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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Through the Leaves and other plays

Three plays from the controversial German playwright whose works have helped reshape world drama.

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The Rug Merchants of Chaos and other plays

Three astonishingly original, provocative, scathingly funny plays from the Obie award-winning American writer.

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Pride's Crossing

A play about Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel.

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Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

A monologue by a master of the art - 100% pure high octane Bogosian.

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Swimming to Cambodia

Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.

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Dracula (stage version)

Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel.

Blood and Ice

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.

Salt

A modern morality tale about the corrosive effect of money, joint winner of the 2008 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.

The Last Witch

A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart.

Speaking in Tongues

A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana.

Disconnect

An urgent exposé of the realities behind the international call centre.

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What We Know

A funny, painful and deeply moving play about loss - and cooking.

Me, As A Penguin

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (stage version)

Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators, vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.

Women, Power and Politics: Then

Four plays

By various

A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.

Women, Power and Politics: Now

Five plays

By various

A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.

Speechless

The true-life drama of the extraordinary bond between two identical twin girls and their struggle to find a voice.

Winterlong

A shattering and heartbreaking play, joint winner of the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.