Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Boys and Girls
A play in verse following four young people across one night in Dublin.
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£3.99£3.19
Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane
A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.
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£3.99£3.19
The Changing Room
A play about being a teenager, written specifically for young people, part of the 2018 National Theatre Connections Festival.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Citysong and other plays
The Verity Bargate Award-winning play about three generations of a Dublin family, plus two other plays: Boys and Girls and Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39The Starry Messenger
A bittersweet exploration of love, hope and the mysteries of the cosmos.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59ANNA
By Ella HicksonA radical play set in East Berlin in 1968, unfolding with all the tension of a spy thriller and the inexorable revelations of an Ibsen drama.
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£10.99£8.79
Lose Yourself
A fast and wild ride into the darker side of our celebrity obsessed culture.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.991972: The Future of Sex
A devised play about three couples having sex for the first time – and a country on the brink of a sexual awakening.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Jude
A modern-day tale of unexpected genius and of our struggle to accommodate extraordinary talent, loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Three Musketeers (stage version)
By John Nicholson and Le Navet BeteA riotously comic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, originally performed by physical-comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Three Short Plays
Three short plays by one of the most inventive dramatists working today, each written in response to political events.
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£8.99£7.19
Small Island (English Mastery Secondary set text)
By Andrea Levy Adapted by Helen EdmundsonA stage version of Andrea Levy's epic novel tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain - set text edition for the English Mastery Secondary programme.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Ghost Stories (stage version)
By Jeremy Dyson and Andy NymanThe terrifying stageplay and worldwide cult phenomenon about a Professor of Parapsychology whose rationality is tested to breaking point – and beyond.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Blister
By Laura LomasA tense relationship drama which examines how the effects of one moment can ripple through a galaxy of lives. In the Multiplay Drama series.
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£7.99£6.39
Blue
A disquieting and darkly funny play which shines a light on the state of mental-health services in modern Britain. In the Multiplay Drama series.
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£7.99£6.39
katzenmusik
By Tom FowlerA darkly comic story about social inequality and upheaval, told in reverse. In the Multiplay Drama series.
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£7.99£6.39
Landmines
By Phil DaviesA stark, fast-paced and fraught play about political upheaval and the media's relationship with civil violence and terrorism in modern Britain. In the Multiplay Drama series.
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£7.99£6.39
The Real Estate
A sharply observed, epic play combining elements of social realism and satire, which asks: who do our homes really belong to, and who gets to tell our stories? In the Multiplay Drama series.
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£7.99£6.39
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