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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Plays from VAULT 3

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.

The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

MALAPROP: plays

MALAPROP: plays

By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP Theatre

Four 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.

The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A 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.

The Floating Island Plays

The Floating Island Plays

By Eduardo Machado

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

Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise

By Harry Kondoleon

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

Full Moon and other plays

By Reynolds Price

Three plays delicately exploring issues of love, faith, family and race.

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Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

By Jon Robin Baitz

‘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

Bone Songs

By André Gregory

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

Hedda

By Lucy Kirkwood Original author Henrik Ibsen

A startling new version of Hedda Gabler, relocating Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine to London in 2008.

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Apologia

Apologia

By Alexi Kaye Campbell

A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children.

No Romance

No Romance

By Nancy Harris

A tender and funny tale about our secret selves, and our search for connection in a fractured world.

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Ghetto

Ghetto

By Joshua Sobol Adapted by David Lan

The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.

The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

By Eugene O'Neill

An ominous play set in a cruel world of dark realism, an acknowledged masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

By Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart

A bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre.

Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue

Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue

By Rona Munro

Two plays, from the award-winning author Rona Munro.

The Shakespeare Revue

The Shakespeare Revue

By Christopher Luscombe and Malcolm McKee

An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Separate Tables

Separate Tables

By Terence Rattigan

Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth.

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