Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
A forensic insight into the adjustment of morality for the sake of conscience.
Three More Sleepless Nights
An explosive short play about human interaction and love-tangled relationships.
Lovesick
A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives.
Hot Fudge
The competitive games of various professionals and their spouses present an amoral world where money is all and lies are the only truth.
Seagulls
A woman with an extraordinary gift begins to fear her powers are waning.
The After-Dinner Joke
A short play satirising the charity business, written for television. First broadcast on BBC One as part of the BBC's Play for Today series.
Schreber's Nervous Illness
A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.
The Judge's Wife
A short play about justice and retribution, first seen as a BBC television drama.
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
A short play set in a dystopian future, where a couple in a tower block hide from the violence and pollution outside.
Abortive
A couple in bed discuss the effect on them of the woman's recent abortion.
Mothers Against
A gripping account of a bitterly fought US governor's election from the Republican perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.
Daughters of the Revolution
A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.
Fair
A powerful drama about the potent appeal of far right policies to young people in the UK.
Felt Effects
A play that unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.
Tearing the Loom
A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.
In a Little World of Our Own
A powerful drama about how the conflict in Northern Ireland affects whole families, and of how the violence of the streets is brought into the heart of the home.
Fifty Words
A searingly honest, beautifully observed portrait of marriage.
Side Effects
Michael Weller's Fifty Words culminated in one desperate phone call. Side Effects is the story of what happened on the other end of the line.