Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Winterlong

A shattering and heartbreaking play, joint winner of the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.

Joseph K

By Tom Basden Original author Franz Kafka

A darkly comic stage adaptation of The Trial, relocating Kafka's classic novel to twenty-first-century London.

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Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

Two plays from one of the leading dramatists of the 20th century.

Precious Little Talent & Hot Mess

Two plays by award-winning playwright Ella Hickson.

Perve

An irreverent and unsettling play that interrogates paranoia, ambiguity and innocence in our highly sexualised world.

Anna Karenina (stage version)

Helen Edmundson's celebrated adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's enduring classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love.

Invisible

A funny, moving and topical portrayal of the world in flux, Invisible explores the many sides of migration.

Edgar: Shorts

A collection of shorter plays from stage and television by one of the UK's foremost political playwrights.

Sunday in the Park with George

The Pulitzer-winning musical inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, celebrating the art of creation and the creation of art.

Sweeney Todd

The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.

The Guid Sisters and other plays

Three plays from the renowned Quebecois writer.

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The Mill on the Floss (stage version)

A re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (stage version)

A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.

Widows

A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America.

Perfect Days

A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.

Cressida

A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

Arabian Nights (Young Vic stage version)

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

In Praise of Love

An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer.