Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
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An epic and incendiary thriller about the Gunpowder Plot, weaving together the lives of kings, terrorists, priests and spies.
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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£10.99£8.79The Canterbury Tales (stage version)
By Geoffrey Chaucer Adapted by Mike PoultonA landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Christmas is Miles Away
By Chloë MossA touching play about adolescent friendship.
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By Craig LucasA 'greatest hits' volume by one of the best-known gay playwrights in the US.
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O go my Man
A satirical comedy of modern manners set in contemporary Dublin. Joint winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for 2006-07.
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Swimming to Cambodia
Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.
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The Clean House and other plays
By Sarah RuhlA collection of plays by the award-winning American playwright Sarah Ruhl, a dramatist with 'a unique comic voice, perspective and sense of theatre' Variety.
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Doubt
The hit Broadway play, filmed in 2008 with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Midnight (stage version)
By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky IrelandAn adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.
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Bad Girls (stage version)
By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky IrelandAn energetic, fast-moving adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic, by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.
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The Lottie Project (stage version)
By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky IrelandAn adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.
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Touched
By Stephen LoweA revered modern classic about life in a working-class suburb of Nottingham in the closing days of World War II.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99The Winterling
A comedy thriller from the author of the Olivier Award-winning Jerusalem.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59The Gist of It
By Rodney LeeA fast and furious drama of misunderstandings, about three people who desperately want to be loved.
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Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (National Theatre of Scotland version)
By Chris HannanA contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99Immaculate
A laugh-out-loud comic variation on the virgin birth.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Schuman Plan
By Tim LuscombeThe story of post-war Britain and its love-hate relationship with Europe, recounted as a thrilling, fast-moving epic of machiavellian politics and private heartbreak.
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