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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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This and Other Plays

The first collection from a major new voice in American theatre.

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Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (incl. Slavs!)

A collection of essays, poems, a prayer and a play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.

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Things I Know To Be True

A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family – and a marriage – through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations.

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

A cutting-edge drama – part free-wheeling lecture, part podcast and part play – investigating the disappearance of Iranian pop sensation and refugee Fereydoun Farrokhzad in 1992.

The Things Good Men Do

Good men behaving very badly in a dark comedy about twenty-somethings in London.

The Thickness of Skin

An intricate, tender play about the obligations we have to one another, and those we would rather not.

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Thick As Thieves

A tense, revealing play that explores what it means to care for one another and asks who, in a time of increasing disconnect, we expect to look after us.

Thérèse Raquin (National Theatre stage version)

A gripping psychological thriller adapted for the stage by Émile Zola himself from his own notorious novel, in a version by Nicholas Wright.

Thérèse Raquin (Theatre Royal Bath stage version)

A story of lust, madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zola's classic novel.

There is a War

A miniature epic that explores the mad savagery of war with biting black comedy, and takes us into the dark heart of a strange and surreal conflict.

There Are No Beginnings

A play about the women whose lives and livelihoods were affected by the murderous attacks of the Yorkshire Ripper.

Thebans

The Ancient myths of the Kingdom of Thebes re-told by Scotland's foremost poet/dramatist.

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That Almost Unnameable Lust

A short play about a writer holding workshops with older women in a prison.

The Thanksgiving Play / What Would Crazy Horse Do?

Two Plays

Two essential plays by award-winning Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse.

Testmatch

 A funny and provocative play about women's cricket, colonial India and the mythology of fair play. 

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Testing the Echo

A timely, provocative and witty look at the campaign to redefine Britishness for a multicultural society.

Testimonies: Four Plays

Four significant plays from a writer whose choice of 'uncomfortable' but well-documented subjects has gained her a reputation for controversy.

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Testament

The dark underside of the Greatest Story Ever Told.