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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Heavy Weather

Heavy Weather

By Lizzie Nunnery

A powerful, timely play featuring songs, about one girl taking control of her destiny in a world teetering on the brink. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre.

Isolated But Open

Isolated But Open

Voices from Across The Shutdown

By various

Twelve new monologues written in response to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 as part of Papatango's scheme to inspire creativity and share brilliant new stories.

Maggie May

Maggie May

By Frances Poet

An extraordinary drama about an ordinary family who must balance the challenges of daily life whilst living with dementia.

Jez Butterworth Plays: Two

Jez Butterworth Plays: Two

By Jez Butterworth

Three extraordinary plays by one of the most audacious and talented playwrights of our times: Jerusalem, The River and The Ferryman. Plus his short film The Clear Road Ahead, and a conversation with playwright Simon Stephens.

Daughter

Daughter

By Adam Lazarus

A darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.

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The Clear Road Ahead

The Clear Road Ahead

By Jez Butterworth

An epic short about rebirth, from the author of Jerusalem and The Ferryman.

Published in volume Jez Butterworth Plays: Two
    Run Sister Run

    Run Sister Run

    By Chloë Moss

    A witty and heartfelt play about two sisters, exploring family, class and dependence.

    seeds

    seeds

    By Mel Pennant

    A play about two mothers united in sorrow, sharing the hardship of protecting their sons – one in life, and one in death.

    Antlia Pneumatica

    Antlia Pneumatica

    By Anne Washburn

    A haunting tale of loss and friendship, blurring the lines between the real and surreal, from the author of Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play.

    How to Transcend a Happy Marriage

    How to Transcend a Happy Marriage

    By Sarah Ruhl

    A deliciously adventurous play that confronts the question of whether monogamy is enough to ensure a happy marriage.

    Plays for the Public

    Plays for the Public

    By Richard Foreman

    A volume of plays by the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.

    Concord Floral

    Concord Floral

    By Jordan Tannahill

    The Decameron meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in a supernatural thriller of suburban teenagers fleeing a mysterious plague, from an award-winning Canadian playwright.

    Mother's Daughter

    Mother's Daughter

    By Kate Hennig

    The stunning third part of Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker Trilogy, retelling the stories of three Tudor queens of England, in contemporary settings.

    The Virgin Trial

    The Virgin Trial

    By Kate Hennig

    The second part of Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker Trilogy, retelling the stories of three Tudor queens of England, in contemporary settings.

    Other Side of the Game

    Other Side of the Game

    By Amanda Parris

    A debut play by a Canadian playwright, giving voices to Black women who organise communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and do battle with institutions. Winner of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award.

    Unholy

    Unholy

    By Diane Flacks

    A play about the intersetion of faith and misogyny, asking if you can be a feminist as well as a believer.

    Meat

    Meat

    By Gillian Greer

    A play about class, consent and transgressions buried in the past, set over the course of one winesoaked evening in a Dublin restaurant.

    The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call

    The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call

    By Friedrich Dürrenmatt Adapted by Tony Kushner

    Dürrenmatt's visionary revenge play, one of the great achievements of modern German-language theatre, transported to mid-twentieth-century America by the acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner.

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