Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Stacy
A darkly confessional monologue for one male performer and a slide projector.
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The Aspidistra Code
A sinister but comic drama of honour and violence, from the award-winning author of Howie the Rookie.
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The Play About Calais
A short play based on the author's own visit to the 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais and the people he met along the way.
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Tumulus
A chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath.
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Burkas and Bacon Butties
A heart-warming, clash-of-cultures comedy set in a Wigan taxi.
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Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her
An enthralling monologue about love and loss.
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Drip Feed
An infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.
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The Half Of It
A darkly lyrical monologue about a life, lived unseen. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award in 2018.
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Thrown
A child-psychologist attempts to record what she's spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.
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Open
A frank, refreshing romance that draws on interviews, conversation and private correspondence to explore the authors' real-life open marriage.
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Inside Voices
A blend of dark comedy and magic realism in a subversive portrayal of three Singaporean Muslim women challenging the bounds of freedom, feminism and faith in a place that isn't home.
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Alcatraz
A thrilling play about family and social care that follows 11-year-old Sandy on her daring, Christmas mission to emulate Clint Eastwood and bust her gran out of lock-up.
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3 Billion Seconds
A hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life.
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JERICHO
An off-kilter, high-energy, form-pushing play about what pro-wrestling and politics have in common.
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The Natural Cause
A dark and disturbing portrait of mental illness, and its effects on a young family.
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Mud
A group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors, in Robert Holman's first full-length play.
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