Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Neva
English/Spanish billingual edition
A politically charged, haunting interrogation of theatre and the revolutionary impulse.
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Small Tragedy
A remarkably funny, sharply articulated missive about tragedy in the contemporary world.
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Slave Play
A play that rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America.
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The Melville Boys
Owen and Lee Melville arrive at a lakeside cabin for a weekend of fishing, but their plans are thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters who become catalysts for a tenderly funny and unsentimental look at four lives in transition.
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Skin & Liars: Two Plays
Two plays from one of Canada's leading writers and directors of theatre for young people.
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The Way We Live Now: American plays and the AIDS crisis
A collection of dramatic material - plays, extracts from plays and dramatic adaptations - concerning the AIDS epidemic.
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Pacific Overtures
Exploring the opening up of Japan to American influence and using motifs from Japanese theatre and music, this is one of Sondheim's most adventurous musicals.
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Assassins
A dark and funny look at the end of the American dream - Stephen Sondheim lifts musical theatre to new heights of brilliance.
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Romulus Linney: Six Plays
Endowed with Linney's lyric intensity, augmented by his rich sense of humour, these plays illuminate a major talent of the American theatre.
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A Bright Room Called Day
From the author of Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day was Kushner's first major play. Written against the backdrop of Reagan's America, it is a powerful portrayal of individual resolution in the face of political catastrophe.
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Passion
A musical based on a 19th-century Italian novel, Passion tells of the consequences of a sickly woman's love for a handsome young army captain.
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The America Play and other works
A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.
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Company (US edition)
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's iconic musical comedy about life, love and marriage.
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Testimonies: Four Plays
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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Collected Stories
A play exploring the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from another person's life.
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Dogeaters
A hard-hitting play about the Philippines in the Marcos era, adapted by Jessica Hagedorn from her own novel of the same name.
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Talk
In the age of McCarthy and the Beat poets, a controversial African-American artist, Archer Aymes, became an overnight sensation with his first book, Mother and Son. Ten years later he was found dead in a prison cell.
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Intimate Apparel & Fabulation: Two Plays
Two companion pieces spanning 100 years in the lives of African American women.
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