Modern Drama

A short play by one of the UK's leading dramatists.

A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war.

Five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one young woman buckles under pressures of her own.

An unflinching and bold exploration of the internal lives of young women. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre.

Your partner's died, could things have been different? A short play by Caryl Churchill, published with another short piece, Air.

Set in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play by a leading Mexican writer stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.

A powerful exploration of machismo and sexual desire, by Peru's most acclaimed writer.

A multidisciplinary theatre piece about the most infamous poisoners in history, written by Caryl Churchill in collaboration with composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Ian Spink. 

David Edgar's landmark play about the twenty-somethings who came of age in 1968 and were drawn into revolutionary politics. Revised version staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2018.

An autobiographical monologue, written to be performed by its author David Edgar, in which Edgar at seventy confronts the ideals of his twenty-something self.

Three short plays by one of the most inventive dramatists working today, each written in response to political events.

A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.

A poetic, explosive thriller about three young men on a night out that ends in violence.

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.

A fast-paced and astute satire exposing just how far people go for the highest-risk jobs in the City.

An unsettling, intelligent and savagely funny play about oil geopolitics and the price of human life.

A play about modern-day sex trafficking, joint winner of the 2010 John Whiting Award.

A sharply perceptive, darkly funny riff on urban isolation by one of Scotland's leading playwrights.

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.