Modern Drama

A funny, touching and at times savage portrait of a family loosing its grip, examining the fate of the revolutionary generation.

A sharp comedy about power games and privacy in the media and beyond.

A play about the private and disturbing moments a couple share, exploring what becomes of a relationship when it is held together not only by love, but by fear, guilt and despair.

A darkly comic drama of buried secrets and new beginnings, with three linked scenes all set in the same terraced house.

By turns dark and shimmering, Moth is a fast, funny and heartbreaking story about two young people with nowhere to go.

Coincidences, omens and vision collide with political reality in this epic new play by the award-winning Mike Bartlett.

The powerful debut play from Alexi Kaye Campbell, examining changing attitudes to sexuality.

The cult hit first seen at the Royal Court, a slick and violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the 1950s. The hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem.

An arresting and angry look at conflict and its effect on soldiers returning home.

An inventive, fast-paced comedy based featuring P.G. Wodehouse’s iconic double act.

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

A deliciously funny and bittersweet comedy that captures the fragility of friendship, happiness and life itself. Winner of the Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Comedy.

A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy.

An adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy novels for award-winning theatre company Complicite.

A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

Wry, emotive, funny and heartfelt, buckets is a play with a unique perspective on a universal dilemma: how do you deal with the fact that time always runs out?

A play about a group of young women seeking to form a new type of society and a better way of living. Part of Platform, a series of big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.

A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited.