Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Protection
A tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and the people who have to pick up the pieces.
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£9.99£7.99
The People Next Door
A black comedy about the post-9/11 world and what happens when someone else's global problem becomes your local one.
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An unsettling and unpredictable drama about the love-hate chemistry that endures between friends.
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The Fire This Time
African-American Plays for the 21st Century
Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Robert AlexanderA collection of African-American plays for the 21st century.
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Luna Park: short plays and monologues
A collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, featuring three decades' worth of short plays, one-acts and monologues.
- Paperback£16.99
Duck
A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Thebans
By Liz LochheadThe Ancient myths of the Kingdom of Thebes re-told by Scotland's foremost poet/dramatist.
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£9.99£7.99
Playing the Victim
By The Presnyakov Brothers Translated by Sasha DugdaleA darkly absurd play from the authors of Terrorism.
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I.D.
By Antony SherAn enthralling drama about the man who killed Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of South African apartheid.
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The Maths Tutor
A wry and incisive play exposing how our desire for a normal family life and our fears about adults, young people and sex, can sometimes outride the truth.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma
By Gustave Flaubert Adapted by Fay WeldonFlaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the well-known novelist Fay Weldon.
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£8.99£7.19
Gilt
An exciting innovation: three of Scotland's top playwrights combine forces on a single play - staged by 7:84 Scotland in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.
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£10.99£8.79
Airsick
By Emma FrostA turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.
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A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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£10.99£8.79
Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic version)
By Rufus NorrisThe classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.
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£9.99£7.99
Loyal Women
A gripping and explosive drama from the multi-award winning playwright.
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£10.99£8.79
Prelude to a Kiss and other plays
By Craig LucasA collection of work by one of America's most important and influential playwrights.
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References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot and other plays
By José RiveraThree surreal plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, author of Marisol.
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