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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Screwed

A gripping dramatic portrait of a destructive friendship between two women who push themselves to their limits.

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Scottish Shorts

Edited by Philip Howard

A collection of nine very different short plays by three remarkable generations of Scottish writers, ideal performance in studio theatres and at festivals.

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Scotland Plays

New Scottish Drama

Edited by Philip Howard

A collection of seven plays by Scottish writers, selected and introduced by Philip Howard, artistic director of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.

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New Scottish Plays

A collection of seven plays from Scottish writers, reflecting the upsurge in Scottish playwriting in the late twentieth century.

The Scorched Garden

By Juan Mayorga Translated by Nick Darke

A play about a group of inmates who have been locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War.

Scorched

By Wajdi Mouawad Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A haunting, poetic play from one of Canada's leading playwrights, Scorched is a powerful investigation of trauma and family ties.

Scorch

A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'.

Scissors

A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.

The Schuman Plan

The story of post-war Britain and its love-hate relationship with Europe, recounted as a thrilling, fast-moving epic of machiavellian politics and private heartbreak.

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Schreber's Nervous Illness

A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

    Scenes From the Big Picture

    An epic, masterful twenty-plus-character play about Belfast and its multitude of urban denizens.

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    Scarborough

    An electrifying portrayal of a dangerously charged romance between a fifteen-year-old and their teacher.

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    Scandaltown

    A comedy for the new Restoration of the theatres, set in contemporary, post-pandemic London, full of illicit sex, political hypocrisy and the machinations of a fame-hungry elite.

    Saying Yes

    A short play by a leading Argentine playwright, telling the shocking story of an everyday trip to the hairdressers.

    The Saviour

    A play charting the extraordinary shift in social, political and religious life in Ireland over the past thirty years.

    Save + Quit

    The stories of four young people in London and Dublin and how they attempt to live in the cities they call home.

    SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays

    Two sweet and saucy comedies from an award-winning Irish playwright.

    SAUCE

    A play about death and rebirth, from an award-winning Irish playwright.

    Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays