Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
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.
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Andy's Gone
A contemporary Canadian retelling of the story of Antigone.
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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.
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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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The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
Tony Kushner's turbulent epic about a retired longshoreman who feels that the world has turned its back on everything he has fought for in life.
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Ironbound & Sanctuary City: two plays
Two compelling, uncompromising plays about the immigrant experience, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Cost of Living.
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Scorched
A haunting, poetic play from one of Canada's leading playwrights, Scorched is a powerful investigation of trauma and family ties.
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Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays
This first major collection of contemporary Native American writing for the theatre ranges from the groundbreaking work of Body Indian to the experimental performance style of Spiderwoman Theater.
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The Baltimore Waltz and other plays
A collection of Paula Vogel's work, surveying a remarkable decade of her writing for the stage. Her singular voice is exhilarating, comic and heartbreaking by turns.
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The Red Letter Plays (US edition)
Two haunting riffs on Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, by a leading American playwright.
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The New American Musical
An Anthology from the End of the 20th Century
Four groundbreaking musicals from the end of the 20th century.
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The Fire This Time
African-American Plays for the 21st Century
A collection of African-American plays for the 21st century.
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The Vermont Plays
The debut collection of celebrated American playwright Annie Baker, including her Obie award-winning play Circle Mirror Transformation.
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The Apple Family
Scenes from Life in the Country
A critically acclaimed play cycle about loss, memory and remembrance in America's recent past.
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The Gabriels
Election Year in the Life of One Family
A trilogy of plays following an American family through the momentous and divisive 2016 presidential election year.
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