Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Standing at the Sky's Edge
Chris Bush and Richard Hawley's musical, a history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate. Winner of the Best New Musical award at the 2023 Olivier Awards.
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Orlando (stage version)
A sparkling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's famous fantasy, premiered in the West End with Golden Globe winner Emma Corrin leading an ensemble company.
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A funny and raging play about ambition, exploitation and the search for connection in a fractured world.
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Stephen Karam's award-winning drama - a blackly comic play about dealing with loss - published alongside its European premiere at Hampstead Theatre.
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By Clive JuddA tender, funny and utterly truthful play about family and feeling. Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize.
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By Joe WhiteA compassionate and unflinching study of love, addiction and memory after a chance encounter at an AA meeting.
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By Mike Alfreds, Sonja Linden and othersA devised play exploring the experience of sleeplessness and its impact on people's lives.
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By Rona MunroA political thriller for the stage, set in the 1560s and portraying events around Mary Stuart, the troubled Queen of Scots. Part of Rona Munro's breathtaking theatrical exploration of Scottish history.
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A moving comedy for the stage, about friendship, growing older and living for today, reuniting the characters from the smash-hit plays Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under.
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Two plays
By Steve WatersA double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Ivy Tiller: Vicar's Daughter, Squirrel Killer
By Bea RobertsA blackly comic play that challenges our assumptions about who belongs and who thrives, and exposes the dark side of the rural idyll. Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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By Rona MunroA thrilling historical drama set in an uncharted period of Scottish history, with two Moorish women arriving in the dangerous world of the court of James IV.
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By Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by Neil BartlettAn inventive, brilliantly theatrical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's darkly fascinating tale of male violence, guilt and privilege.
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A darkly comic play examining the subtle shift from cared-for to carer and how dignity and independence are maintained in isolated rural areas.
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By Pearl CleageA remarkable dramatic portrait of life in New York City in 1930, as the Harlem Renaissance starts to feel the bite of the Great Depression.
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Othello (Frantic Assembly version)
Frantic Assembly's electrifying take on Shakespeare's tragedy of paranoia, sex and murder, firmly rooted in a volatile twenty-first century.
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A sharp-witted and devastating play charting the parallel lives of two gay Pakistani men as they negotiate everything from casual hook-ups to the UK's hostile environment.
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By Richard EyreA play about a government medical advisor, knighted for his role during the pandemic, whose life begins to unravel at his own lavish birthday party.
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