Modern Drama

A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.

A collection of plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, bearing his hallmark traits of magic realism and expressionism.

Thornton Wilder's short plays, published for the first time in two volumes.

A play exploring the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from another person's life.

A collection of work for the stage that provides a remarkable and penetrating look at the African-American experience over the last 100 years.

A unique assortment of plays, songs and poems for primary school children to read and perform - an ideal resource for teachers and schools looking for creative ways to explore contemporary moral and ethical issues in a fun and stimulating way.

A sharp and perceptive play from Carl Hancock Rux, a multidisciplinary artist born in Harlem, New York, whose trademark craft is to combine poetry, music, theatre and dance.

A poignant and poetic play set in Florida in 1929, inside a Cuban-American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

A real-estate developer sets about trying to redevelop the 'blighted' Hill District of Pittsburgh in the final part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

Two early plays by the cult US playwright, Wallace Shawn.

An updated version of Bogosian's theatrical tour de force.

Two plays by Korean-American theatre practitioner and writer Young Jean Lee, who here 'confirms herself as one of the best experimental playwrights in America' (Timeout New York).

An entertaining comedy-drama set in a local donut shop in the heart of one of Chicago's most diverse communities. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of August: Osage County.

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa.

The first eight astonishing plays by 'one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre'.

Four early plays from the author of The Weir, with a foreword by the author.

The fourth volume of the collected plays of one of the best playwrights alive.

The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author.

Magnetic, nostalgic and gloriously imaginative, a comedy drama from award-winning New York playwright Sarah Ruhl.

A hilarious comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication, exploring the modern difficulty of doing business between East and West.

A deliciously savage family comedy.

The third collection of plays by one of Ireland's most celebrated contemporary playwrights. Contains: Shining City, The Seafarer, The Veil, The Birds and The Dance of Death. With a foreword by the author.

An unsettling and deeply compassionate play from an acclaimed US playwright.

A bold, ambitious, political play about contemporary America - 'a candidate to be the Angels in America of the Bush II decade' (San Francisco Chronicle).