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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Skin & Liars: Two Plays

Skin & Liars: Two Plays

By Dennis Foon

Two plays from one of Canada's leading writers and directors of theatre for young people.

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Shimmer and other texts

Shimmer and other texts

By John O'Keefe

Three hard-hitting, gritty monologues.

The Way We Live Now: American plays and the AIDS crisis

The Way We Live Now: American plays and the AIDS crisis

Edited by M. Elizabeth Osborn

A collection of dramatic material - plays, extracts from plays and dramatic adaptations - concerning the AIDS epidemic.

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New Music: a trilogy

New Music: a trilogy

By Reynolds Price

Three interrelated plays tracing the tangled path of a family's life in a North Carolina town across 37 years, from before the Second World War to the war in Vietnam.

 
Jelly's Last Jam

Jelly's Last Jam

By George C. Wolfe

The hit Broadway musical based on the life of the jazz great, Jelly Roll Morton.

Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead

Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead

By Eric Bogosian

Scorching social commentary aimed at the contemporary urban and suburban scene, from one of America's greatest standups.

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Drinks Before Dinner

Drinks Before Dinner

By E.L. Doctorow

A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.

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Testimonies: Four Plays

Testimonies: Four Plays

By Emily Mann

Four significant plays from a writer whose choice of 'uncomfortable' but well-documented subjects has gained her a reputation for controversy.

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Notes from Underground

Notes from Underground

By Eric Bogosian

Two of cult American performer Eric Bogosian's most unsettling works: Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World.

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Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still

By Donald Margulies

A photojournalist is at home in Brooklyn recovering from serious wounds sustained whilst out covering war-torn Iraq, but longs for the adrenalin rush of her past.

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Charged

Charged

Six plays about women, crime and justice

By Chloë Moss, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, E V Crowe, Sam Holcroft and Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female voices in British theatre, exploring the heartbreaking truth about the lives of women in the criminal justice system.

Mark O'Rowe Plays: One

Mark O'Rowe Plays: One

By Mark O'Rowe

Five plays from the sensational voice of new writing for Irish theatre.

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Spanish Plays

Spanish Plays

Edited by Elyse Dodgson and Mary Peate

A collection of modern Spanish and Catalan plays in translations by practising English playwrights, commissioned and first staged by the Royal Court Theatre.

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The Middlemarch Trilogy

The Middlemarch Trilogy

By George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers

Three plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.

Ayub Khan Din Plays: One

Ayub Khan Din Plays: One

By Ayub Khan Din

A collection of plays written and introduced by actor-turned-writer Ayub Khan Din, including his first play, East is East, which became a smash-hit film.

The Domino Effect and other plays for teenagers

The Domino Effect and other plays for teenagers

By Fin Kennedy

A second collection of plays by Fin Kennedy, author of How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found and The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays.

World Factory: The Game

World Factory: The Game

By Zoë Svendsen and Simon Daw

A participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play – as individuals or in teams – the managers of a clothing factory in China.

Angels in America

Angels in America

By Tony Kushner

A magnificent, two-part epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.

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