Modern Drama

A short play from the author of Jumpers for Goalposts.

A short monologue play for a female performer.

A quiet masterpiece tracing the lives of five strangers who come together in a community centre in Vermont, New England, for a series of creative drama classes for adults.

A short play set in a Westminster dressing room, as Prime Minister Dave prepares for his first ever bout of Prime Minister's Questions.

A short play by April De Angelis, about a patient and her psychiatrist as they head into the wilderness to find out how sane any of us really are.

A short play about three young Israelis caught up in a hostage situation.

A short play set in 2053 in what was once Greenland.

A short play about war and family life.

A short play about sponsorship and the arts.

A short play about a family divided by politics, first performed in the week of Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017.

The story of Troy Maxson, once a baseball star in the Negro Leagues, now fighting for the right to be first black man to drive a garbage truck in 1950s Pittsburgh.

A short play written in response to the situation in Gaza at the time of writing in January 2009.

A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

A poetic and heart-rending play written in response to the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

A short dark comedy from Spain, in which a naive middle-aged transvestite encounters a petty thief nicknamed 'sour face'.

A heartbreaking short play about guilt, grief and responsibility, written for and performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2011.

A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, dissecting the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.