Modern Drama

Three astute, savvy early plays from Belfast writer Owen McCafferty.

A riotously funny comedy with a gallery of unforgettable characters, published here in a revised version alongside its revival at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2003.

A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed in this version by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Two tense and unnerving short plays from talented Brazilian playwright, Marcos Barbosa.

A dark but very funny comedy about the collapse of a family of feckless chancers and no-hopers.

A poignant, elegiac short play from the author of East is East.

A collection of plays from the acclaimed author of My Night With Reg, spanning twenty years of work from a playwright who brilliantly captured the comedy of pain.

A wry, moving, funny tale of how modern man faces up to the responsibility of love, woven in monologues, from the multi-award winning author of The Weir.

A unique collection of five surprising and exciting plays from Mexico, in English translations, selected by the Royal Court Theatre, London.

Elizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England, adapted for the stage by the author of Iron and The James Plays.

A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.

A bittersweet and hesitant duologue in a bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers.

A short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.

A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.

Rattigan's play about obsessive love, a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.

Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.

A monologue play in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens.

A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.