Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Full Moon and other plays
Three plays delicately exploring issues of love, faith, family and race.
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A Going Concern
A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.
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Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
By Tony KushnerThe second part of Tony Kushner's acclaimed epic drama set during the Reagan years in America.
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The Skriker
An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.
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The Iceman Cometh
An ominous play set in a cruel world of dark realism, an acknowledged masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
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Dora: A Case of Hysteria
A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.
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My Heart's a Suitcase & Low Level Panic
Two modern feminist classics by a writer who was amongst the extraordinary generation of British female playwrights to emerge in the 1980s.
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Romulus Linney: Six Plays
Six plays from a major talent of the American theatre, endowed with Linney's lyric intensity, and augmented by his rich sense of humour.
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Jelly's Last Jam
The hit Broadway musical based on the life of the jazz great, Jelly Roll Morton.
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Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun
Plays by African-American Women
Edited by Sydné MahoneA collection of plays by African-American women.
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Gypsy
One of the greatest musicals of all time, with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
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The Substance of Fire and other plays
This collection contains Jon Robin Baitz's debut play, The Film Society, alongside two more recent works: The End of the Day and the title play, The Substance of Fire.
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Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues
‘A work of burning anger and bruising emotional power’ about the foisting of powdered milk on Third World infants. Plus seven monologues.
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The Mill on the Floss (stage version)
By George Eliot Adapted by Helen EdmundsonA re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.
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The Clearing
A powerful play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland.
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The Crack in the Emerald
New Irish Plays
Edited by David GrantFour Irish plays from the late 1980s, selected and introduced by David Grant of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
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Low in the Dark
By Marina CarrA witty and absurdist play that dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.
Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
Misogynist
A powerful anatomy of misogyny, by 'one of the most significant new Irish writers of his generation' (Sunday Times).
Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
The Hamster Wheel
By Marie JonesWhen one partner in a marriage becomes unable to look after themselves and is completely dependent on the other, what happens to the relationship between them?
Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
The Lament for Arthur Cleary
Bestselling novelist Dermot Bolger transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin.
Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
The Essential Bogosian
A collection of work by Eric Bogosian, one of America's leading performers and most original playwrights.
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The America Play and other works
A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.
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Berlin Bertie
An intimate and at times savagely funny psychological study of two sisters, one of who has made her home in East Berlin and one who has stayed on in their native London.
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A Bright Room Called Day
By Tony KushnerFrom the author of Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day was Kushner's first major play. Written against the backdrop of Reagan's America, it is a powerful portrayal of individual resolution in the face of political catastrophe.
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