Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise
These plays are not only jet-black comedies. They are fairy tales, fables, passion plays, masquerades...
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Full Moon and other plays
Three plays delicately exploring issues of love, faith, family and race.
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Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues
‘A work of burning anger and bruising emotional power’ about the foisting of powdered milk on Third World infants. Plus seven monologues.
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Raised in Captivity
The story of two siblings reunited at their mother's funeral.
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The Last Night of Ballyhoo
A bitter-sweet romantic comedy from the author of Driving Miss Daisy.
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Golden Child
David Hwang invokes the age in which his great grandfather broke with Confucian tradition by converting to Christianity and unbinding his daughter's feet. Golden Child explores the impact of these momentous decisions on succeeding generations.
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Bone Songs
A meditation on the nature of time and the importance of human relationships, by acclaimed avant-garde theatre director André Gregory.
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Hedda
A startling new version of Hedda Gabler, relocating Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine to London in 2008.
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A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children.
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By Nancy HarrisA tender and funny tale about our secret selves, and our search for connection in a fractured world.
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By Joshua Sobol Adapted by David LanThe true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.
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The Iceman Cometh
An ominous play set in a cruel world of dark realism, an acknowledged masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre.
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Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
By Rona MunroTwo plays, from the award-winning author Rona Munro.
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The Shakespeare Revue
An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Separate Tables
Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth.
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A gripping play about the nature of violence.
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A comedy drama about an all-female theatre company touring Britain during the darkest days of World War Two, written by the well-known actress and premiered in the West End.
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