Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Brothers of Thunder
A play about forgiveness, reconciliation and the role of the church in the modern world.
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Lazybed
A play about a man who cannot, or will not, get out of bed one morning for 'metaphysical reasons'.
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One Way Street
A one-man show set in eastern Berlin in 1995, in which Flannery tells us his life story in the form of a guide to the city.
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One Good Beating
A blackly comic short play about a grown-up brother and sister who exact revenge on their violent father.
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Come On Over
A Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before.
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Stacy
A darkly confessional monologue for one male performer and a slide projector.
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The Aspidistra Code
A sinister but comic drama of honour and violence, from the award-winning author of Howie the Rookie.
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The Play About Calais
A short play based on the author's own visit to the 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais and the people he met along the way.
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Tumulus
A chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath.
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Burkas and Bacon Butties
A heart-warming, clash-of-cultures comedy set in a Wigan taxi.
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Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her
An enthralling monologue about love and loss.
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Drip Feed
An infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.
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The Half Of It
A darkly lyrical monologue about a life, lived unseen. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award in 2018.
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Thrown
A child-psychologist attempts to record what she's spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.
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Open
A frank, refreshing romance that draws on interviews, conversation and private correspondence to explore the authors' real-life open marriage.
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Inside Voices
A blend of dark comedy and magic realism in a subversive portrayal of three Singaporean Muslim women challenging the bounds of freedom, feminism and faith in a place that isn't home.
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