Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Fanboy
A five-star hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Fanboy is a love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia, about a thirty-something, self-confessed nerd obsessed with Star Wars and Nintendo.
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Five Years with the White Man
A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.
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Honour-Bound
A powerful solo show about family, anti-Blackness, and what we're willing to sacrifice for love.
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How We Begin
A tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, staged at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.
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Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (West End edition)
A new, revised edition of Sam Steiner's startling play about what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can't say anything any more. Published alongside the West End production starring Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Unfriend
Steven Moffat's hilarious satirical play about middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Art of Illusion
By Alexis Michalik Translated by Waleed AkhtarThe award-winning French play, in an English translation by Waleed Akhtar, published alongside the premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Standing at the Sky's Edge
By Chris Bush and Richard HawleyChris 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)
By Virginia Woolf Adapted by Neil BartlettA 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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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Paradise Now!
A funny and raging play about ambition, exploitation and the search for connection in a fractured world.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Sons of the Prophet
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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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Blackout Songs
By Joe WhiteA compassionate and unflinching study of love, addiction and memory after a chance encounter at an AA meeting.
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£11.99£9.59There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£11.99£9.59Five Characters in Search of a Good Night's Sleep
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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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Mary
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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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Ladies Unleashed
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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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)
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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