Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Resistance Trilogy
Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by the author.
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Bad Weather
A play about freedom, guilt and the possibility of redemption, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Mizlansky/Zilinsky
A play about the desperate cases lurking unsuccessfully on the fringes of the movie world.
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Scotland Plays
New Scottish Drama
A collection of seven plays by Scottish writers, selected and introduced by Philip Howard, artistic director of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.
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Set in and around an Amish Community in the Autumn of 1917.
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A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural
By Tony Kushner and Joachim NeugroschelThe classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, and Joachim Neugroschel.
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Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground charts, in diary form, the life of an urban recluse who desperately wants to belong to society but instead inhabits a hell of his own creation.
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Love Upon the Throne
A gleefully comic retelling of the Charles and Diana story, designed to be performed by two (male) actors.
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A collection of plays from the American writer whose screenplays include Hair and Ragtime.
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The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
Volume II
Thornton Wilder's short plays, published for the first time in two volumes.
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Collected Stories
A play exploring the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from another person's life.
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What I Meant Was
By Craig LucasA major collection from one of the most popular gay playwrights in America.
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Insurrection: Holding History
An African-American graduate student is transported back through time, with his 189-year-old grandfather, to Nat Turner's infamous slave rebellion.
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Howie the Rookie
By Mark O'RoweA white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable.
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By Liz LochheadA funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Family: three plays
A triptych of short plays on the theme of family from three generations of Scottish writers.
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A short play about an old couple whose son returns after years of absence.
Published in volume Family: three playsThe Visitor
A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.
Published in volume Family: three plays
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