Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Latin American Plays
New Drama from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru
An essential introduction to the fascinating but largely unexplored theatre of Latin America, featuring new translations of five contemporary plays written by some the region's most exciting writers.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (stage version)
By Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by David EdgarA superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.
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Drinks Before Dinner
A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.
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Ballad of Yachiyo
A dramatic tale of a young Japanese girl's sexual awakening, and ultimate social downfall, in Hawaii's harsh sugar-cane plantation system of the early twentieth century.
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Etiquette and Vitriol: The Food Chain and other plays
By Nicky SilverA collection of plays from one of the leading comic voices of his generation, full of his characteristic razor-sharp wit and black humour.
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Widows
By Ariel Dorfman and Tony KushnerA smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America.
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East is East
A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.
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Nuremberg
A gripping verbatim drama using only the actual words spoken in court during the 1946 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial.
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Hotel
An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough.
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Testimonies: Four Plays
By Emily MannFour significant plays from a writer whose choice of 'uncomfortable' but well-documented subjects has gained her a reputation for controversy.
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Sleep Deprivation Chamber
By Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne KennedyA gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience of twentieth-century America.
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A Fair Country
A play in the tradition of Arthur Miller: an impassioned exploration of the impact of politics on an American family.
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Getting Away With Murder
By Stephen Sondheim and George FurthA compellingly original comedy thriller, and Sondheim's first ever non-musical play.
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Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this is the third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays,
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A Mouthful of Birds
By Caryl Churchill and David LanA collaborative piece written with David Lan, combining words and dance. Inspired by Euripides' Bacchae, the play explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves'.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
Anna Weiss
By Mike CullenAn explosive, gripping and disturbing play about the phenomenon of False Memory Syndrome.
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Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin
By Enda WalshThe award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists - plus his short play, Sucking Dublin.
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Sucking Dublin
By Enda WalshA fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.
Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin
Disco Pigs
By Enda WalshEnda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits
Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin
Venus
A bold exploration of colonisation and objectification, based on the true story of the 'Hottentot Venus'.
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Marisol and other plays
By José RiveraA collection of plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, bearing his hallmark traits of magic realism and expressionism.
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Possible Worlds
By John MightonTwo lovers experience a baffling series of relationships together, each one just slightly and tantalizingly different.
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The Mammary Plays
How I Learned to Drive & The Mineola Twins
By Paula VogelTwo plays by a leading American dramatist, which together provide mirror-image investigations of coming of age in the sixties.
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The Mineola Twins
By Paula VogelAn outrageously satirical play examining women's experience and the women's movement over more than three decades in post-World War II America.
Published in volume The Mammary Plays