Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Village
A punchy and provocative story about democracy, power, and how we can try to build a better world. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people.
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Wellington 24
An upbeat and empowering World War II tale about teamwork, collaboration and beating the odds. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people.
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£7.99£6.39
Nine Lessons and Carols
Stories for a Long Winter
A play about connection and isolation, forged during the Covid pandemic, exploring what we hold on to in troubled times.
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£7.99£6.39
(Not) the End of the World
A daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism.
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£7.99£6.39
The Wife of Cyncoed
A charming and open-hearted one-woman play about self-discovery later in life.
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£7.99£6.39
Idyll
A captivating short play about rural Britain, premiered by Pentabus Theatre in 2021.
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£7.99£6.39
Flamingoland
A big-hearted, bittersweet comedy about mothers, sisters, love and lies.
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Cherry Blossom
A play about the myths, ideas and realities of migration and identity in the twenty-first century.
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Mine
By Polly TealeA haunting drama about adoption, premiered by Shared Experience.
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The Convict's Opera
The world's first ever musical, The Beggar's Opera, is performed on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.
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Six Acts of Love
A bittersweet play about the rich complexities of life, love and death.
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Unbroken
A radical, modern-day re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler’s taboo-breaking 1897 play La Ronde, with its 'daisy chain' of sexual encounters.
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Lay Me Down Softly
By Billy RocheA heartfelt slice of life in small-town Ireland, brimming with passions and all-too-human foibles, from the author of the well-loved Wexford Trilogy.
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St Petersburg and other plays
Three haunting, elliptical plays by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.
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I Caught Crabs in Walberswick
By Joel HorwoodA fast-moving, exhilarating play about teenage hopes, dreams and frustrations in a rural part of England.
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Death of Long Pig
By Nigel PlanerTwo great artists - Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin - confront their own mortality in the strange and supernatural Polynesian islands they made their home.
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Burnt by the Sun
A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov.
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