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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Separate Tables

Separate Tables

By Terence Rattigan

Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth.

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (stage version)

By Jane Austen Adapted by Mark Healy

A faithful yet inventive adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, terrifically actable and readable.

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Selfie

Selfie

By Christine Quintana

A smart and intense play from an award-winning Canadian playwright, about the complexities of relationships and community, and the nature of consent.

Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise

Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise

By Harry Kondoleon

These plays are not only jet-black comedies. They are fairy tales, fables, passion plays, masquerades...

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seeds

seeds

By Mel Pennant

A play about two mothers united in sorrow, sharing the hardship of protecting their sons – one in life, and one in death.

Secrets

Secrets (stage version)

By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky Ireland

 An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.

The Secret River

The Secret River (stage version)

By Kate Grenville Adapted by Andrew Bovell

A deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history, adapted from Kate Grenville's acclaimed novel.

Secret Life of Humans

Secret Life of Humans

By David Byrne

A thrilling play about Dr Jacob Bronowski, buried secrets, and six million years of human history.

Secret Life of a Mother

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch With Maev Beaty and Anne-Marie Kerr

An uplifting and empowering play that reveals the raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering.

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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden (musical version)

By Marsha Norman Original author Frances Hodgson Burnett

The complete book and lyrics of Norman's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's classic.

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden (stage version)

By Frances Hodgson Burnett Adapted by Elizabeth Newman

A delightful stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's enduring tale of transformation and healing through nature.

Second Person Narrative

Second Person Narrative

By Jemma Kennedy

A play about growing up, and forging your own identity. Part of Platform, a series of big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.

Second Home

Second Home

By Charlotte Chimuanya

A play exploring the experiences of growing up mixed-race in twenty-first century Ireland.

Seagulls

Seagulls

By Caryl Churchill

A woman with an extraordinary gift begins to fear her powers are waning.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
    The Seafarer

    The Seafarer

    By Conor McPherson

    A breathtaking supernatural play from the author of The Weir.

    Sea Things

    Sea Things

    By Hassan Abdulrazzak

    A bold and startling comic thriller about climate crisis, conspiracy, and what lurks beneath the waves. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people.

    Sea Creatures

    Sea Creatures

    By Cordelia Lynn

    A haunting play about grief, loss and the power of storytelling.

    Scuttlers

    Scuttlers

    By Rona Munro

    A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

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