and dramatic adaptations - concerning the AIDS epidemic.
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The Shape of the Table
By David EdgarAn urgent political play about the collapse of an Eastern Bloc government at the end of 1989. Part of David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy of plays.
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Love & Science
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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Pacific Overtures
By Stephen Sondheim and John WeidmanExploring the opening up of Japan to American influence and using motifs from Japanese theatre and music, this is one of Sondheim's most adventurous musicals.
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New Music: a trilogy
Three interrelated plays tracing the tangled path of a family's life in a North Carolina town across 37 years, from before the Second World War to the war in Vietnam.
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Spunk
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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The Guid Sisters and other plays
Three plays from the renowned Quebecois writer.
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Manon / Sandra
By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van BurekA controversial but humane play about an obsessively religious girl and a sex-obsessed transvestite, by the renowned Quebecois writer.
Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays
Albertine in Five Times
A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.
Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays
The Guid Sisters
Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.
Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
By Jo CarsonFifty-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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Sweeney Todd
By Stephen Sondheim and Hugh WheelerThe gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.
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Light in the Village
A devastatingly effective modern parable about poverty and corruption in an Indian village.
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Assassins
By Stephen Sondheim and John WeidmanA dark and funny look at the end of the American dream - Stephen Sondheim lifts musical theatre to new heights of brilliance.
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The Floating Island Plays
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
These plays are not only jet-black comedies. They are fairy tales, fables, passion plays, masquerades...
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Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
By Tony KushnerPart One of the two-part Angels in America, an epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.
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A Moon for the Misbegotten
The last work from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, continuing the semi-autobiographical cycle centring on the Tyrone family.
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You're Making A Scene: Scenes from Canadian Plays
Edited by Tony Hamill and Marion GilsenanFifty compelling scenes from Canadian plays; two-handers and three-person scenes; comedic and dramatic; from the largest mainstage hits to the smallest fringe shows.
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Through the Leaves and other plays
By Franz Xaver Kroetz Translated by Roger DowneyThree plays from the controversial German playwright whose works have helped reshape world drama.
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Grace
By Doug LucieA far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.
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The Secret Garden (musical version)
By Marsha Norman Original author Frances Hodgson BurnettThe complete book and lyrics of Norman's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's classic.
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The Rug Merchants of Chaos and other plays
Three astonishingly original, provocative, scathingly funny plays from the Obie award-winning American writer.
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