Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
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A play about modern-day sex trafficking, joint winner of the 2010 John Whiting Award.
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By Linda McLeanA sharply perceptive, darkly funny riff on urban isolation by one of Scotland's leading playwrights.
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An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.
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By Simon GrayA funny yet melancholic look at the frustrations, secrets and guilt of middle-class respectability in 1950s England.
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By Jane Austen Adapted by Mark HealyA faithful yet inventive adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, with a set of Production Notes designed to make it easily stageable.
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Through A Glass Darkly (stage version)
By Ingmar Bergman Adapted by Jenny WortonA poignant and sensuous stage adaptation of the 1961 Oscar-winning film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
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While You Lie
By Sam HolcroftA blistering play about our need for honesty in relationships and how it can sometimes bring about their downfall.
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Ecstasy
By Mike LeighA play about loneliness, togetherness, longing, warmth and love.
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Little Eagles
By Rona MunroA play telling the fascinating and little-known story of Sergei Korolyov, chief designer and unsung hero of the Soviet space programme.
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By Steve WatersMoving from satiric comedy to poignant family drama, Little Platoons explores what the retreat of the state and the growth of people power really means for society and its youngest citizens.
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Rattigan's Nijinsky
By Nicholas Wright and Terence RattiganThe extraordinary story of the relationship between the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, drawing on an unproduced screenplay by Terence Rattigan.
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The God of Soho
By Chris HannanA hectic and hilarious morality tale for the modern world.
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Clybourne Park
By Bruce NorrisAn acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property.
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By Rona MunroA romantic-comedy-thriller about the heat of love and the magic of changing perspectives.
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A beautifully crafted play from the American playwright, author of Tape and associate writer of The Laramie Project, whose events are echoed in this play.
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The Veil
Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, The Veil weaves Ireland’s troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time.
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A gloriously funny play about the nature of comedy, the operation of censorship, and the complex misunderstandings implicit in the Anglo-American relationship.
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The Last of the Duchess
A compelling study of the corruption of fame, the lure of money and the betrayal that lurks at the heart of portraying the people around us, or the people we love. Based on Caroline Blackwood's book of the same name.
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