Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Doubt
The hit Broadway play, filmed in 2008 with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Rodney's Wife
A study in dissolution by a leading American playwright who has written prolifically, and with fine detail, on the perplexities of everyday living.
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Plays From the Boom Box Galaxy
An anthology of performance texts from the hip-hop generation.
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Dead Man's Cell Phone
A play about a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
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Salaam. Peace: An Anthology of Middle Eastern-American Drama
A groundbreaking anthology containing a collection of new plays by American writers of a variety of Middle Eastern backgrounds, from artists born in Egypt and Iran, to Israeli- and Palestinian-Americans.
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Eurydice
Alice in Wonderland meets Greek myth in this playful, heart-breaking American take on a timeless tale of loss, grief and redemption.
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A Civil War Christmas
Set on Christmas Eve during the latter days of the Civil War, this rich and moving play weaves a tapestry of historical characters, period holiday music, marches and spirituals, and tells a story of peaceful companionship and communal hope.
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Water by the Spoonful
A Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, community and uncertainty.
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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
A hilarious satire of race in the glamorous days of Old Hollywood, told via the life of a fictional African-American movie star. From the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Sex Plays
Two plays by one of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Talk Radio.
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Enda Walsh Plays: Two
The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, including The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, Penelope, Ballyturk and two short plays, with a Foreword by the author.
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£19.99£15.99Add to basketEbook£19.99£15.99The Whale and A Bright New Boise: two plays
Two plays from an American playwright whose bighearted and funny plays explore the quiet desperation running through many American lives. The Whale was later adapted into the 2022 feature film directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Brendan Fraser.
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Intimacy and other plays
Outrageous and bold, Thomas Bradshaw’s Intimacy is a revealing comedy about race, sex, and familiarity in the suburbs.
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The James Plays
James I, II and III
By Rona MunroRona Munro's vividly imagined historical cycle brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century.
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£19.99£15.99Add to basketEbook£19.99£15.99Neva
English/Spanish billingual edition
By Guillermo Calderón Translated by Andrea ThorneA politically charged, haunting interrogation of theatre and the revolutionary impulse.
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Prodigal Son
An explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of either salvation or destruction, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt.
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Lucy Kirkwood Plays: One
Five plays by leading playwright Lucy Kirkwood: Tinderbox, it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now, small hours, NSFW and Chimerica. With an introduction by the author.
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£19.99£15.99Add to basketEbook£19.99£15.99Indecent
By Paula VogelInspired by Sholem Asch's play God of Vengeance, about an amorous affair between two women, Paula Vogel's Indecent is a riveting look at an explosive moment in theatrical history.
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