Modern Drama

An epic and incendiary thriller about the Gunpowder Plot, weaving together the lives of kings, terrorists, priests and spies.

A landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature.

A touching play about adolescent friendship.

A 'greatest hits' volume by one of the best-known gay playwrights in the US.

A satirical comedy of modern manners set in contemporary Dublin. Joint winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for 2006-07.

Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.

A collection of plays by the award-winning American playwright Sarah Ruhl, a dramatist with 'a unique comic voice, perspective and sense of theatre' Variety.

The hit Broadway play, filmed in 2008 with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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

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

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

A revered modern classic about life in a working-class suburb of Nottingham in the closing days of World War II.

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

A fast and furious drama of misunderstandings, about three people who desperately want to be loved.

A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

A laugh-out-loud comic variation on the virgin birth.

The story of post-war Britain and its love-hate relationship with Europe, recounted as a thrilling, fast-moving epic of machiavellian politics and private heartbreak.

Three remarkable short plays for one (female) actor.