Modern Drama

A play about a small rural community that dares to stand up to Stalin as he launches the first of his Five-Year Plans.

A semi-mythological examination of nature, animals, men, and women. Strange dinners, strange parties - sources of death and life.

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.

A play about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships.

A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.

The gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective.

A modern fable of an idyllic childhood shattered by grief, and the confused, desperate and dangerous attempts we make to learn how to live again.

An exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art.

A savage, tragicomic take on the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus.

A play exploring the creeping onset of middle age in a group of people increasingly disillusioned by the American Dream.

A sparky play from the winner of the Irish Times Best New Play Award and the Stewart Parker Trust Award (for Noah and the Tower Flower).

A funny and foreboding play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide.

A tense and gripping drama, loaded with dark humour, about the price we pay for material possessions and the effect it has on those we love.

Inspired by real-life stories, Home Death is a courageous, compassionate play about how our society deals with the reality of dying, raising urgent questions about palliative care in the UK.

A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.

A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.

A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.