Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Steel
A play exploring the last three decades of women in politics, asking what's changed and what still must.
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An acerbic new comedy about four forty-somethings wrestling for school places for their children.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Caterpillar
By Alison CarrA darkly funny, searing and tender drama about those moments when we find ourselves teetering on the edge.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Humans
A powerful comedy-drama about a family gathering at Thanksgiving, from a gifted young American playwright.
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The Prisoner
By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène EstienneA provocative study of what it means to be free, by the internationally acclaimed theatre director and his long-time collaborator.
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£7.99£6.39Add to basketEbook£7.99£6.39Drip Feed
By Karen CoganAn infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.
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£4.99£3.99
The Half Of It
By Karen CoganA darkly lyrical monologue about a life, lived unseen. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award in 2018.
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£4.99£3.99
Homos, or Everyone in America
A raw and provocative portrait of a love story, exploding attitudes, emotions and prejudices that sit at the heart of relationships across the world.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79How to Spot an Alien
A play for young people (age five and up) to watch, read and perform, about one confused alien, two brave kids and a busted spaceship.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Drip Feed & The Half Of It: Two Plays
By Karen CoganTwo rich and startling monologues from award-winning actor and playwright Karen Cogan.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Blackthorn
A contemporary, lyrical love story that explores the changes and choices that pull us from the places and people we love.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Political History of Smack and Crack
By Ed EdwardsAn angry and passionate play chronicling the fallout for communities crushed by the heroin epidemic at the height of Thatcherism.
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By Iseult Golden and David HoranFunny, heartbreaking and beautifully observed, CLASS is an award-winning play about learning difficulties: in school, in life, wherever.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Fishermen (stage version)
By Chigozie Obioma Adapted by Gbolahan ObisesanA powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate set in a small Nigerian town. Adapted from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Huff & Stitch: two plays
Two gritty, powerful solo shows from award-winning Indigenous Canadian playwright Cliff Cardinal, exploring the lives of marginalized characters.
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Interruptions
A boldly innovative drama exploring ideas about democracy, politics and leadership.
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£5.99£4.79
Finsbury Park
A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.
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£2.99£2.39
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