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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Before You Say Anything

A play that questions how everyone can be safe at the same time. A time-travelling set of interweaving stories exploring injustice, freedom and bravery.

Everything Not Saved

A play about memory, happiness, Rasputin, and dancing. And also the Queen. Premiered by MALAPROP Theatre at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017.

Where Sat the Lovers

A play about codes, hallucinations, Isaac Newton, war crimes, seeing meaning where there's none and vice versa. First staged by MALAPROP Theatre at the 2021 Dublin Fringe Festival.

Skyscraper Lullaby

A powerful drama about two parents trying to come to terms with the disappearance of their toddler, written and first performed as an audio drama for Audible Original.

Tuesdays at Tesco's

A touching one-person play about a person's true identity, the first English-language adaptation of Emmanuel Darley's hit play, Le Mardi à Monoprix.

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Plasticine

An extraordinary and disturbing play about post-Communist Russia by a young Siberian-born writer.

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Closing Time

McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.

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Tape

An unsettling and unpredictable drama about the love-hate chemistry that endures between friends.

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Flush

A brash and sexy short play about death, deceit and poker.

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The Small Things

A fierce and devastating fable about enforced silence.

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King of the Fields

A play set in Ayrshire after the First World War, with touches of Ibsen - from the acclaimed Scottish playwright.

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The Ballad of Crazy Paola

A poignant two-hander about memory, truth and love.

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Julie Burchill Is Away

A one-woman show based on the life and writings of the provocative columnist, writer and broadcaster, Julie Burchill.

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Forty Winks

A heart-wrenching drama of anguish and missed opportunities.

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Angels

A suspicious death at the workplace and loner security guard Nick Prentice is hauled in for interrogation. An uproarious underworld whodunit, Ronan O’Donnell’s single-hander reworks the hardboiled crime thriller for our times.

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The Prisoner

A provocative study of what it means to be free, by the internationally acclaimed theatre director and his long-time collaborator.

The Ginger Ale Boy

Walsh's very first, previously unpublished play, is a Cork cabaret about a ventriloquist who loses control.

Chatroom

A chilling, blackly comic tale of manipulation, cyberbullying and adolescent insecurity.