Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Love in a Glass Jar
A short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.
Meeting Miss Ireland
A short play commissioned and performed as part of The Fairer Sex, a series of play readings at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in June 2009.
Salad Day
A short play about an elderly couple who, trapped in a nursing home, plot a daring escape into the sunshine.
Nineteen Ninety-Two
A short play about two brothers biding their time to savour revenge - but how can they be sure they've got the right girl?
Investment Potential
A short play about a youthful couple who can't seem to pull themselves up the rungs of the property ladder.
Ribbons
A short play about a parent and child who have been concealing their true identities.
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
A forensic insight into the adjustment of morality for the sake of conscience.
Three More Sleepless Nights
An explosive short play about human interaction and love-tangled relationships.
Lovesick
A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives.
Hot Fudge
The competitive games of various professionals and their spouses present an amoral world where money is all and lies are the only truth.
Seagulls
A woman with an extraordinary gift begins to fear her powers are waning.
The After-Dinner Joke
A short play satirising the charity business, written for television. First broadcast on BBC One as part of the BBC's Play for Today series.
Schreber's Nervous Illness
A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.
The Judge's Wife
A short play about justice and retribution, first seen as a BBC television drama.
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
A short play set in a dystopian future, where a couple in a tower block hide from the violence and pollution outside.
Abortive
A couple in bed discuss the effect on them of the woman's recent abortion.
Mothers Against
A gripping account of a bitterly fought US governor's election from the Republican perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.
Daughters of the Revolution
A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.