Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Last Letters Home
A short monologue play for a female performer.
Circle Mirror Transformation
A quiet masterpiece tracing the lives of five strangers who come together in a community centre in Vermont, New England, for a series of creative drama classes for adults.
PMQ
A short play set in a Westminster dressing room, as Prime Minister Dave prepares for his first ever bout of Prime Minister's Questions.
Wilderness (short play)
A short play about a patient and her psychiatrist as they head into the wilderness to find out how sane any of us really are.
Three
A short play about three young Israelis caught up in a hostage situation.
Distant Early Warning
A short play set in 2053 in what was once Greenland.
War and Peace Gaza Piece
A short play about war and family life.
Tickets are Now On Sale
A short play about sponsorship and the arts.
Beautiful Eyes
A short play about a family divided by politics, first performed in the week of Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017.
Isolated But Open
Voices from Across The Shutdown
Twelve new monologues written in response to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 as part of Papatango's scheme to inspire creativity and share brilliant new stories.
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Burgerz
A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.
40 Days
A play exploring the impact of state violence on Black and brown children.
Medicine
A dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.
The Same
A play about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.
The Mirror and the Light (stage version)
The final part of Hilary Mantel's hugely acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy, adapted by the author with the actor Ben Miles and staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Air
A resonant and surreal short piece published alongside What If If Only.
Some Of Us Exist In The Future
An utterly original, wryly funny play about one woman's search for a place to belong in a world that's not all it seems. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
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