Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
A Fair Country
A play in the tradition of Arthur Miller: an impassioned exploration of the impact of politics on an American family.
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Getting Away With Murder
A compellingly original comedy thriller, and Sondheim's first ever non-musical play.
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Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this is the third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays,
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59A Mouthful of Birds
By Caryl Churchill and David LanA collaborative piece written with David Lan, combining words and dance. Inspired by Euripides' Bacchae, the play explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves'.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: ThreeAnna Weiss
By Mike CullenAn explosive, gripping and disturbing play about the phenomenon of False Memory Syndrome.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin
By Enda WalshThe award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists - plus his short play, Sucking Dublin.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Sucking Dublin
By Enda WalshA fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.
Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking DublinDisco Pigs
By Enda WalshEnda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits
Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking DublinVenus
A bold exploration of colonisation and objectification, based on the true story of the 'Hottentot Venus'.
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Marisol and other plays
By José RiveraA collection of plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, bearing his hallmark traits of magic realism and expressionism.
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Possible Worlds
By John MightonTwo lovers experience a baffling series of relationships together, each one just slightly and tantalizingly different.
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The Mammary Plays
How I Learned to Drive & The Mineola Twins
By Paula VogelTwo plays by a leading American dramatist, which together provide mirror-image investigations of coming of age in the sixties.
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The Mineola Twins
By Paula VogelAn outrageously satirical play examining women's experience and the women's movement over more than three decades in post-World War II America.
Published in volume The Mammary PlaysThe Day I Stood Still
By Kevin ElyotA poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg, about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£8.99£7.19Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own
Two plays from playwright Gary Mitchell, known for his powerful explorations of the conflicts troubling Northern Ireland.
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Tearing the Loom
A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.
Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our OwnIn a Little World of Our Own
A powerful drama about how the conflict in Northern Ireland affects whole families, and of how the violence of the streets is brought into the heart of the home.
Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our OwnJane Eyre (Shared Experience stage version)
By Charlotte Brontë Adapted by Polly TealeA bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage.
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