Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage (stage version)
The stage version of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage, which is set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.
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Suzan-Lori Parks' fierce and intimate three-person drama, a companion piece to her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog.
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Borders
By Henry NaylorAn urgent, moving and occasionally hilarious play about the migrant crisis and the politics of the Middle East.
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A hard-hitting and original family drama.
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A brand-new ancient-history play in verse that tells the story of one of Britain's most iconic women: a queen, a warrior and a rebel.
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A moving, truthful and darkly comic play about one woman's experience of a women's refuge.
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By John Boyne Adapted by Angus JacksonA deeply moving and thought-provoking stage play based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne.
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By Ella HicksonFour boys face the tricky transition to adulthood in Ella Hickson's riot of a play.
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A play in verse following four young people across one night in Dublin.
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Boys Will Be Boys
An exhilarating play about a ruthless female City trader who takes on a young and ambitious protegee.
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A scorching play about a fourteen-year-old boy struggling to make sense of his place in an impoverished world filled with seemingly random killings of young black men.
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A boldly theatrical tale of grief and denial, set against the economic crisis of the 1930s.
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And a Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production
A unique theatrical investigation into how teenagers' brains work, and why they’re designed by evolution to be the way they are.
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A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.
Published in volume Singular Male VoicesA Breakfast of Eels
An intense, elusive, and quietly beautiful play about a family crisis.
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Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.
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Breed
By Lou RamsdenA sharp and savage play about the animals we are and the people we try to be.
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By Tony KushnerFrom the author of Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day was Kushner's first major play. Written against the backdrop of Reagan's America, it is a powerful portrayal of individual resolution in the face of political catastrophe.
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