Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Passion
A one-act musical about a sickly woman's love for a handsome young army captain.
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Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead
Scorching social commentary aimed at the contemporary urban and suburban scene, from one of America's greatest standups.
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Pentecost
A valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. Part of David Edgar's trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe.
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Your Turn to Clean the Stair
By Rona MunroA comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
By Rona MunroTwo plays, from the award-winning author Rona Munro.
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Fugue
By Rona MunroA psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
The Maiden Stone
By Rona MunroA wild and fantastical tale about a group of women struggling to get by in the harsh world of north-east Scotland in the early nineteenth century.
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Tales of the Lost Formicans and other plays
Four plays from one of America's finest playwrights, endowed with compassion, keen insight and an unfailing comic sensibility.
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Reader
A compulsive, gripping and intense play from the author of Death and the Maiden.
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A Little Night Music
By Stephen Sondheim and Hugh WheelerAn utterly sophisticated and charming musical boasting such numbers as 'Send in the Clowns' and 'A Weekend in the Country'.
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Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (incl. Slavs!)
By Tony KushnerA collection of essays, poems, a prayer and a play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
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The Shakespeare Revue
An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Raised in Captivity
By Nicky SilverThe story of two siblings reunited at their mother's funeral.
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Into the Woods
By Stephen Sondheim and James LapineA modern musical twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
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Waiting Room Germany
By Klaus Pohl Translated by David TushinghamA raw and honest verbatim-theatre play about post-reunification Germany, commissioned in 1994 by Der Spiegel to test the mood of the new Germany.
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Stanley
By Pam GemsA brilliant and painfully truthful portrait of Stanley Spencer, the wayward genius of modern British painting.
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The Thickness of Skin
An intricate, tender play about the obligations we have to one another, and those we would rather not.
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According to Hoyle
A comedy drama about male friendship in which five old friends meet for a traditional evening of poker.
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Death and the Maiden
A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.
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Company (US edition)
By Stephen Sondheim and George FurthStephen Sondheim and George Furth's iconic musical comedy about life, love and marriage.
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The Baltimore Waltz and other plays
By Paula VogelA collection of Paula Vogel's work, surveying a remarkable decade of her writing for the stage. Her singular voice is exhilarating, comic and heartbreaking by turns.
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Smelling a Rat
By Mike LeighA black comedy/farce from the author of Abigail's Party, premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1988.
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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
The full text of cult performer Eric Bogosian's solo show, attacking the dark underbelly of the American dream with blistering accuracy.
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