Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Maths Tutor
A wry and incisive play exposing how our desire for a normal family life and our fears about adults, young people and sex, can sometimes outride the truth.
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£9.99£7.99Miseryguts
By Liz Lochhead Original author MolièreA Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.
Published in volume Miseryguts & TartuffeA Bed of Roses
An acerbic and funny play about middle-class hypocrisy and universal apathy.
Published in volume Inventing the Truth: Devising and Directing for the TheatreThe Lament for Arthur Cleary
Bestselling novelist Dermot Bolger transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin.
Published in volume The Crack in the EmeraldAlmost Nothing
By Marcos Barbosa Translated by Mark O'ThomasAn unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.
Published in volume Almost Nothing & At the TableAt the Table
By Marcos Barbosa Translated by Mark O'ThomasAn unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.
Published in volume Almost Nothing & At the TableOn the Beach
By Steve WatersPart of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
Published in volume The Contingency PlanResilience
By Steve WatersPart of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
Published in volume The Contingency PlanStunning and other plays
By David AdjmiThe first collection by a striking new voice in American theatre.
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The Color of Desire & Hurricane: two plays
By Nilo CruzTwo plays by the acclaimed Cuban-American writer.
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Havana is Waiting and other plays
Eduardo Machado’s Havana is Waiting and other plays examines the intersection of the personal and the political on a generation of immigrants. With humor and passion, the author pursues his lifelong exploration of the Cuban-American experience.
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Morte d'Arthur (stage version)
By Thomas Malory Adapted by Mike PoultonAn adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of Sir Thomas Malory's classic telling of the Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
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Liz Lochhead: Five Plays
By Liz LochheadFive plays from the the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the country's best-known - and best-loved - living playwrights.
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£14.99£11.99What Love Is
By Linda McLeanA short play about caring for your parents.
Published in volume Sex & GodWater by the Spoonful
A Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, community and uncertainty.
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When Cows Go Boom
By Stacey GreggA short play by Stacey Gregg, an oblique parable of love set against the backdrop of a horrific landscape.
Published in volume Irish ShortsLove in a Glass Jar
By Nancy HarrisA short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.
Published in volume Irish Shorts
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