Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Papatango Plays
Three Prize-Winning Plays
Three urgent and compelling plays, joint winners of the 2021 New Writing Prize awarded by acclaimed theatre company Papatango, in partnership with English Touring Theatre.
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Old Bridge
An epic love story exploring the impact of a war that Europe forgot, and the love and loss of those who lived through it. Winner of the 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Slave Play
A play that rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America.
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Dorian
A thrilling stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, following one man's descent from glorious debauchery to epic self-destruction.
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A subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Good Life
A witty reimagining of a television classic for the stage, with a wellyful of laughs that's sure to delight audiences everywhere.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79White Noise
An unflinching look at race in the 21st century from both a black and white perspective, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
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Yellowfin
By Marek HornPolitics and the planet collide in a fiercely original play about the limits of science, the power of myths, and the things we can't control.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Long Song (stage version)
By Andrea Levy Adapted by Suhayla El-BushraThe story of a young slave girl who lives through the final turbulent days of slavery on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica. Adapted from Andrea Levy's award-winning novel.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Metamorphoses
An entertaining and provocative new play inspired by Ovid's powerful collection of myths.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Duck Duck Goose
A viscerally charged play, full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Normal Heart
By Larry KramerLarry Kramer's ground-breaking play about the 1980s AIDS crisis, published in a new edition alongside the major National Theatre revival in 2021.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Emilia
A riotous, witty reclaiming of the life of Emilia Bassano, poet, mistress, mother, and exceptional woman – widely considered the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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What If If Only
Your partner's died, could things have been different? A short play by Caryl Churchill, published with another short piece, Air.
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A raw, funny, bittersweet play about the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.
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A resonant and surreal short piece published alongside What If If Only.
Published in volume What If If OnlyMum
A raw and real exploration of early motherhood, from the award-winning writer of Emilia.
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Anything is Possible if You Think About It Hard Enough
A moving and unexpectedly funny play about a couple grieving the loss of their child, winner of the Best New Play award at the 2022 Offies (Off West End Awards).
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