Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (stage version)
Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernières' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Secret River (stage version)
By Kate Grenville Adapted by Andrew BovellA deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history, adapted from Kate Grenville's acclaimed novel.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Collapsible
A funny, furious monologue about holding on in this collapsing world.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Enough
By Stef SmithA poetic, unpredictable and explosive play about female friendship, and what happens when you can no longer be the woman people want.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99For All I Care
By Alan HarrisA fast-moving, touchingly funny play about two very different women, both having a very bad day.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99A Table Tennis Play
By Sam SteinerA play about how everything and nothing changes as people bat a ball.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.998 Hotels
A play about passion, suspicion and revenge, based on true events involving some of the twentieth century's most influential American artists.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Robert Holman Plays: One
Five plays from Robert Holman's first decade of playwriting.
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£18.99£15.19Add to basketEbook£18.99£15.19The Natural Cause
A dark and disturbing portrait of mental illness, and its effects on a young family.
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Mud
A group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors, in Robert Holman's first full-length play.
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Other Worlds
A gorilla is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community on the isolated North Yorkshire coast, in a play that explores fears of the unknown.
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Today
From a Cambridge college to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self in the midst of a shifting, uncertain world.
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The Overgrown Path
An aspiring academic arrives on a Greek island to interview a reclusive scientist, in a play about history and the stories we tell each other to make sense of ourselves.
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Daughterhood
A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency
By Nathan BryonA madcap adventure story for young people (and older detectives) to watch, read and perform.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59the end of history...
By Jack ThorneA play about families, parenting, and gigantic clashes of values.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Dark Sublime
A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams – a love-letter to British sci-fi television.
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