Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Miseryguts

By Liz Lochhead Original author Molière

A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.

Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

    The Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

    A variation on the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty, by the 'master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

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    The Night Heron

    A dark, funny, spellbinding play about a group of outcasts and eccentrics gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens.

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    Vincent in Brixton

    A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway.

    Julie Burchill Is Away

    A one-woman show based on the life and writings of the provocative columnist, writer and broadcaster, Julie Burchill.

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    Mother Teresa is Dead

    A gripping play exploring Western guilt towards the Third World, from an author well-known for her award-winning adaptations for Shared Experience and the National Theatre.

    Iron

    An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them.

    Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

    A monologue by a master of the art - 100% pure high octane Bogosian.

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    Closing Time

    McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.

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    The Browning Version

    Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage.

    Harlequinade

    A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.

    Published in volume The Browning Version

      Homers

      A tough and funny play about Glaswegian orphans forcibly transplanted to the Islands.

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      Habitat

      Janet and her mother Margaret both live on Mapleview Lanes - the perfect neighbourhood with the perfect neighbours, until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open a group home for troubled adolescents.

      Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

      Three astute, savvy early plays from Belfast writer Owen McCafferty.

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      The Waiting List

      A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

      Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

        I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

        An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.

        Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

          I, Claudia

          A touching and funny play about a girl on the cusp of adolescence.

          Einstein's Gift

          A Canadian play based on the life and work of Nobel Laureate Dr Fritz. Haber, who risked everything for a country that never accepted him, but used his work to murder millions.

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