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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Gabriels

The Gabriels

Election Year in the Life of One Family

By Richard Nelson

A trilogy of plays following an American family through the momentous and divisive 2016 presidential election year.

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Game

Game

By Mike Bartlett

A provocative play that invites us to spy on a family as they embark on a dangerous new way to live.

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

By Taylor Mac

Performance artist Taylor Mac picks up where William Shakespeare's blood-soaked tragedy Titus Andronicus left off in a play that explores generic boundaries and charts the violence done by those in charge, and the lives of those left to clean up.

The Gatekeeper

The Gatekeeper

By Chloë Moss

A darkly comic play about the disintegration of a family get-together.

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The Gathered Leaves

The Gathered Leaves

By Andrew Keatley

A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997.

The Gay Heritage Project

The Gay Heritage Project

By Damian Atkins, Paul Dunn and Andrew Kushnir

An important piece of contemporary queer theatre, from three of Canada's most gifted performers.

Gem of the Ocean

Gem of the Ocean

By August Wilson

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1904. Aunt Esther, the 285-year-old fiery matriarch of 1839 Wylie Avenue, sets Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama, on a soaring, lyrical journey of spiritual awakening.

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generations

generations

By debbie tucker green

A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
    Genesis Inc.

    Genesis Inc.

    By Jemma Kennedy

    An explosively funny comedy that takes a closer look at the lengths to which people will go to defy biology – and at the moral compass of an industry that trades on fear and hope.

    Germ Free Adolescent

    Germ Free Adolescent

    By Natalie Mitchell

    A fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway?

    German Skerries

    German Skerries

    By Robert Holman

    An uplifting portrait of human hope and vulnerability, weaving resonant drama out of a friendship, a marriage, a holiday, and a death.

    Getting Away With Murder

    Getting Away With Murder

    By Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

    A compellingly original comedy thriller, and Sondheim's first ever non-musical play.

    Ghetto

    Ghetto

    By Joshua Sobol Adapted by David Lan

    The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.

    Ghost Stories

    Ghost Stories (stage version)

    By Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman

    The terrifying stageplay and worldwide cult phenomenon about a Professor of Parapsychology whose rationality is tested to breaking point – and beyond.

    Ghost Stories from an Old Country

    Ghost Stories from an Old Country

    By Tajinder Singh Hayer

    A riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us, threaded through with captivating fables. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

    Published in volume Papatango Plays
      The Giant

      The Giant

      By Antony Sher

      A powerful, witty and moving play exploring the dark interplay between sexuality and creativity.

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      The Gift

      The Gift

      By Janice Okoh

      An outrageous play about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea.

      Gilt

      Gilt

      By Stephen Greenhorn, Rona Munro and Isabel Wright

      An exciting innovation: three of Scotland's top playwrights combine forces on a single play - staged by 7:84 Scotland in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.

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