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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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misterman (2001 edition)

A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.

    Tartuffe

    By Molière Adapted by Liz Lochhead

    A rollicking Scots version of Molière's classic of political satire and black comedy.

    Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

      Mongoose

      A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.

      Published in volume Singular Male Voices

        Cold Comfort

        A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

        Published in volume Singular Male Voices

          Brazil

          A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.

          Published in volume Singular Male Voices

            Jordan

            A short play that tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy, Jordan, rather than have him taken away by his abusive father.

            Published in volume Singular Female Voices

              The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

              The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

              Published in volume Singular Female Voices

                Unsuspecting Susan

                A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.

                Published in volume Singular Female Voices

                  On Insomnia and Midnight

                  By Edgar Chías Translated by David Johnston

                  In a mountain hotel an ailing guest and nervous chambermaid strike up an uneasy friendship.

                  Published in volume Mexican Plays

                    The Sánchez Huerta Girl Killed Herself

                    By Claudia Ríos Translated by Roxana Silbert

                    After a young girl's suicide, her parents meet for the first time in years at the school where she died.

                    Published in volume Mexican Plays

                      Seven-Eleven

                      Cabron (the Bastard) isn't having a good day. His scams aren't going well. Thank god for the Seven-Eleven and its constant supply of hot-dogs.

                      Published in volume Mexican Plays

                        Little Certainties

                        Mario is missing, presumed dead. In the town of Tijuana, his brother and sister make a shocking discovery about Mario and his secrets.

                        Published in volume Mexican Plays

                          Used Blood Junkyard

                          Làzaro, his mates and his porn-star girlfriend are 'art terrorists'... Can anything stop their killing spree?

                          Published in volume Mexican Plays

                            Disco Pigs

                            Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits

                            Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

                              Harlequinade

                              A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.

                              Published in volume The Browning Version

                                St Petersburg

                                A haunting, elliptical play by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.

                                Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays

                                  The Guid Sisters

                                  Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

                                    Your Turn to Clean the Stair

                                    A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.