Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Maisie Says She Loves Me
A one-man play about love, inheritance and not letting your feelings show.
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£3.99£3.19
Out of Your Knowledge
A short play that explores our changing attitudes towards the landscape.
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£3.99£3.19
Why Can't We Live Together?
Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.
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£3.99£3.19
In a Vulnerable Place
A monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.
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Dean McBride
A vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.
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£3.99£3.19
Woman Caught Unaware
A searing examination of the culture of body-shaming, exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media.
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£3.99£3.19
The Road to Huntsville
A short play about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line.
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£3.99£3.19
Closer to God
A short play exploring the private worlds of strangers, living side by side but generations apart.
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£3.99£3.19
Boys and Girls
A play in verse following four young people across one night in Dublin.
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£3.99£3.19
Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane
A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.
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£3.99£3.19
twins
A short play about twins whose lives diverge, first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
The Milliner and the Weaver
A short play about the Suffragette movement in Ireland, as the question of Home Rule divides the nation.
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£4.99£3.99
Handbagged (one-act version)
A short play about the working relationship between Mrs Thatcher and the Queen.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Bloody Wimmin
A short play about the protests at Greenham Common, a political landmark in the fight for nuclear disarmament.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Acting Leader
A short play about Margaret Beckett finding herself Acting Leader of the Opposition after the sudden death of John Smith.
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£4.99£3.99
The Panel
A short play about the power politics underlying the selection of any candidate.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Playing the Game
A short play about the election of a new President of a Students' Association.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
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