Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays
Three astute, savvy early plays from Belfast writer Owen McCafferty.
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Shining Souls
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.
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Beauty and the Beast (RSC stage version)
A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed in this version by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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£9.99£7.99Almost Nothing & At the Table
Two plays
By Marcos Barbosa Translated by Mark O'ThomasTwo tense and unnerving short plays from talented Brazilian playwright, Marcos Barbosa.
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Take Me Away
A dark but very funny comedy about the collapse of a family of feckless chancers and no-hopers.
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Notes on Falling Leaves
A poignant, elegiac short play from the author of East is East.
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£6.99£5.59Kevin Elyot: Four Plays
By Kevin ElyotA 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.
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£14.99£11.99Port Authority
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.
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£8.99£7.19Mexican Plays
Edited by Elyse DodgsonA unique collection of five surprising and exciting plays from Mexico, in English translations, selected by the Royal Court Theatre, London.
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Mary Barton (stage version)
By Elizabeth Gaskell Adapted by Rona MunroElizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England, adapted for the stage by the author of Iron and The James Plays.
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£9.99£7.99Limbo
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.
Published in volume St Petersburg and other playsCatherine Medbh
A bittersweet and hesitant duologue in a bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers.
Published in volume St Petersburg and other playsAbout a Goth
By Tom WellsA short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.
Published in volume Me, As A PenguinNotes for First Time Astronauts
By Tom WellsA comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.
Published in volume Me, As A PenguinWho is Sylvia?
Rattigan's play about obsessive love, a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.
Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and DuologueDuologue
Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.
Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and DuologueSpacewang
By Tom WellsA monologue play in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens.
Published in volume The Kitchen SinkLeavings
A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.
Published in volume Jez Butterworth Plays: One
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