Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Dracula: The Bloody Truth
A comic retelling of the story of Dracula, from John Nicholson and Exeter-based theatre company Le Navet Bete.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Drawer Boy
A multi-award winning, bitter-sweet tale of the power of storytelling, friendship, and the very thin line between truth and fiction.
- Paperback£19.99
Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane
A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
Drawing the Line
A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39A Dream
By Chris BushA riotous musical play transporting Shakespeare's most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series.
- Ebook
£7.99£6.39
The Dream Collector
By Fin KennedyAn ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.
- Ebook
£6.99£5.59
Dreaming and Drowning
By Kwame OwusuAn intimate and visceral play that dives into the mind of a young Black queer man wrestling with anxiety. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Driftwood
By Tim FoleyAn intoxicating and mystical play about love, belonging and the tides within us, premiered by Pentabus and ThickSkin on a tour of the UK.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Drinks Before Dinner
A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.
- Paperback£14.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Drip
By Tom Wells By (composer) Matthew RobinsA one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Drip Feed
By Karen CoganAn infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.
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£4.99£3.99
Drip Feed & The Half Of It: Two Plays
By Karen CoganTwo rich and startling monologues from award-winning actor and playwright Karen Cogan.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Driving Miss Daisy
By Alfred UhryThe Pulitzer Prize-winning play which became the Oscar-winning film - a delicate depiction of racial tensions and of growing old.
- Paperback£17.99
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£8.99£7.19The Drunks
By Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov Translated by Nina RaineA darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.
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£8.99£7.19
Dry Powder
A razor-sharp comedy about the people who shape – and skew – the economy.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99
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