Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Run Sister Run
A witty and heartfelt play about two sisters, exploring family, class and dependence.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39seeds
By Mel PennantA play about two mothers united in sorrow, sharing the hardship of protecting their sons – one in life, and one in death.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Antlia Pneumatica
A haunting tale of loss and friendship, blurring the lines between the real and surreal, from the author of Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play.
- Paperback£18.99
How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
By Sarah RuhlA deliciously adventurous play that confronts the question of whether monogamy is enough to ensure a happy marriage.
- Paperback£18.99
Plays for the Public
A volume of plays by the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
- Paperback£24.99
Concord Floral
The Decameron meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in a supernatural thriller of suburban teenagers fleeing a mysterious plague, from an award-winning Canadian playwright.
- Paperback£22.99
Mother's Daughter
By Kate HennigThe stunning third part of Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker Trilogy, retelling the stories of three Tudor queens of England, in contemporary settings.
- Paperback£22.99
The Virgin Trial
By Kate HennigThe second part of Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker Trilogy, retelling the stories of three Tudor queens of England, in contemporary settings.
- Paperback£22.99
Other Side of the Game
A debut play by a Canadian playwright, giving voices to Black women who organise communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and do battle with institutions. Winner of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award.
- Paperback£22.99
Unholy
By Diane FlacksA play about the intersetion of faith and misogyny, asking if you can be a feminist as well as a believer.
- Paperback£22.99
Meat
A play about class, consent and transgressions buried in the past, set over the course of one winesoaked evening in a Dublin restaurant.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call
By Friedrich Dürrenmatt Adapted by Tony KushnerDürrenmatt's visionary revenge play, one of the great achievements of modern German-language theatre, transported to mid-twentieth-century America by the acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Something Awful
A thrilling play inspired by the true-crime story of the Slenderman.
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£4.99£3.99
Second Home
A play exploring the experiences of growing up mixed-race in twenty-first century Ireland.
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£4.99£3.99
Madame Ovary
The heartbreaking and hilarious true story of the author's own experience of ovarian cancer.
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£4.99£3.99
Take Care
An astonishing, tragic and uplifting verbatim play about the care system in the UK today.
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£4.99£3.99
Heroes
By Isabel DixonA poignant exploration of fallen idols, family secrets and the human price of forgiveness.
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£4.99£3.99
Wuthering Heights (stage version)
By Emily Brontë Adapted by Andrew SheridanA ferocious, wild and utterly exhilarating adaptation of Emily Brontë's indelible masterpiece.
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