Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain
A poetic fable for the stage, about an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own.
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Sucking Dublin
By Enda WalshA fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.
Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin
The Substance of Fire and other plays
This collection contains Jon Robin Baitz's debut play, The Film Society, alongside two more recent works: The End of the Day and the title play, The Substance of Fire.
- Paperback£21.99
Stunning and other plays
By David AdjmiThe first collection by a striking new voice in American theatre.
- Paperback£17.99
Stuff
By Tom WellsA play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.
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Strawberries in January
By Evelyne de la Chenelière Translated by Rona MunroA biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montréal, in a version by Rona Munro.
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strangers, babies
By Linda McLeanThe chilling story of one woman's desperate attempts at a future that's worth living.
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Strangers in Between
By Tommy MurphyTommy Murphy's unflinching and constantly surprising drama about how we make sense of who we are through our often fraught relations with others.
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A Strange Loop
A blistering musical about a Black, queer writer, at war with a host of demons. Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- Paperback£19.99
The Strange Death of John Doe
By Fiona DoyleA powerful and poignant drama about the search for the identity of a young man whose body is found face down in a suburban street.
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Straight White Men/Untitled Feminist Show: Two Plays (US edition)
Two plays by the award-winning dramatist, the first Asian-American female playwright to be produced on Broadway.
- Paperback£16.99
Straight White Men & Untitled Feminist Show: two plays
Two compassionately subversive plays about identity, by Young Jean Lee, a Korean American playwright whose work is groundbreaking, humorous and often thrillingly transgressive.
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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
By Jo CarsonFifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.
- Paperback£13.99
Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran
By Bahram Beyza'ie, Abas Na'lbandian and Mohammad Rahmanian Translated by Soheil Parsa, Peter Farbridge and Brian QuirtFour plays from leading Iranian dramatists, translated into English for the first time: Aurash, The Death of the King, Stories from the Rains of Love and Death and Interrogation.
- Paperback£29.99
Stories
By Nina RaineA funny and touching new play about the fertilisation of an idea.
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Storefront Church
A compassionate morality tale about a elected official in the Bronx forced into a confrontation by the mortgage crisis, Storefront Church is the concluding part of John Patrick Shanley's 'Church and State' trilogy of plays.
- Paperback£18.99
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