Modern drama (post-1945)

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A high-voltage portrait of a late-night shock jock, made into a film by Oliver Stone.

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A mock documentary that puts Hwang himself centre-stage as he uses the controversy over colour-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American.

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subUrbia

By Eric Bogosian

An updated version of Bogosian's theatrical tour de force.

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Shipwrecked!

By Donald Margulies

A story about the nature of storytelling, based on a Victorian hoaxer's tale of being a castaway in the South Pacific - complete with buried treasure, a giant killer octopus, and cannibals.

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Penelope

By Enda Walsh

A savage, tragicomic take on the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus.

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The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays

By Fin Kennedy

Tender, uncompromising, haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a contemporary chronicle of the lives of East London's young women.

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Anne Boleyn

By Howard Brenton

A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history.

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Scottish Shorts

Edited by Philip Howard

A collection of nine very different short plays by three remarkable generations of Scottish writers, ideal performance in studio theatres and at festivals.

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While You Lie

By Sam Holcroft

A blistering play about our need for honesty in relationships and how it can sometimes bring about their downfall.

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Speechless

By Linda Brogan and Polly Teale

The true-life drama of the extraordinary bond between two identical twin girls and their struggle to find a voice.

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Bunny

By Jack Thorne

An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.

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By Carl Hancock Rux

A sharp and perceptive play from Carl Hancock Rux, a multidisciplinary artist born in Harlem, New York, whose trademark craft is to combine poetry, music, theatre and dance.

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Beyond Victims and Villains

Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights

Edited by Victoria Ann Lewis

The first of its kind - an anthology that explores how disabled artists depict the world they inhabit with their disabilities.

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Plays From the Boom Box Galaxy

Edited by Kim Euell and Robert Alexander

An anthology of performance texts from the hip-hop generation.

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Mrs. Packard

By Emily Mann

Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum. Based on true-life historical events, Emily Mann's play tells of one woman's enduring struggle to reform an unfair and ineffectual system.

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Prayer For My Enemy

By Craig Lucas

Billy has returned from Iraq, to discover that his pregnant sister Marianne has married his friend and former lover Tad. Meanwhile, his mother Karen struggles daily to keep her husband Austin from falling off the wagon, and in the backdrop are the Red Sox and Yankees battling it out for the 2004 pennant.