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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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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.

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Culture Clash in Americca

Culture Clash in Americca

By Culture Clash

A second collection of work by the award-winning Latino comedy trio.

Flower Drum Song

Flower Drum Song

By (composer) Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II By David Henry Hwang

The Classic 1958 musical brilliantly updated by the leading Asian-American playwright.

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Sunset Song

Sunset Song (stage version)

By Lewis Grassic Gibbon Adapted by Alastair Cording

A classic of Scots literature, brilliantly adapted for the stage.

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Singer

Singer

By Peter Flannery

An epic fable of post-war Britain, told with lurid and exhilarating energy.

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Continental Divide: two plays

Continental Divide: two plays

By David Edgar

In this two-play cycle set against the background of a bitterly fought American governor's election, David Edgar explores what has happened to the revolutionary fervour which took hold of both the Right and the Left in the 1960s, and how it has been carried over into the politics of today.

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Mothers Against

Mothers Against

By David Edgar

A gripping account of a bitterly fought US governor's election from the Republican perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays
    Daughters of the Revolution

    Daughters of the Revolution

    By David Edgar

    A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

    Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays
      Mongoose

      Mongoose

      By Peter Harness

      A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.

      Published in volume Singular Male Voices
        Cold Comfort

        Cold Comfort

        By Owen McCafferty

        A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

        Published in volume Singular Male Voices
          Brazil

          Brazil

          By Ronan O'Donnell

          A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.

          Published in volume Singular Male Voices
            Flush

            Flush

            By David Dipper

            A brash and sexy short play about death, deceit and poker.

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            Ladybird

            Ladybird

            By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha Dugdale

            A tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine.

            Animal Farm

            Animal Farm (stage version)

            By George Orwell Adapted by Ian Wooldridge

            A powerful and straightforward dramatisation of Orwell's enduring parable on the perils of totalitarianism.

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            Almost Nothing & At the Table

            Almost Nothing & At the Table

            Two plays

            By Marcos Barbosa Translated by Mark O'Thomas

            Two tense and unnerving short plays from talented Brazilian playwright, Marcos Barbosa.

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            Gone to Earth

            Gone to Earth (stage version)

            By Mary Webb Adapted by Helen Edmundson

            A vivid, emotional stage version of Mary Webb's novel of rural passion, premiered by Shared Experience Theatre Company.

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            Take Me Away

            Take Me Away

            By Gerald Murphy

            A dark but very funny comedy about the collapse of a family of feckless chancers and no-hopers.

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            Words of Advice for Young People

            Words of Advice for Young People

            By Ioanna Anderson

            An intriguing and offbeat play about family and religion.

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