Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Plays from VAULT 2
Five new plays from VAULT Festival
An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.
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By Tony KushnerA magnificent, two-part epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.
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Comment is Free & Start Swimming
Two plays
By James FritzTwo plays by award-winning writer James Fritz, each asking urgent, pointed and complex questions of the times we live in.
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Three Award-winning Monologues
An anthology of the best new writing in monologue form, celebrating unique voices with exceptional stories to tell.
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By Josh AzouzTwo plays showcasing the exciting and distinctive voice of Josh Azouz.
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Edited by Sue ParrishA collection of short plays curated by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre.
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The Verity Bargate Award-winning play about three generations of a Dublin family, plus two other plays: Boys and Girls and Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane.
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A play about the women whose lives and livelihoods were affected by the murderous attacks of the Yorkshire Ripper.
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Two plays
By Arinzé KeneTwo plays, both set in contemporary inner-city London, showcasing the remarkable poetic and theatrical imagination of writer/performer Arinzé Kene.
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Two sweet and saucy comedies from an award-winning Irish playwright.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEPUB£12.99£10.3915 Heroines
15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
Drawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.
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An engrossing verbatim created from five years of interviews with twelve young people from across the UK. A captivating portrait of their teenage years as they journey into adulthood.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEPUB£12.99£10.39Raging: Three Plays/Seven Years of Warfare in Ireland
Wild Sky, Embargo & Outrage
A trilogy of landmark plays - Wild Sky, Embargo and Outrage - commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising to the Civil War which began in 1922.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEPUB£12.99£10.39Steve Waters: Shorts
Five Plays
By Steve WatersFive short plays from acclaimed playwright Steve Waters, all of them deeply personal accounts of his attempts to make sense of twenty-first-century Britain and an ever-changing world.
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Papatango Plays
Three Prize-Winning Plays
Three urgent and compelling plays, joint winners of the 2021 New Writing Prize awarded by acclaimed theatre company Papatango, in partnership with English Touring Theatre.
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Insurrection: Holding History
An African-American graduate student is transported back through time, with his 189-year-old grandfather, to Nat Turner's infamous slave rebellion.
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Hedda
By Lucy Kirkwood Original author Henrik IbsenA startling new version of Hedda Gabler, relocating Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine to London in 2008.
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