Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Day I Stood Still
A poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg, about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories.
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Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own
Two plays from playwright Gary Mitchell, known for his powerful explorations of the conflicts troubling Northern Ireland.
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Tearing the Loom
A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.
Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own
In a Little World of Our Own
A powerful drama about how the conflict in Northern Ireland affects whole families, and of how the violence of the streets is brought into the heart of the home.
Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own
Jane Eyre (Shared Experience stage version)
By Charlotte Brontë Adapted by Polly TealeA bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage.
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Passing Places
A road movie for the stage, following two young Scottish lads on their trip from dislocation to location.
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The Resistance Trilogy
Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by the author.
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Bad Weather
A play about freedom, guilt and the possibility of redemption, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Mizlansky/Zilinsky
A play about the desperate cases lurking unsuccessfully on the fringes of the movie world.
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Quiet in the Land
Set in and around an Amish Community in the Autumn of 1917.
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A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural
By Tony Kushner and Joachim NeugroschelThe classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, and Joachim Neugroschel.
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Notes from Underground
Two of cult American performer Eric Bogosian's most unsettling works: Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World.
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Love Upon the Throne
A gleefully comic retelling of the Charles and Diana story, designed to be performed by two (male) actors.
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Michael Weller: Five Plays
A collection of plays from the American writer whose screenplays include Hair and Ragtime.
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The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume II
Thornton Wilder's short plays, published for the first time in two volumes.
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Collected Stories
A play exploring the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from another person's life.
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What I Meant Was
By Craig LucasA major collection from one of the most popular gay playwrights in America.
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Insurrection: Holding History
An African-American graduate student is transported back through time, with his 189-year-old grandfather, to Nat Turner's infamous slave rebellion.
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Howie the Rookie
By Mark O'RoweA white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable.
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Perfect Days
By Liz LochheadA funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.
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Family: three plays
A triptych of short plays on the theme of family from three generations of Scottish writers.
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Acts
A short play about an old couple whose son returns after years of absence.
Published in volume Family: three plays
The Visitor
A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.
Published in volume Family: three plays
The Monument
A powerful play exploring the ambiguities of morality and justice in a time of war when a young soldier is convicted of war crimes.
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