Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Good People (TCG edition)
A penetrating drama laced with the signature humour of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Rabbit Hole. Good People explores the struggles, shifting loyalties and unshakeable hopes that come with having next to nothing.
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Liz Lochhead: Five Plays
Five 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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A hilarious comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication, exploring the modern difficulty of doing business between East and West.
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Water by the Spoonful
A Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, community and uncertainty.
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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
By Lynn NottageA hilarious satire of race in the glamorous days of Old Hollywood, told via the life of a fictional African-American movie star. From the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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The Middlemarch Trilogy
By George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey BeeversThree plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.
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Enda Walsh Plays: Two
By Enda WalshThe second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, including The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, Penelope, Ballyturk and two short plays, with a Foreword by the author.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEPUB£14.99£11.99Ayub Khan Din Plays: One
A collection of plays written and introduced by actor-turned-writer Ayub Khan Din, including his first play, East is East, which became a smash-hit film.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEPUB£14.99£11.99The Great God Pan
By Amy HerzogAn unsettling and deeply compassionate play from an acclaimed US playwright.
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In the Wake
By Lisa KronA bold, ambitious, political play about contemporary America - 'a candidate to be the Angels in America of the Bush II decade' (San Francisco Chronicle).
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Jack Thorne Plays: One
By Jack ThorneThe first collection of plays by one of the UK's most exciting young writers.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEPUB£14.99£11.99How I Learned to Drive
By Paula VogelA Lolita-like tale of female sexual awakening, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize.
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Belleville (US edition)
By Amy HerzogAmy Herzog's devastating play about an American newlywed couple who move to a boho neighbourhood in Paris, only for their relationship to begin to unravel.
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The Happiest Song Plays Last
The final installment in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s three-play cycle, which began with Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and Pulitzer Prize-winner Water by the Spoonful.
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Killer Joe (US edition)
By Tracy LettsTracy Letts's shocking and unforgettable first play, a tense, gut-twisting thriller that asks where the moral line is drawn in the fight for survival.
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A Master Builder
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Wallace ShawnWallace Shawn's version of Henrik Ibsen's Master Builder Solness, made into a film by Jonathan Demme in 2014 — a film that is an utterly contemporary vision of Ibsen's classic play.
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