Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Mortified
A humorous and dark play exploring sex, shame, and transformation and how we reckon with the traumatic experiences that have shaped us.
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Secret Life of a Mother
An uplifting and empowering play that reveals the raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering.
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WROL (Without Rule of Law)
A darkly comic coming-of-age drama from an exciting Canadian playwright.
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Bluebirds
A play about three nurses treating wounded Canadian soldiers in France in 1918.
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Duecentomila
A touching play about two teenagers exploring their queer identities.
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Yaga
A genre-bending comedy thriller that explores the legend of the wicked witch Baba Yaga through the lens of a modern-day whodunit.
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Corsicana & Evanston Salt Costs Climbing: two plays
Two plays by acclaimed American playwright Will Arbery, exploring communities of outsiders who strive to help one another in the face of despair.
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English & Wish You Were Here: two plays
Two plays exploring the emotional toll of migration, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, from an Iranian-American playwright.
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Never Swim Alone & This Is A Play
Two plays
Two plays from the Toronto-based writer-director-performer.
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Cold Meat Party
A play about a group of former friends reuniting in a B&B for a funeral.
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What I Meant Was
A major collection from one of the most popular gay playwrights in America.
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Bad Boy Nietzsche! and other plays
This new anthology collects plays written and performed over six years, including Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty!, Maria del Bosco, Panic! (How to Be Happy!), Bad Boy Nietzsche!, Bad Behavior and King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe!
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Two Sisters and a Piano and other plays
Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban-American playwright in the US and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize.
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Intimate Apparel & Fabulation: Two Plays
Two companion pieces spanning 100 years in the lives of African American women.
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365 Days/365 Plays
A unique, year-long play cycle from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Topdog/Underdog. This collection of 365 impeccably crafted pieces, each with its own distinctive characters and dramatic power, is a complete work by an artist responding to her world, each and every day.
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Loving Longing Leaving
Three Plays by Michael Weller
With stark truth and piercing detail, Loving, Longing, Leaving, a marriage trilogy, takes us through the lives of three intersecting couples immersed in three distinct stages of love. Michael Weller is also the author of Moonchildren and Loose Ends.
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Undesirable Elements
Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater
A collection celebrating twenty years of Undesirable Elements, the series of community-specific theatre works that examines the lives of people living cultures, either by choice or circumstance.
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We're Gonna Die
A life-affirming, humorous show of songs and monologues drawing on real-life experiences, about the one thing we all have in common: we're gonna die. Audio CD included.
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The Last Wife
A contemporary retelling of the compelling relationship between Katherine Parr and Henry VIII, the first part of Kate Hennig's Queenmaker Trilogy.
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Marie Antoinette & 3C: Two Plays
Two plays from the 'virtuosic' US playwright David Adjmi (New York Times).
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Paradise Lost
A wickedly smart and funny feminist retelling of John Milton's epic poem about the first battle between good and evil, by a leading Canadian playwright.
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Concord Floral
The Decameron meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in a supernatural thriller of suburban teenagers fleeing a mysterious plague, from an award-winning Canadian playwright.
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Mother's Daughter
The stunning third part of Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker Trilogy, retelling the stories of three Tudor queens of England, in contemporary settings.
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The Virgin Trial
The second part of Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker Trilogy, retelling the stories of three Tudor queens of England, in contemporary settings.
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