Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Homos, or Everyone in America
A raw and provocative portrait of a love story, exploding attitudes, emotions and prejudices that sit at the heart of relationships across the world.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99How to Spot an Alien
A play for young people (age five and up) to watch, read and perform, about one confused alien, two brave kids and a busted spaceship.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Drip Feed & The Half Of It: Two Plays
By Karen CoganTwo rich and startling monologues from award-winning actor and playwright Karen Cogan.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Blackthorn
A contemporary, lyrical love story that explores the changes and choices that pull us from the places and people we love.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99The Political History of Smack and Crack
By Ed EdwardsAn angry and passionate play chronicling the fallout for communities crushed by the heroin epidemic at the height of Thatcherism.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99CLASS
By Iseult Golden and David HoranFunny, heartbreaking and beautifully observed, CLASS is an award-winning play about learning difficulties: in school, in life, wherever.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99The Fishermen (stage version)
By Chigozie Obioma Adapted by Gbolahan ObisesanA powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate set in a small Nigerian town. Adapted from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Huff & Stitch: two plays
Two gritty, powerful solo shows from award-winning Indigenous Canadian playwright Cliff Cardinal, exploring the lives of marginalized characters.
- Paperback£18.99
Interruptions
A boldly innovative drama exploring ideas about democracy, politics and leadership.
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£5.99£4.79
Finsbury Park
A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.
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£2.99£2.39
Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives
Eight Monologues
Created by Vicky Featherstone By VariousA collection of monologues that document, remember and bear witness to a century of struggle for progress and equality for women in the United Kingdom.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Stephen Jeffreys: Plays
A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, including his acclaimed plays The Libertine and The Clink.
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£18.99£15.19Add to basketEPUB£18.99£15.19Flesh and Bone
A vivid and fast-paced ride through a working-class London estate, fusing Shakespeare-inspired lyricism with Cockney accents.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Genesis Inc.
An explosively funny comedy that takes a closer look at the lengths to which people will go to defy biology – and at the moral compass of an industry that trades on fear and hope.
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Following an attack on London, a family let a stranger into their house. Cordelia Lynn's play explores community and the limits of tolerance.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Bold Girls
By Rona MunroA sharply funny, moving play set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and celebrating women’s strength under siege.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99How I Learned to Drive
By Paula VogelA Lolita-like tale of female sexual awakening, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize.
- Paperback£14.99
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