Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Cruising
A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Crumbs from the Table of Joy
By Lynn NottageAn arresting, thought-provoking play about racial and social issues of the late 1950s, by the first woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
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£10.99£8.79
Crush: The Musical
By Maureen Chadwick and Kath GottsAn outrageously fun musical set in an all-girls school in the 60s, from the team behind Bad Girls: The Musical.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Crushed Shells and Mud
By Ben MusgraveA play about conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties in a world trembling in the grip of a devastating epidemic.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Cuba
By Liz LochheadA play written for young people to perform, about two schoolgirls and their daring response to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Paperback£9.99
Culture Clash in Americca
A second collection of work by the award-winning Latino comedy trio.
- Paperback£19.99
Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy
Three plays from the award-winning Latino comedy trio.
- Paperback£15.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Custom of the Country
Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five PlaysDamage
By Kamal Khalladi Translated by Houda EchouafniA play from Morocco, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.
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£5.99£4.79
Dancing Bears
By Sam HolcroftA short play laying bare the twisted loyalties and violence in teenage gangs.
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£4.99£3.99
Danny, King of the Basement
A heartwarming play about a boy who creates an imaginary world to deal with the instability and hardship of his daily life.
- Paperback£19.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Daphne's Dive
A play about what it means to be an outsider while searching for empathy and connection.
- Paperback£18.99
Dara
By Shahid Nadeem Adapted by Tanya RonderAn intense domestic drama of global consequence – for India then and for our world now.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Dark Room
An intricately layered psychological thriller exposing the startling mistreatment of those most vulnerable in our society, at the hands of those who are meant to protect them.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Dark Sublime
A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams – a love-letter to British sci-fi television.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Darknet
A fascinating - and terrifying - drama that explores the world of data commodification and the uncharted deep web.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Daughter
By Adam LazarusA darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Daughterhood
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£10.39
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