Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Cockroach
A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.
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August: Osage County
By Tracy LettsA hugely-acclaimed black comedy exposing the dark side of the Midwestern American family.
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Lay Me Down Softly
By Billy RocheA heartfelt slice of life in small-town Ireland, brimming with passions and all-too-human foibles, from the author of the well-loved Wexford Trilogy.
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I Caught Crabs in Walberswick
By Joel HorwoodA fast-moving, exhilarating play about teenage hopes, dreams and frustrations in a rural part of England.
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Roaring Trade
A fast-paced and astute satire exposing just how far people go for the highest-risk jobs in the City.
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Secrets (stage version)
By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky IrelandAn adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.
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The Suitcase Kid (stage version)
By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky IrelandAn adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.
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Unbroken
A radical, modern-day re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler’s taboo-breaking 1897 play La Ronde, with its 'daisy chain' of sexual encounters.
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Seven Jewish Children
A short play written in response to the situation in Gaza at the time of writing in January 2009.
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Burnt by the Sun
A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov.
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Far from the Madding Crowd (stage version)
By Thomas Hardy Adapted by Mark HealyA smouldering adaptation of Thomas Hardy's enduring novel about a spirited and feisty young woman who finds herself playing mistress in a man's world.
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Parlour Song
A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia.
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Beauty of the Father
By Nilo CruzA play infused by the spirit and language of Lorca, about what we will sacrifice in the name of love.
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Our Late Night & A Thought In Three Parts: two plays
Two early plays by the cult US playwright, Wallace Shawn.
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Dead Man's Cell Phone
By Sarah RuhlA play about a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
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On the Beach
By Steve WatersPart of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
Published in volume The Contingency Plan
Resilience
By Steve WatersPart of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
Published in volume The Contingency Plan
Grasses of a Thousand Colours
A semi-mythological examination of nature, animals, men, and women. Strange dinners, strange parties - sources of death and life.
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