Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Seven-Eleven
Cabron (the Bastard) isn't having a good day. His scams aren't going well. Thank god for the Seven-Eleven and its constant supply of hot-dogs.
Little Certainties
Mario is missing, presumed dead. In the town of Tijuana, his brother and sister make a shocking discovery about Mario and his secrets.
Used Blood Junkyard
Làzaro, his mates and his porn-star girlfriend are 'art terrorists'... Can anything stop their killing spree?
Disco Pigs
Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits
Harlequinade
A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.
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
Eileen works in her father's betting shop in a small town in Southern Ireland, surrounded by the 'left behind'.
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
Mojo and Mickybo relive the summer of 1970 when they were growing up in Belfast, playing headers, building huts and re-enacting cowboy movies. An unsentimental portrayal of innocence betrayed by communal hatred.
The Waiting List
A 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.