Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
A modern classic about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England - retold by Scotland's most popular playwright.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Dracula (stage version)
By Bram Stoker Adapted by Liz LochheadAcclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39When the Rain Stops Falling
A heartrending drama about family, betrayal and forgiveness, spanning four generations and two hemispheres. From the writer of the award-winning film Lantana.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Melville Boys
By Norm FosterOwen and Lee Melville arrive at a lakeside cabin for a weekend of fishing, but their plans are thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters who become catalysts for a tenderly funny and unsentimental look at four lives in transition.
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Skin & Liars: Two Plays
By Dennis FoonTwo plays from one of Canada's leading writers and directors of theatre for young people.
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Staging Coyote's Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English
Edited by Monique Mojica and Ric KnowlesStaging Coyote's Dream brings together ten major plays by First Nations playwrights living in Canada and the United States.
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Modern Jewish Plays
Edited by Jason ShermanSix plays, six playwrights, six takes on Israel...
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Danny, King of the Basement
A heartwarming play about a boy who creates an imaginary world to deal with the instability and hardship of his daily life.
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Cold Meat Party
By Brad FraserA play about a group of former friends reuniting in a B&B for a funeral.
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Love and Human Remains
By Brad FraserA violent and sexually explicit study of young adults groping for meaning in a senseless world.
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Apologia
A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19David Copperfield (stage version)
By Charles Dickens Adapted by Alastair CordingOne of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Death of Long Pig
By Nigel PlanerTwo great artists - Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin - confront their own mortality in the strange and supernatural Polynesian islands they made their home.
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Eight
By Ella HicksonEight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Jerusalem
Jez Butterworth's hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Homebody/Kabul
By Tony KushnerA devastating play about Afghanistan and its long, tortured relationship with the West, from the author of Angels in America.
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Little Gem
A poignant and hilarious play about love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes, following three generations of women over one extraordinary year.
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