Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Bunny
An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.
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A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.
Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British WritersBurkas and Bacon Butties
By Shamia Chalabi and Sarah HenleyA heart-warming, clash-of-cultures comedy set in a Wigan taxi.
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Burning Bridges
By Amy ShindlerA love triangle with a dangerous twist, this moving and funny play explores the everyday dilemmas of a young woman living with autism.
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A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov.
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£8.99£7.19Add to basketEPUB£8.99£7.19Burying Your Brother in the Pavement
By Jack ThorneA play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99Jez Butterworth Plays: One
Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem.
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£18.99£15.19Add to basketEPUB£18.99£15.19Jez Butterworth Plays: Two
Three extraordinary plays by one of the most audacious and talented playwrights of our times: Jerusalem, The River and The Ferryman. Plus his short film The Clear Road Ahead, and a conversation with playwright Simon Stephens.
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By Lynn NottageA hilarious satire of race in the glamorous days of Old Hollywood, told via the life of a fictional African-American movie star. From the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Canada on Stage: Scenes and Monologues
Edited by Iris Turcott and Keith TurnbullAn overview of contemporary Canadian theatre for just about any occasion, drawn from 50 plays with an exhilarating diversity of aesthetics, styles, techniques, themes, voices and vocabularies.
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Cancelling Socrates
A provocative and witty play about an uncompromising voice in dangerous times.
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By Stuart SladeA searingly funny debut play about death, betrayal, and the possibility of forgiveness. And cider.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99The Canterbury Tales (stage version)
By Geoffrey Chaucer Adapted by Mike PoultonA landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEPUB£10.99£8.79Captain Corelli's Mandolin (stage version)
By Louis de Bernières Adapted by Rona MunroRona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernières' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.
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By Sergi Belbel Translated by John LondonAn acclaimed Catalan drama that presesnt a disturbing picture of contemporary Western society set against a background of urban alienation and violence.
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Cariad
A raucous comedy and a compelling story about secrets, memory, history and 'cariad' - Welsh for love, beloved one, darling.
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Caroline, or Change (US edition)
By Tony Kushner By (composer) Jeanine TesoriThe book and lyrics of the extraordinary musical theatre hit from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
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Caroline, or Change
By Tony Kushner By (composer) Jeanine TesoriThe book and lyrics of the extraordinary musical from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
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