Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Plays from VAULT 3
Five new plays from VAULT Festival
An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT 2018, London’s biggest and most exciting arts festival.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)
Two plays
By Steve WatersA double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99MALAPROP: plays
By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP TheatreFour plays from the award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers: bold, playful, genre-spanning work, all premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival between 2017 and 2023.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)
Two plays
By Steve WatersA double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. Original 2009 edition.
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The Floating Island Plays
In this tragi-comic quartet, Cuban-American dramatist Eduardo Machado explores the meaning of his homeland's history. The plays tell the stories of several extended families, linked by marriage and then by exile in the United States.
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Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise
These plays are not only jet-black comedies. They are fairy tales, fables, passion plays, masquerades...
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Full Moon and other plays
Three plays delicately exploring issues of love, faith, family and race.
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Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues
‘A work of burning anger and bruising emotional power’ about the foisting of powdered milk on Third World infants. Plus seven monologues.
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Bone Songs
A meditation on the nature of time and the importance of human relationships, by acclaimed avant-garde theatre director André Gregory.
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Hedda
By Lucy Kirkwood Original author Henrik IbsenA startling new version of Hedda Gabler, relocating Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine to London in 2008.
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A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children.
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By Nancy HarrisA tender and funny tale about our secret selves, and our search for connection in a fractured world.
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By Joshua Sobol Adapted by David LanThe true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.
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The Iceman Cometh
An ominous play set in a cruel world of dark realism, an acknowledged masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre.
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Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
By Rona MunroTwo plays, from the award-winning author Rona Munro.
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The Shakespeare Revue
An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Separate Tables
Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth.
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