Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Honour

An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter.

Terrorism

The extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia.

Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.

Bombshells

Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life.

Days of Wine and Roses (stage version)

JP Miller's 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, adapted brilliantly for the stage by Owen McCafferty.

Midnight (stage version)

An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

The Winterling

A comedy thriller from the author of the Olivier Award-winning Jerusalem.

Cruising

A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

The award-winning play that follows one man's desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the 21st century.

Girls and Dolls

A striking play from Northern Ireland about two women and the childhood tragedy they'll never be allowed to forget.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (stage version)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover.

Mogadishu

A gripping and urgent play about a well-meaning teacher who intervenes on behalf of a troublesome student, with terrifying consequences.

Wuthering Heights (stage version)

An eminently actable, and readable, version of the well-loved story about a passionate but doomed love affair, one of the most famous and enduring love stories in the English language.

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My Child

A 'tug-of-love' drama, in which a divorced father kidnaps his child - with unexpected consequences.

Sex with a Stranger

Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be in your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain.

The Gatekeeper

A darkly comic play about the disintegration of a family get-together.

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Low Level Panic

A funny, unapologetic play about the effects of society's objectification of women.

The Knot of the Heart

A grippingly insightful play about a young woman whose social drug habit has got disastrously out of control.