Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Black Love
An explosion of form-busting storytelling, combining real-life stories, imagined worlds, and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage.
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By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha DugdaleA worm's eye view of post-Communist Russia.
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Blackthorn
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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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEPUB£10.99£8.79Bleak Expectations (stage version)
By Mark EvansA hilarious, chaotic, Dickensian caper for the stage, based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEPUB£10.99£8.79Bleeding Heart
A short dark comedy from Spain, in which a naive middle-aged transvestite encounters a petty thief nicknamed 'sour face'.
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The Blinding Light
A powerful play about the life of playwright August Strindberg, focusing on what he called his 'Inferno' period, when he suffered a notorious breakdown in Paris in 1896.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Bliss
By Olivier Choinière Translated by Caryl ChurchillA wild and slippery fantasy from French-Canadian writer Olivier Choinière, translated by Caryl Churchill, exploring our insatiable appetite for private lives made public.
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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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Blood and Ice
By Liz LochheadRenowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.
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A heart-warming and belly-achingly funny story about falling in love for the very first time.
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A short play about the protests at Greenham Common, a political landmark in the fight for nuclear disarmament.
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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
Blue Heart
Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights.
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By Clare BayleyAn exhilarating, challenging new play by Amnesty Award-winning playwright Clare Bayley.
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A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage.
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A play about the human cost of surrogacy, and what we’ll overlook to get what we want.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Bold Girls
By Rona MunroA sharply funny, moving play set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and celebrating women’s strength under siege.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEPUB£10.99£8.79Boleros for the Disenchanted and other plays
By José RiveraFour new plays that interweave love and politics, from the screenwriter of The Motorcycle Diaries.
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