Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
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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New Music: a trilogy
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.
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Jelly's Last Jam
The hit Broadway musical based on the life of the jazz great, Jelly Roll Morton.
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Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead
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
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
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
Two of cult American performer Eric Bogosian's most unsettling works: Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World.
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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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Time Stands Still
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
Six plays about women, crime and justice
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.
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By Mark O'RoweFive plays from the sensational voice of new writing for Irish theatre.
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Edited by Elyse Dodgson and Mary PeateA 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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By Kevin ElyotA collection of plays from the acclaimed author of My Night With Reg, spanning twenty years of work from a playwright who brilliantly captured the comedy of pain.
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Edited by Elyse DodgsonA unique collection of five surprising and exciting plays from Mexico, in English translations, selected by the Royal Court Theatre, London.
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Liz Lochhead: Five Plays
By Liz LochheadFive 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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An unforgettable journey across time and generations.
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