Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Small Tragedy
A remarkably funny, sharply articulated missive about tragedy in the contemporary world.
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Pipeline
A deeply moving story of a mother's fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.
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The Sound Inside
A riveting play exploring the limits of what one person can ask of another.
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Linda Vista
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts dissects the midlife crisis in a play that combines humanity with humour.
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What the Constitution Means to Me
An acclaimed play tracing the effect that the US Constitution has had on four generations of women in the author's family. A finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Mlima's Tale (US edition)
A powerful and unforgettable drama about the illegal international ivory trade, from an American dramatist whose plays have captivated audiences around the world.
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Mike Bartlett Plays: Two
Five ambitious and exciting plays by the multi-award-winning playwright, introduced by the author.
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£19.99£15.99Add to basketEbook£19.99£15.99Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
By Taylor MacPerformance artist Taylor Mac picks up where William Shakespeare's blood-soaked tragedy Titus Andronicus left off in a play that explores generic boundaries and charts the violence done by those in charge, and the lives of those left to clean up.
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Trouble in Mind
A radical satire of racism in theatre, widely considered the masterpiece of actress and playwright Alice Childress.
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James Fritz Plays: One
By James FritzSix plays from a unique voice in British theatre, covering the first decade of his career. These plays confront the fault lines in our culture with thrilling imagination, an unflinching moral seriousness and a warm, compassionate sense of humour.
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£19.99£15.99Add to basketEbook£19.99£15.99Chris Bush Plays: One
By Chris BushFive plays by leading playwright Chris Bush: Steel; Faustus: That Damned Woman; Nine Lessons and Carols; Hungry (Paines Plough, 2021) and Not the End of the World (Schaubühne, Berlin, 2021).
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£19.99£15.99Add to basketEbook£19.99£15.99The Adventures of a Young Black Girl in Search of God
By Djanet SearsRainey Baldwin-Jackson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintegration of her marriage, and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.
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Romulus Linney: Six Plays
Six plays from a major talent of the American theatre, endowed with Linney's lyric intensity, and augmented by his rich sense of humour.
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Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater
Includes essays and playscripts: The Cure, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, Symphony of Rats, What Did He See? and Lava, with a Foreword by Peter Sellars
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A Bright Room Called Day
By Tony KushnerFrom the author of Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day was Kushner's first major play. Written against the backdrop of Reagan's America, it is a powerful portrayal of individual resolution in the face of political catastrophe.
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Passion
By Stephen Sondheim and James LapineA one-act musical about a sickly woman's love for a handsome young army captain.
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The America Play and other works
A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.
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Marisol and other plays
By José RiveraA collection of plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, bearing his hallmark traits of magic realism and expressionism.
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