Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Nightclub

A short play about three very different women at a gay nightclub in Orlando, who are caught up in a terrifying hate crime.

Fucking Feminists

A fiercely funny short play by Rose Lewenstein, investigating what feminism means, and what it has become.

Tituba

Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.

The Road to Huntsville

A short play about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line.

White Lead

A short play exploring the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.

What is the Custom of Your Grief?

A short play by Timberlake Wertenbaker about an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan.

Leave Taking

Two generations. Three incredible women. An epic story of what we leave behind in order to find home.

The Strange Death of John Doe

A powerful and poignant drama about the search for the identity of a young man whose body is found face down in a suburban street.

Killer Joe

A tense thriller that asks where the moral line is drawn in the fight for survival.

Sex with Robots and Other Devices

A fearless examination of the future of sex, and a fascinating vision of where humanity could be heading next.

Borders

An urgent, moving and occasionally hilarious play about the migrant crisis and the politics of the Middle East.

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The Assassination of Katie Hopkins

A smart, witty new musical by Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth about truth, celebrity and public outrage.

Grotty & Brute: Two Plays

Two unflinching plays from exciting new writer and performer, Izzy Tennyson.

Grotty

A dark and savage play exploring the London lesbian scene. 

Brute

A solo show about a rather twisted schoolgirl.

Nine Night

A touching and very funny exploration of the rituals of family, set amidst a traditional Jamaican Nine Night wake.

The Fall

A funny, moving and candid look at young people's relationships to older people, confronting the frightening prospect of ageing in a country undergoing crises of housing and care.

Not Talking

A gripping and lyrical play from the Olivier award-winning writer, examining what happens if we live a life of not talking.