Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Adventures of a Young Black Girl in Search of God
Rainey Baldwin-Jackson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintegration of her marriage, and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.
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After Life
A surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live – and to die.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79After Mrs Rochester
By Polly TealeA dramatisation of the extraordinary life of Jean Rhys, in which themes of femininity, literature and hysteria and madness collide with vivid force.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39The After-Dinner Joke
A short play satirising the charity business, written for television. First broadcast on BBC One as part of the BBC's Play for Today series.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: ShortsAgain
A touching and comic drama about a family reunion, delving into the turmoil, love and compromises of kinship.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Age is a Feeling
By Haley McGeeA gripping one-person play that wrestles with the glorious and melancholy uncertainties of human life, from the author of The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays
Three solo plays exploring the lives of three queer youths and their resilience in the face of violence and intolerance. Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.
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Air
A resonant and surreal short piece published alongside What If If Only.
Published in volume What If If OnlyAirsick
By Emma FrostA turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£8.99£7.19Albert Speer
By David EdgarA panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Albertine in Five Times
A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.
Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other playsAlbion
Mike Bartlett's outstanding play, set in the ruins of a garden in rural England.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Alcatraz
A thrilling play about family and social care that follows 11-year-old Sandy on her daring, Christmas mission to emulate Clint Eastwood and bust her gran out of lock-up.
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Alexi Kaye Campbell Plays: One
A collection of five plays by Alexi Kaye Campbell: The Pride, Apologia, The Faith Machine, Bracken Moor and Sunset at the Villa Thalia.
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£18.99£15.19Add to basketEbook£18.99£15.19All honey
A play about sex, secrets and suspicion, winner of the 2017 Fishamble New Writing Award.
Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two PlaysAll Mouth
By Jonathan Lewis and Miranda FosterA biting comedy set in the hidden world of the voice-over artist.
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All of Us
A passionate and timely drama that looks at the human cost of abandoning those who struggle to fit in.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39All On Her Own
A powerfully atmospheric one-woman play, All On Her Own tells the story of Rosemary who, alone at midnight in London, has a secret burden to share that is both heartbreaking and sinister.
Published in volume Harlequinade & All On Her Own
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