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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Collected Stories

Collected Stories

By Donald Margulies

A play exploring the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from another person's life.

Flyin' West and Other Plays

Flyin' West and Other Plays

By Pearl Cleage

A collection of work for the stage that provides a remarkable and penetrating look at the African-American experience over the last 100 years.

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Talk

Talk

By Carl Hancock Rux

A sharp and perceptive play from Carl Hancock Rux, a multidisciplinary artist born in Harlem, New York, whose trademark craft is to combine poetry, music, theatre and dance.

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Anna in the Tropics

Anna in the Tropics

By Nilo Cruz

A poignant and poetic play set in Florida in 1929, inside a Cuban-American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Radio Golf

Radio Golf

By August Wilson

A real-estate developer sets about trying to redevelop the 'blighted' Hill District of Pittsburgh in the final part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

Our Late Night & A Thought In Three Parts: two plays

Our Late Night & A Thought In Three Parts: two plays

By Wallace Shawn

Two early plays by the cult US playwright, Wallace Shawn.

subUrbia

subUrbia

By Eric Bogosian

An updated version of Bogosian's theatrical tour de force.

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The Shipment and Lear: two plays

The Shipment and Lear: two plays

By Young Jean Lee

Two plays by Korean-American theatre practitioner and writer Young Jean Lee, who here 'confirms herself as one of the best experimental playwrights in America' (Timeout New York).

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Superior Donuts

Superior Donuts

By Tracy Letts

An entertaining comedy-drama set in a local donut shop in the heart of one of Chicago's most diverse communities. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of August: Osage County.

Plays from the Arab World

Plays from the Arab World

Edited by Elyse Dodgson

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa.

Enda Walsh Plays: One

Enda Walsh Plays: One

By Enda Walsh

The first eight astonishing plays by 'one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre'.

Conor McPherson Plays: One

Conor McPherson Plays: One

By Conor McPherson

Four early plays from the author of The Weir, with a foreword by the author.

Jez Butterworth Plays: One

Jez Butterworth Plays: One

By Jez Butterworth

Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem.

Scot-Free

Scot-Free

New Scottish Plays

Edited by Alasdair Cameron

A collection of seven plays from Scottish writers, reflecting the upsurge in Scottish playwriting in the late twentieth century.

Conor McPherson Plays: Two

Conor McPherson Plays: Two

By Conor McPherson

The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author.

In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play

In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play

By Sarah Ruhl

Magnetic, nostalgic and gloriously imaginative, a comedy drama from award-winning New York playwright Sarah Ruhl.

Chinglish

Chinglish

By David Henry Hwang

A hilarious comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication, exploring the modern difficulty of doing business between East and West.

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The Lyons

The Lyons

By Nicky Silver

A deliciously savage family comedy.

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