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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Stanley

Stanley

By Pam Gems

A brilliant and painfully truthful portrait of Stanley Spencer, the wayward genius of modern British painting.

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Standing at the Sky's Edge

Standing at the Sky's Edge (West End edition)

By Chris Bush and Richard Hawley

Chris Bush and Richard Hawley's musical, a history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate. Winner of the Best New Musical award at the 2023 Olivier Awards.

Standing at the Sky's Edge

Standing at the Sky's Edge

By Chris Bush and Richard Hawley

Chris Bush and Richard Hawley's musical, a history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate. Winner of the Best New Musical award at the 2023 Olivier Awards.

Staging Coyote's Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English

Staging Coyote's Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English

Edited by Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles

Staging Coyote's Dream brings together ten major plays by First Nations playwrights living in Canada and the United States.

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Stage Kiss

Stage Kiss

By Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl, one of America’s most widely produced playwrights, brings her unique mix of lyricism, sparkling humour and fierce intelligence to the world of romantic comedy.

Stacy & Fanny and Faggot: two plays

Stacy & Fanny and Faggot: two plays

By Jack Thorne

Two troubled, disturbing but bleakly funny plays from a leading writer of Channel 4's Shameless and Skins.

Stacy

Stacy

By Jack Thorne

A darkly confessional monologue for one male performer and a slide projector.

St Petersburg and other plays

St Petersburg and other plays

By Declan Feenan

Three haunting, elliptical plays by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.

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St Petersburg

St Petersburg

By Declan Feenan

A haunting, elliptical play by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.

Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays
    St Nicholas

    St Nicholas

    By Conor McPherson

    An eccentric, teasing yarn from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

    Spunk

    Spunk

    By George C. Wolfe

    A dazzlingly entertaining dramatisation of three stories by the celebrated black iconoclast, Zora Heale Hurston: a rich folk tapestry of rural and urban black America in the 20th century.

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    Spring Awakening: A Musical

    Spring Awakening: A Musical

    By Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik

    The groundbreaking rock musical about teenage sexuality, with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik.

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    Spooky Action at a Distance

    Spooky Action at a Distance

    By Eve Leigh

    A hard-hitting, poignant play about anti-immigration sentiment in Britain today. In the Multiplay Drama series.

    Spinning

    Spinning

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    A contemporary tragedy set in small-town Ireland, by one of Ireland's most exciting playwrights.

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    Spiderfly

    Spiderfly

    By John Webber

    A taut, thrilling debut play for two actors, premiered at Theatre503, London.

    Speechless

    Speechless

    By Linda Brogan and Polly Teale

    The true-life drama of the extraordinary bond between two identical twin girls and their struggle to find a voice.

    Speech & Debate

    Speech & Debate

    By Stephen Karam

    A fiercely funny play by the Tony Award-winning author of The Humans.

    Speaking in Tongues

    Speaking in Tongues

    By Andrew Bovell

    A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana.

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