Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Ladies Foursome
A funny, fast-paced, heartwarming story of friendship inspired by Norm Foster's popular play The Foursome.
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Neva
English/Spanish billingual edition
A politically charged, haunting interrogation of theatre and the revolutionary impulse.
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Small Tragedy
A remarkably funny, sharply articulated missive about tragedy in the contemporary world.
- Paperback£15.99
Linda Vista
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts dissects the midlife crisis in a play that combines humanity with humour.
- Paperback£15.99
A Strange Loop
A blistering musical about a Black, queer writer, at war with a host of demons. Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- Paperback£15.99
What the Constitution Means to Me
An acclaimed play tracing the effect that the US Constitution has had on four generations of women in the author's family. A finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- Paperback£15.99
Mlima's Tale
A powerful and unforgettable drama about the illegal international ivory trade, from an American dramatist whose plays have captivated audiences around the world.
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Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Performance artist Taylor Mac picks up where William Shakespeare's blood-soaked tragedy Titus Andronicus left off in a play that explores generic boundaries and charts the violence done by those in charge, and the lives of those left to clean up.
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The Melville Boys
Owen and Lee Melville arrive at a lakeside cabin for a weekend of fishing, but their plans are thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters who become catalysts for a tenderly funny and unsentimental look at four lives in transition.
- Paperback£14.99
Skin & Liars: Two Plays
Two plays from one of Canada's leading writers and directors of theatre for young people.
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The Way We Live Now: American plays and the AIDS crisis
A collection of dramatic material - plays, extracts from plays and dramatic adaptations - concerning the AIDS epidemic.
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Pacific Overtures
Exploring the opening up of Japan to American influence and using motifs from Japanese theatre and music, this is one of Sondheim's most adventurous musicals.
- Paperback£14.99
Assassins
A dark and funny look at the end of the American dream - Stephen Sondheim lifts musical theatre to new heights of brilliance.
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Romulus Linney: Six Plays
Six plays from a major talent of the American theatre, endowed with Linney's lyric intensity, and augmented by his rich sense of humour.
- Paperback£14.99
A Bright Room Called Day
From the author of Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day was Kushner's first major play. Written against the backdrop of Reagan's America, it is a powerful portrayal of individual resolution in the face of political catastrophe.
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Passion
A one-act musical about a sickly woman's love for a handsome young army captain.
- Paperback£14.99
The America Play and other works
A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.
- Paperback£14.99
Company (US edition)
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's iconic musical comedy about life, love and marriage.
- Paperback£14.99
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