Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
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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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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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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