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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Plays from VAULT 4

Plays from VAULT 4

Seven new plays from VAULT Festival

An anthology of seven of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2019, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.

You Stupid Darkness!

You Stupid Darkness!

By Sam Steiner

An urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart.

soft animals

soft animals

By Holly Robinson

A tender and unflinching story about motherhood, self-destruction and the way women help each other heal.

Thrown

Thrown

By Jodi Gray

A child-psychologist attempts to record what she's spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.

Open

Open

By Christopher Adams and Timothy Allsop

A frank, refreshing romance that draws on interviews, conversation and private correspondence to explore the authors' real-life open marriage.

Inside Voices

Inside Voices

By Nabilah Said

A blend of dark comedy and magic realism in a subversive portrayal of three Singaporean Muslim women challenging the bounds of freedom, feminism and faith in a place that isn't home.

Alcatraz

Alcatraz

By Nathan Lucky Wood

A thrilling play about family and social care that follows 11-year-old Sandy on her daring, Christmas mission to emulate Clint Eastwood and bust her gran out of lock-up.

3 Billion Seconds

3 Billion Seconds

By Maud Dromgoole

A hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life.

JERICHO

JERICHO

By MALAPROP Theatre

An off-kilter, high-energy, form-pushing play about what pro-wrestling and politics have in common.

A Hundred Words for Snow

A Hundred Words for Snow

By Tatty Hennessy

A play about a teenage girl's solo journey to the North Pole with her father's ashes.

Superhoe

Superhoe

By Nicôle Lecky

The hit stage play behind the BAFTA-winning BBC TV drama series Mood, about a twenty-something who spends all her time on social media while dreaming of becoming a success.

Distant Early Warning

Distant Early Warning

By Tatty Hennessy

A short play set in 2053 in what was once Greenland.

Published in volume A Hundred Words for Snow
    Cost of Living

    Cost of Living

    By Martyna Majok

    Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny play that explores our need to connect and be loved regardless of the gulfs that disability, race, class, and wealth place between us.

    Original Death Rabbit

    Original Death Rabbit

    By Rose Heiney

    A painfully funny play, shining a light on one woman's struggle with the dark side of the internet

    One Jewish Boy

    One Jewish Boy

    By Stephen Laughton

    A bittersweet comedy addressing anti-Semitism through one young family's struggle against prejudice.

    Sweat

    Sweat

    By Lynn Nottage

    A topical reflection of the present and poignant outcome of America's economic decline. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Best Play at the 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

    Three

    Three

    By Stephen Laughton

    A short play about three young Israelis caught up in a hostage situation.

    Published in volume One Jewish Boy
      The Messiah

      The Messiah

      By Patrick Barlow

      A hilarious Christmas comedy that conjures up the sublime, the ridiculous and the truly angelic.

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