Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Dublin Carol

A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.

Duck

A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin. 

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Duck Duck Goose

A viscerally charged play, full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media.

Duecentomila

A touching play about two teenagers exploring their queer identities.

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Duologue

Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.

Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

    Dusk Rings A Bell

    A beautifully crafted play from the American playwright, author of Tape and associate writer of The Laramie Project, whose events are echoed in this play.

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    A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural

    The classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, and Joachim Neugroschel.

    ear for eye

    Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.

    Earthquakes in London

    An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.

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    East Coast Chicken Supper

    A scabrously funny look at 'young enterprise' in modern Scotland.

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    East is East

    A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

    East/West Quartet

    Four plays - spanning a decade - from the leading Chinese-American playwright.

    Echoes

    A bloody tale of colonialism – ancient and modern – and the rhyme of history. Part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.

    Ecstasy

    A play about loneliness, togetherness, longing, warmth and love.

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    Edgar & Annabel

    An Orwellian dystopian fable about a group of freedom fighters attempting to stand up to a repressive regime, while being continuously subjected to surveillance.

    Edgar: Shorts

    A collection of shorter plays from stage and television by one of the UK's foremost political playwrights.

    Educating Agnes

    A dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely.

    Education, Education, Education

    A theatrical love letter to the schools of the 1990s, asking big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies. Full of inventive theatricality and irreverent humour.