Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Cling To Me Like Ivy
A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.
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A play about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships.
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By Drew PautzA tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.
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Arthur & George (stage version)
By Julian Barnes Adapted by David EdgarThe gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective.
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By Hywel JohnA modern fable of an idyllic childhood shattered by grief, and the confused, desperate and dangerous attempts we make to learn how to live again.
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La Bête
By David HirsonAn exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art.
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Penelope
By Enda WalshA savage, tragicomic take on the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus.
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By Brett NeveuA play exploring the creeping onset of middle age in a group of people increasingly disillusioned by the American Dream.
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A sparky play from the winner of the Irish Times Best New Play Award and the Stewart Parker Trust Award (for Noah and the Tower Flower).
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First Person Shooter
By Paul JenkinsA funny and foreboding play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide.
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The Price of Everything
By Fiona EvansA tense and gripping drama, loaded with dark humour, about the price we pay for material possessions and the effect it has on those we love.
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Home Death
By Nell DunnInspired by real-life stories, Home Death is a courageous, compassionate play about how our society deals with the reality of dying, raising urgent questions about palliative care in the UK.
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Grace
By Doug LucieA far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.
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A Going Concern
A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.
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A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.
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Reader
A compulsive, gripping and intense play from the author of Death and the Maiden.
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Bad Weather
A play about freedom, guilt and the possibility of redemption, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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The Thickness of Skin
An intricate, tender play about the obligations we have to one another, and those we would rather not.
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