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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Judge's Wife

The Judge's Wife

By Caryl Churchill

A short play about justice and retribution, first seen as a BBC television drama.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
    Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen

    Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen

    By Caryl Churchill

    A short play set in a dystopian future, where a couple in a tower block hide from the violence and pollution outside.

    Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
      Abortive

      Abortive

      By Caryl Churchill

      A couple in bed discuss the effect on them of the woman's recent abortion.

      Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
        Caryl Churchill Plays: Four

        Caryl Churchill Plays: Four

        By Caryl Churchill

        The fourth volume of the collected plays of one of the best playwrights alive.

        Cherry Blossom

        Cherry Blossom

        By Catherine Grosvenor

        A play about the myths, ideas and realities of migration and identity in the twenty-first century.

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        Mine

        Mine

        By Polly Teale

        A haunting drama about adoption, premiered by Shared Experience.

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        The Girlfriend Experience

        The Girlfriend Experience

        By Alecky Blythe

        A true-life play about friendship, heartbreak and business enterprise... in a seaside brothel.

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        Delirium

        Delirium

        By Enda Walsh

        A radical re-interpretation of The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's classic and compelling tale of family rivalries.

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        The Convict's Opera

        The Convict's Opera

        By Stephen Jeffreys

        The world's first ever musical, The Beggar's Opera, is performed on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.

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        Six Acts of Love

        Six Acts of Love

        By Ioanna Anderson

        A bittersweet play about the rich complexities of life, love and death.

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        St Petersburg and other plays

        St Petersburg and other plays

        By Declan Feenan

        Three haunting, elliptical plays by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.

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        Lucky Seven

        Lucky Seven

        By Alexis Zegerman

        A comedy about growing up, class, love, disappointment and hope, inspired by the Seven Up television series.

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        Rank

        Rank

        By Robert Massey

        A darkly comic thriller set in the grim, seething and sometimes hilarious criminal world of Dublin's suburbs.

        Limbo

        Limbo

        By Declan Feenan

        A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.

        Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays
          Catherine Medbh

          Catherine Medbh

          By Declan Feenan

          A bittersweet and hesitant duologue in a bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers.

          Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays
            St Petersburg

            St Petersburg

            By Declan Feenan

            A haunting, elliptical play by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.

            Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays
              Overspill

              Overspill

              By Ali Taylor

              A poetic, explosive thriller about three young men on a night out that ends in violence.

              Antigone

              Antigone

              By Sophocles Adapted by Owen McCafferty

              A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.

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