Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Last Witch

A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart.

Days of Wine and Roses (stage version)

JP Miller's 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, adapted brilliantly for the stage by Owen McCafferty.

The Grain Store

A play about a small rural community that dares to stand up to Stalin as he launches the first of his Five-Year Plans.

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The Drunks

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

2nd May 1997

A play set on the day that New Labour swept into government, telling three deeply personal stories of euphoria and despair.

Speaking in Tongues

A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana.

it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now

A play about modern-day sex trafficking, joint winner of the 2010 John Whiting Award.

Blood and Ice

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.

A Tender Thing

Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story.

Mrs Klein

A play about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships.

Arabian Nights (RSC stage version)

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

Salt

A modern morality tale about the corrosive effect of money, joint winner of the 2008 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.

Cling To Me Like Ivy

A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.

Disconnect

An urgent exposé of the realities behind the international call centre.

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What We Know

A funny, painful and deeply moving play about loss - and cooking.

The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

Three multifaceted works exploring the urgency and complexity of the Middle East’s political landscape, through the voices and bodies of the people who inhabit it.

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Road Show

Sondheim's Obie-Award-winning musical telling the real-life story of the Mizner brothers, following their fortunes from the 1890s Alaskan gold rush to the 1920s land boom.

Arthur & George (stage version)

The gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective.

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