Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Other Worlds
A gorilla is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community on the isolated North Yorkshire coast, in a play that explores fears of the unknown.
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Today
From a Cambridge college to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self in the midst of a shifting, uncertain world.
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The Overgrown Path
An aspiring academic arrives on a Greek island to interview a reclusive scientist, in a play about history and the stories we tell each other to make sense of ourselves.
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Something Awful
A thrilling play inspired by the true-crime story of the Slenderman.
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Second Home
A play exploring the experiences of growing up mixed-race in twenty-first century Ireland.
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Madame Ovary
The heartbreaking and hilarious true story of the author's own experience of ovarian cancer.
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Take Care
An astonishing, tragic and uplifting verbatim play about the care system in the UK today.
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Heroes
A poignant exploration of fallen idols, family secrets and the human price of forgiveness.
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Fanboy
A five-star hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Fanboy is a love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia, about a thirty-something, self-confessed nerd obsessed with Star Wars and Nintendo.
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Five Years with the White Man
A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.
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Honour-Bound
A powerful solo show about family, anti-Blackness, and what we're willing to sacrifice for love.
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How We Begin
A tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, staged at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.
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Bé Carna
A short play in which five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin.
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Bogboy
A short play in which two lost souls – a young heroin addict and a reclusive middle-aged farmer – discover a budding friendship in the bogs of Meath.
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Hue & Cry
A short play in which two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.
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An Old Song, Half Forgotten
A short play about the life and soul of an older actor living in care with Alzheimer's disease.
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Wild Notes
A play exploring the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country he's running from.
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