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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Enough

Enough

By Stef Smith

A poetic, unpredictable and explosive play about female friendship, and what happens when you can no longer be the woman people want.

For All I Care

For All I Care

By Alan Harris

A fast-moving, touchingly funny play about two very different women, both having a very bad day.

A Table Tennis Play

A Table Tennis Play

By Sam Steiner

A play about how everything and nothing changes as people bat a ball.

8 Hotels

8 Hotels

By Nicholas Wright

A play about passion, suspicion and revenge, based on true events involving some of the twentieth century's most influential American artists.

Robert Holman Plays: One

Robert Holman Plays: One

By Robert Holman

Five plays from Robert Holman's first decade of playwriting.

The Natural Cause

The Natural Cause

By Robert Holman

A dark and disturbing portrait of mental illness, and its effects on a young family.

Mud

Mud

By Robert Holman

A group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors, in Robert Holman's first full-length play.

Other Worlds

Other Worlds

By Robert Holman

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.

Today

Today

By Robert Holman

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.

The Overgrown Path

The Overgrown Path

By Robert Holman

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.

Daughterhood

Daughterhood

By Charley Miles

A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them.

Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency

Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency

By Nathan Bryon

A madcap adventure story for young people (and older detectives) to watch, read and perform.

the end of history...

the end of history...

By Jack Thorne

A play about families, parenting, and gigantic clashes of values.

Dark Sublime

Dark Sublime

By Michael Dennis

A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams – a love-letter to British sci-fi television.

Rust

Rust

By Kenny Emson

An ultra-contemporary, sexy and funny play that pushes the boundaries of trust, love and lust to the limit.

Whisky Galore

Whisky Galore (stage version)

By Compton Mackenzie Adapted by Philip Goulding

A stage adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's comedy classic, combining rollicking physical theatre, panto and farce, with an array of hilarious characters for any female-led theatre company.

The Gabriels

The Gabriels

Election Year in the Life of One Family

By Richard Nelson

A trilogy of plays following an American family through the momentous and divisive 2016 presidential election year.

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Citysong

Citysong

By Carys D. Coburn

The Verity Bargate Award-winning play about three generations of a Dublin family.

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