Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Richard Maxwell: Plays 1996-2000
The first collection of work by one of America's most important, vital and original young voices, including Boxing 2000, Caveman and the OBIE-Award winning House.
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A Single Act
A subtle and menacing play about life after a terrorist outrage.
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Be My Baby
A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.
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The President of an Empty Room
Voodoo, heroin and tobacco in a Cuban cigar factory, from the award-winning screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things.
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East Coast Chicken Supper
A scabrously funny look at 'young enterprise' in modern Scotland.
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Fair & Felt Effects: two plays
Two plays that combine innovative dramatic form with a rare emotional power.
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Fair
A powerful drama about the potent appeal of far right policies to young people in the UK.
Published in volume Fair & Felt Effects: two plays
Felt Effects
A play that unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.
Published in volume Fair & Felt Effects: two plays
On the Ceiling
By Nigel PlanerA quirky comedy about the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, from the well-known actor and writer - seen in the West End starring Ron Cook and Ralf Little.
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Playing With Fire
By David EdgarAn epic and provocative play about multi-racial Britain, from the UK's leading political playwright.
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The Doll Tower
A challenging and thought-provoking play about T.E. Lawrence and his life after Arabia.
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Paul
An irreverent and provocative drama questioning the basis of Christianity, by the author of The Romans in Britain.
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trade & generations: two plays
Two plays from the acclaimed playwright debbie tucker green.
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trade
A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.
Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
generations
A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...
Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
Great Expectations (RSC stage version)
A gritty adaptation of Dickens' least sentimental love story with a cast of some of his most unforgettable characters.
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Coram Boy (stage version)
By Jamila Gavin Adapted by Helen EdmundsonA heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread award-winning novel set in 18th-century England.
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When You Cure Me
By Jack ThorneA painful – and painfully funny – play about being very young and in love – and coping with serious illness at the same time.
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