Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Mary Shelley
A biographical play about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Premiered by Shared Experience.
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By Nina RaineA hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.
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By Elinor CookA startlingly theatrical look at what happens when a politically inflammatory video goes viral and it all kicks off.
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By Luke NorrisA play about what can happen when nothing happens, a compassionate look at young lives cut short and a touching portrait of childhood friendships under strain in adult life.
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The debut play by Liam Williams, double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee - about gender and the ethical dimensions of modern love.
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By Henry NaylorThree timely one-act plays, showing the brutal and bloody impact of the current Middle Eastern crisis on ordinary people: The Collector, Echoes and Angel.
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By J. T. RogersA darkly funny political thriller, winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play.
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The Approach
By Mark O'RoweBoth psychological puzzle and quietly devastating tragedy, Mark O'Rowe's The Approach explores the inner lives of three women as they desperately try to make sense of their world.
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Two unflinching plays from exciting new writer and performer, Izzy Tennyson.
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By Ed EdwardsAn angry and passionate play chronicling the fallout for communities crushed by the heroin epidemic at the height of Thatcherism.
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Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.
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A bittersweet comedy addressing anti-Semitism through one young family's struggle against prejudice.
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15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
By variousDrawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.
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A hilarious and heartbreaking true story that smashes through the stigma and shame of HIV, to present an uplifting and inspirational guide to staying positive in a negative world.
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By Franz Xaver Kroetz Translated by Roger DowneyThree plays from the controversial German playwright whose works have helped reshape world drama.
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The Rug Merchants of Chaos and other plays
Three astonishingly original, provocative, scathingly funny plays from the Obie award-winning American writer.
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Pride's Crossing
By Tina HoweA play about Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel.
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