Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
On Insomnia and Midnight
In a mountain hotel an ailing guest and nervous chambermaid strike up an uneasy friendship.
The Sánchez Huerta Girl Killed Herself
After a young girl's suicide, her parents meet for the first time in years at the school where she died.
Seven-Eleven
Cabron (the Bastard) isn't having a good day. His scams aren't going well. Thank god for the Seven-Eleven and its constant supply of hot-dogs.
Little Certainties
Mario is missing, presumed dead. In the town of Tijuana, his brother and sister make a shocking discovery about Mario and his secrets.
Used Blood Junkyard
Làzaro, his mates and his porn-star girlfriend are 'art terrorists'... Can anything stop their killing spree?
Disco Pigs
Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits
Harlequinade
A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.
St Petersburg
A haunting, elliptical play by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.
The Guid Sisters
Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.
Your Turn to Clean the Stair
A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.
Stones in His Pockets
Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.
Poor Beast in the Rain
A slice of small-town life, set in a betting shop in Wexford. Part of Billy Roche's acclaimed Wexford Trilogy.
The Cavalcaders
A rousing, comic play set in an old-fashioned cobbler's shop in small-town southern Ireland.
trade
A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.
generations
A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...
The Waiting List
A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.
I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me
An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.
Miseryguts
A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.