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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Comeback

The Comeback

By Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen

A heartwarming, joyful and dazzlingly funny exploration of bittersweet nostalgia and the enduring power of friendship.

Treasure Island

Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete stage version)

By Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson Original author Robert Louis Stevenson

A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.

First Time

First Time

By Nathaniel Hall

A hilarious and heartbreaking true story that smashes through the stigma and shame of HIV, to present an uplifting and inspirational guide to staying positive in a negative world.

15 Heroines

15 Heroines

15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid

By various

Drawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.

CripTales: Six Monologues

CripTales: Six Monologues

By various Curated by Mat Fraser

Six fictional monologues portraying some very real experiences of disabled people in Britain, commissioned to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

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Thunderbox

Thunderbox

By Genevieve Barr

A short monologue play about a pregnant wheelchair user facing a tough decision, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
    The Shed

    The Shed

    By Matilda Ibini

    A short monologue play exploring the power that a carer can exert over a wheelchair user's life, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

    Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
      Hamish

      Hamish

      By Jack Thorne

      A short monologue play exploring the challenges facing a young wheelchair user, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

      Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
        The Real Deal

        The Real Deal

        By Tom Wentworth

        A short monologue play exploring the issue of benefits fraud, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

        Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
          Three Sisters

          Three Sisters

          By Anton Chekhov Translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

          A masterful new translation of Chekhov’s exploration of yearning and disillusionment.

          Evening Plays

          Evening Plays

          By Richard Maxwell

          Three new dramas, written as a response to Dante's Divine Comedy.

          Exquisite Agony

          Exquisite Agony

          By Nilo Cruz

          A play about the heart—its passions, its failures, and its ability to connect.

          Illyria

          Illyria

          By Richard Nelson

          It is 1958. In the midst of a building boom in New York City, Joe Papp and his colleagues are facing pressure from the city’s elite as they continue their free Shakespeare in Central Park.

          The Language Archive and Other Plays

          The Language Archive and Other Plays

          By Julia Cho

          A new collection of plays by one of the most versatile dramatists in contemporary American theatre.

          The Sound Inside

          The Sound Inside

          By Adam Rapp

          A riveting play exploring the limits of what one person can ask of another.

          Noughts & Crosses

          Noughts & Crosses (Pilot Theatre stage version)

          By Sabrina Mahfouz Original author Malorie Blackman

          An award-winning stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman's acclaimed novel, a captivating drama of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world.

          Three Kings

          Three Kings

          By Stephen Beresford

          A heartbreaking and hilarious play for a solo actor about fathers and sons, the gifts and burdens of inheritance, and the unfathomable puzzle of human relationships. 

          The Last of the Pelican Daughters

          The Last of the Pelican Daughters

          By The Wardrobe Ensemble

          A comedy about four sisters trying to come to terms with their mother's death.

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