Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
St Petersburg
A haunting, elliptical play by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.
The Guid Sisters
Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.
Your Turn to Clean the Stair
A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.
Stones in His Pockets
Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.
Poor Beast in the Rain
A slice of small-town life, set in a betting shop in Wexford. Part of Billy Roche's acclaimed Wexford Trilogy.
The Cavalcaders
A rousing, comic play set in an old-fashioned cobbler's shop in small-town southern Ireland.
Little Dolls
A short play about a woman seeking help from a therapist to overcome a traumatic episode in her past.
trade
A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.
generations
A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...
Mojo Mickybo
An unsentimental portrayal of innocence betrayed by communal hatred in Belfast during the 1970s.
The Waiting List
A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.
I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me
An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.
Miseryguts
A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.
A Bed of Roses
An acerbic and funny play about middle-class hypocrisy and universal apathy.
The Lament for Arthur Cleary
Bestselling novelist Dermot Bolger transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin.
Almost Nothing
An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.
At the Table
An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.
On the Beach
Part of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.