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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Testimonies: Four Plays

Testimonies: Four Plays

By Emily Mann

Four significant plays from a writer whose choice of 'uncomfortable' but well-documented subjects has gained her a reputation for controversy.

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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.

Dogeaters

Dogeaters

By Jessica Hagedorn

A hard-hitting play about the Philippines in the Marcos era, adapted by Jessica Hagedorn from her own novel of the same name.

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.

Intimate Apparel & Fabulation: Two Plays

Intimate Apparel & Fabulation: Two Plays

By Lynn Nottage

Two companion pieces spanning 100 years in the lives of African American women.

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.

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).

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.

Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still

By Donald Margulies

A photojournalist is at home in Brooklyn recovering from serious wounds sustained whilst out covering war-torn Iraq, but longs for the adrenalin rush of her past.

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Next to Normal

Next to Normal

By Brian Yorkey

The Pulitzer Prize-winning musical set in a crisis-stricken suburban household, exploring how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family's world intact.

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The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays

The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays

By Fin Kennedy

Tender, uncompromising, haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a contemporary chronicle of the lives of East London's young women.

Charged

Charged

Six plays about women, crime and justice

By Chloë Moss, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, E V Crowe, Sam Holcroft and Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female voices in British theatre, exploring the heartbreaking truth about the lives of women in the criminal justice system.

Mark O'Rowe Plays: One

Mark O'Rowe Plays: One

By Mark O'Rowe

Five plays from the sensational voice of new writing for Irish theatre.

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Caryl Churchill: Shorts

Caryl Churchill: Shorts

By Caryl Churchill

Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author.

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The Resistance Trilogy

The Resistance Trilogy

By Ariel Dorfman

Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by the author.

Spanish Plays

Spanish Plays

Edited by Elyse Dodgson and Mary Peate

A collection of modern Spanish and Catalan plays in translations by practising English playwrights, commissioned and first staged by the Royal Court Theatre.

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Kevin Elyot: Four Plays

Kevin Elyot: Four Plays

By Kevin Elyot

A collection of plays from the acclaimed author of My Night With Reg, spanning twenty years of work from a playwright who brilliantly captured the comedy of pain.

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