TEMPORARY ORDER DELAYS

We’re currently experiencing temporary disruption to the availability of some titles as we move all of our books to a new warehouse, which means it may take longer than normal for your order to reach you. Click here for more information.

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

Showing 541-558 of 1,886 items.

Finsbury Park

A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.

The Fire This Time

African-American Plays for the 21st Century

A collection of African-American plays for the 21st century.

  • Paperback£23.99
    There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.

Firebird

A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited.

First Person Shooter

A funny and foreboding play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide.

First Run

New Plays by New Writers

Edited by Kate Harwood

Five significant debut plays – first staged in the UK in the late eighties – from writers who have gone on to establish their reputations in major theatres.

  • Paperback£10.99 £8.79
    There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.

First Time

A hilarious and heartbreaking true story that smashes through the stigma and shame of HIV, to present an uplifting and inspirational guide to staying positive in a negative world.

The Fishermen (stage version)

A powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate set in a small Nigerian town. Adapted from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel.

Fishskin Trousers

A haunting play about loss and grief, set in the mists of Suffolk. Also contains the short plays Enter A Gentleman and Time Spent on Trains.

Five Characters in Search of a Good Night's Sleep

By Mike Alfreds, Sonja Linden and others

A devised play exploring the experience of sleeplessness and its impact on people's lives.

Five Lesbian Brothers: Four Plays

New York-based Theatre troupe Five Lesbian Brothers explore themes of homophobia and sexism with devastating humour and the occasional song. They have been committed to creating provocative lesbian theatre with positively no whining since their inception in 1989.

  • Paperback£15.99
    There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.

Five Plays

Five plays by a major American playwright, all set in the author’s home state of Idaho, demonstrating his extraordinary knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives.

Five Years with the White Man

A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.

Fixer

An unsettling, intelligent and savagely funny play about oil geopolitics and the price of human life.

Flamingoland

A big-hearted, bittersweet comedy about mothers, sisters, love and lies.

  • Paperback£8.99 £7.19
    There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.

The Flea

James Fritz's new play about a flea, a horse, a detective, a queen, a pimp, a god, and Charlie, the telegraph boy who knelt before the Crown. Premiered at The Yard, London, in October 2023.

Fleabag: The Original Play

The outrageously funny play that became the wildly successful and 'utterly riveting' (Guardian) BBC television series.

Fleabag: The Special Edition

A special edition of the outrageously funny, blazingly forthright stage play, featuring exclusive bonus material.

Fleabag: The Welsh Edition

A Welsh language adaptation of the hit play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, first staged by Theatr Clwyd in 2023.