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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

By Travis Alabanza, Firdos Ali, Natasha Gordon, debbie tucker green, Arinzé Kene and Chinonyerem Odimba Selected by Natalie Ibu

An anthology of six brilliant plays, celebrating a multiplicity of stories authored by Black playwrights in the UK over the last decade. Selected and introduced by leading theatre director Natalie Ibu.

The Lodger

The Lodger

By Robert Holman

An enlightening, cathartic and acerbic new play about identity, maturity and reconciliation.

Glee & Me

Glee & Me

By Stuart Slade

A touching drama about a teenage girl diagnosed with a brain tumour, an unexpectedly optimistic portrayal of love and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.

Burgerz

Burgerz

By Travis Alabanza

A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.

 

Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers
    40 Days

    40 Days

    By Firdos Ali

    A play exploring the impact of state violence on Black and brown children.

    Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers
      Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia

      Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia

      By Josh Azouz

      A brutally comic play about home and identity, marriage and survival, blood and feathers.

      Rockets and Blue Lights

      Rockets and Blue Lights

      By Winsome Pinnock

      The Alfred Fagon Award-winning play that retells British history through the prism of the slave trade.

      2:22 – A Ghost Story

      2:22 – A Ghost Story

      By Danny Robins

      A spine-chilling, funny and scary play from the award-winning writer and broadcaster behind the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist.

      Big Big Sky

      Big Big Sky

      By Tom Wells

      A beautifully tender new play that explores nature's influence on love, friendship and family – the belief that anyone who's lost can be found, even in the remotest of places.

      Black Love

      Black Love

      By Chinonyerem Odimba

      An explosion of form-busting storytelling, combining real-life stories, imagined worlds, and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage.

      Hungry

      Hungry

      By Chris Bush

      A play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.

      Medicine & The Same: two plays

      Medicine & The Same: two plays

      By Enda Walsh

      Two plays by Enda Walsh: Medicine, a dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'; and The Same, about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.

      Still

      Still

      By Frances Poet

      Frances Poet's play is a cathartic story of life, loss and joy, full of tenderness and humour, as five Edinburgh souls stagger towards each other and are transformed.

      Medicine

      Medicine

      By Enda Walsh

      A dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.

      Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays
        The Same

        The Same

        By Enda Walsh

        A play about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.

        Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays
          Lava

          Lava

          By Benedict Lombe

          One woman's journey into her own past becomes inextricably linked with the tides of global history in this wickedly funny, strikingly lyrical and explosive debut play. Winner of the 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

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          By babirye bukilwa

          A psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them – and the climate around them – is hostile?

          Bach & Sons

          Bach & Sons

          By Nina Raine

          A beautiful, profound and funny play about Johann Sebastian Bach, the irascible and turbulent composer, and his family business.

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