Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha DugdaleAn extraordinary and disturbing play about post-Communist Russia by a young Siberian-born writer.
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McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.
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An unsettling and unpredictable drama about the love-hate chemistry that endures between friends.
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Flush
By David DipperA brash and sexy short play about death, deceit and poker.
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The Small Things
By Enda WalshA fierce and devastating fable about enforced silence.
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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
By Arne Sierens Adapted by Stephen GreenhornA poignant two-hander about memory, truth and love.
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Julie Burchill Is Away
By Tim FountainA one-woman show based on the life and writings of the provocative columnist, writer and broadcaster, Julie Burchill.
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Forty Winks
By Kevin ElyotA 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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By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène EstienneA provocative study of what it means to be free, by the internationally acclaimed theatre director and his long-time collaborator.
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By Enda WalshWalsh's very first, previously unpublished play, is a Cork cabaret about a ventriloquist who loses control.
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Chatroom
By Enda WalshA chilling, blackly comic tale of manipulation, cyberbullying and adolescent insecurity.
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