Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Liz Lochhead: Five Plays
Five plays from the the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the country's best-known - and best-loved - living playwrights.
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£14.99£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£14.99£11.99Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue
An unforgettable journey across time and generations.
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The Middlemarch Trilogy
By George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey BeeversThree plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.
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Ayub Khan Din Plays: One
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.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Happiest Song Plays Last
The final installment in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s three-play cycle, which began with Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and Pulitzer Prize-winner Water by the Spoonful.
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The Domino Effect and other plays for teenagers
By Fin KennedyA 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.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Country House
A witty and compelling play that takes a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other’s lives.
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World Factory: The Game
By Zoë Svendsen and Simon DawA 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.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Angels in America
By Tony KushnerA 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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Ode to Joy
By Craig LucasA sensitive drama about the interplay between illness, addiction and love, from the acclaimed American playwright Craig Lucas.
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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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Love & Science
This selection of texts makes original and inimitable works of music-theatre accessible to a wide audience for the first time.
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Spunk
A dazzlingly entertaining dramatisation of three stories by the celebrated black iconoclast, Zora Heale Hurston: a rich folk tapestry of rural and urban black America in the 20th century.
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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
By Jo CarsonFifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.
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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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