Modern Drama

A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.

The second play in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly.

The third in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly.

The first of the three plays that make up Robert Holman's acclaimed dramatic trilogy Making Noise Quietly.

A rite-of-passage play in which a twelve-year-old boy spends the night alone on an island.

A deeply moving tale about what lies beneath the surface of everyday lives.

A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.

A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.

Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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