Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Other Side of the Game
A debut play by a Canadian playwright, giving voices to Black women who organise communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and do battle with institutions. Winner of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award.
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Unholy
A play about the intersetion of faith and misogyny, asking if you can be a feminist as well as a believer.
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Selfie
A smart and intense play from an award-winning Canadian playwright, about the complexities of relationships and community, and the nature of consent.
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The Children's Republic
A powerful play about Dr Janusz Korczak and his struggle to protect the children at his orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto from the horrors of the Second World War.
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Fat Ham
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' play reinvents Shakespeare's Hamlet in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.
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Kimberly Akimbo
The hearwarming, Tony Award-winning musical about a young girl with a genetic condition that leaves her prematurely aged.
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Becky Nurse of Salem
A wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials, from one of America's foremost playwrights.
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Suffs
An epic musical about the unsung trailblazers of the American women's suffrage movement. Winner of the 2024 Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.
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Lion in the Streets
The spirit of a girl who was killed in tragic circumstances delves into the secret lives of her neighbours as she searches for her killer.
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Habitat
Janet and her mother Margaret both live on Mapleview Lanes - the perfect neighbourhood with the perfect neighbours, until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open a group home for troubled adolescents.
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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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The Mammary Plays
How I Learned to Drive & The Mineola Twins
Two plays by a leading American dramatist, which together provide mirror-image investigations of coming of age in the sixties.
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Out of the Fringe
Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre & Performance
An anthology featuring ten of the most influential and prolific Latino theatre artists of recent years.
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The Mystery of Irma Vep and other plays
Five exotic plays from the famous Ridiculous Theatre of New York.
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Luna Park: short plays and monologues
A collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, featuring three decades' worth of short plays, one-acts and monologues.
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Humpty Dumpty and other plays
Three plays from one of the most singular and exhilarating commentators on American life.
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Dirty Story and other plays
Three plays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Doubt.
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Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays
A collection of plays from the experimental writer-director Young Jean Lee.
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Liars, Thieves and Other Sinners on the Bench
A uniquely American writer and performer, Carson has spent fifteen years working with peoples' stories in communities across America, crafting more than thirty plays from the oral histories she has collected.
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Oh, Wild West!
In this trio of plays, Culture Clash rewrites California’s past in the performance troupe’s own irreverent comic style, interweaving pop culture with their home state’s local history. Includes plays: Chavez Ravine, Water & Power and Zorro in Hell.
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Shakespeare's Will
Vern Thiessen, winner of the Governor General's Award for his play Einstein's Gift, gives a voice to one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.
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Boleros for the Disenchanted and other plays
Four new plays that interweave love and politics, from the screenwriter of The Motorcycle Diaries.
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East/West Quartet
Four plays - spanning a decade - from the leading Chinese-American playwright.
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Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando
Adaptations of two classic works through the unique lens of playwright Sarah Ruhl.
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