Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Dublin Carol
A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.
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The Drawer Boy
A multi-award winning, bitter-sweet tale of the power of storytelling, friendship, and the very thin line between truth and fiction.
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Flyin' West and Other Plays
By Pearl CleageA collection of work for the stage that provides a remarkable and penetrating look at the African-American experience over the last 100 years.
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A Place at the Table
By Simon BlockA play about the dog-eat-dog world of television.
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Wit
A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love.
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Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
A rich selection of work by leading playwright Nicholas Wright, introduced by the playwright.
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Treetops
A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
One Fine Day
A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
The Custom of the Country
Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
Cressida
A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.
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Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer
A bold, quirky play from the renowned Quebecois writer, translated into a robust and earthy Scots.
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Mr Kolpert
By David Gieselmann Translated by David TushinghamA delightfully morbid black comedy with a nod to Hitchcock's Rope.
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Albert Speer
By David EdgarA panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.
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Kes (stage version)
By Barry Hines Adapted by Lawrence TillA tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel.
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Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays
By Marie JonesTwo plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, and an earlier monologue A Night in November.
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A Night in November
By Marie JonesThe multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.
Published in volume Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays
Stones in His Pockets
By Marie JonesHollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.
Published in volume Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays
The Good Samaritan
By David HaigA provocative drama about good intentions going awry, from the well-known stage and screen actor.
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Abandonment
A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist.
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Under the Blue Sky
A triptych of love stories in a play about unrequited affection, obsession, sex, and the possibility of being happy.
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So Long Life
A comedy drama portraying a ghastly family gathering with great humour and unflinching honesty.
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Perfect Pie
A potent drama set over the course of a single afternoon. A reunion between two long-estranged women brings to light a buried memory and two teenagers' wild secret.
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Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays
By Tony KushnerA wide-ranging collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
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