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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Quiet in the Land
Set in and around an Amish Community in the Autumn of 1917.
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A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural
The 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
Two of cult American performer Eric Bogosian's most unsettling works: Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World.
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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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Michael Weller: Five Plays
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.
- Paperback£14.99
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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Perfect Days
By Liz LochheadA funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.
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Family: three plays
A triptych of short plays on the theme of family from three generations of Scottish writers.
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Acts
A short play about an old couple whose son returns after years of absence.
Published in volume Family: three plays
The 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
The Monument
A powerful play exploring the ambiguities of morality and justice in a time of war when a young soldier is convicted of war crimes.
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