Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Eggs
A dark comedy about female friendship, fertility and freaking out, by Florence Keith-Roach, 'rising star of the London theatre scene' (Evening Standard).
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£3.99£3.19
Egusi Soup
A fast and funny family drama about intergenerational and cross-cultural relationships - containing plenty of spicy bits…
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£9.99£7.99
Egyptian Products
A play from Egypt, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.
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£5.99£4.79
Eight
Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Einstein's Gift
A Canadian play based on the life and work of Nobel Laureate Dr Fritz. Haber, who risked everything for a country that never accepted him, but used his work to murder millions.
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Electric Rosary
By Tim FoleyA sharp, timely and gloriously funny play that asks what faith really means in the age of artificial intelligence. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Elephants
By Rose HeineyA sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Eleventh Capital
An arresting 60-minute debut play about dislocation, manipulation and power, winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (National Theatre of Scotland version)
By Chris HannanA contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (original Traverse Theatre version)
By Chris HannanA contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.
Published in volume Scot-FreeElliot, A Soldier's Fugue
An unforgettable journey across time and generations.
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Kevin Elyot: Four Plays
By Kevin ElyotA collection of plays from the acclaimed author of My Night With Reg, spanning twenty years of work from a playwright who brilliantly captured the comedy of pain.
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£14.99£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£14.99£11.99Emilia
A riotous, witty reclaiming of the life of Emilia Bassano, poet, mistress, mother, and exceptional woman – widely considered the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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Emma (stage version)
A bold, witty and fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel which, while thoroughly modern, retains the spirit and much of the language of the original.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Empty Quarter
A play confronting the challenges we face in a foreign land, asking where, or to whom, we belong.
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£9.99£7.99
The Encounter
By Simon McBurney and CompliciteA solo show tracing one man's journey into the Amazon rainforest and to the limits of human consciousness, inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39the end of history...
By Jack ThorneA play about families, parenting, and gigantic clashes of values.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99England & Son
By Ed EdwardsA one-man play about disaster capitalism, empire, Thatcherite politics, stolen youth, stolen wealth and a working-class boy who just wants his dad to smile at him. First performed by the celebrated political comedian Mark Thomas in Paines Plough's Roundabout during the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79
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