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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Daughters of the Revolution

Daughters of the Revolution

By David Edgar

A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays
    David Copperfield

    David Copperfield (stage version)

    By Charles Dickens Adapted by Alastair Cording

    One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

    The Day I Stood Still

    The Day I Stood Still

    By Kevin Elyot

    A poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg, about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories.

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    Days of Wine and Roses

    Days of Wine and Roses (stage version)

    By Owen McCafferty

    JP Miller's 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, adapted brilliantly for the stage by Owen McCafferty.

    Dead Dad Dog

    Dead Dad Dog

    By John McKay

    An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.

    Published in volume Scot-Free
      Dead Man's Cell Phone

      Dead Man's Cell Phone

      By Sarah Ruhl

      A play about a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

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      Dealing with Clair

      Dealing with Clair

      By Martin Crimp

      A satire on yuppie moral and emotional bankruptcy and a bleak, black comedy thriller.

      Dean McBride

      Dean McBride

      By Sonya Hale

      A vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.

      Dear Evan Hansen: The Complete Book and Lyrics

      Dear Evan Hansen: The Complete Book and Lyrics (West End edition)

      By Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

      A new edition of the hugely successful musical, published alongside its West End premiere. 

      Dear Lupin

      Dear Lupin (stage version)

      By Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer Adapted by Michael Simkins

      Michael Simkins' immensely charming stage adaptation of Dear Lupin, the witty and touching collection of letters from a father to his son that became a huge bestseller, winner of The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year.

      Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays

      Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays

      By Tony Kushner

      A wide-ranging collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.

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      Death and the Maiden

      Death and the Maiden

      By Ariel Dorfman

      A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.

      Death of a Cyclist

      Death of a Cyclist

      By Steve Waters

      A poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.

      Death of Long Pig

      Death of Long Pig

      By Nigel Planer

      Two great artists - Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin - confront their own mortality in the strange and supernatural Polynesian islands they made their home.

      Decade

      Decade

      Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.

      By various

      Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.

      The Deep Blue Sea

      The Deep Blue Sea

      By Terence Rattigan

      Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.

      Defiance

      Defiance

      By John Patrick Shanley

      A timely play tackling issues of race and authority within the US Marine Corps - part of a trilogy of plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt, that explore issues of power and morality within a hallowed American institution.

      Delirium

      Delirium

      By Enda Walsh

      A radical re-interpretation of The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's classic and compelling tale of family rivalries.

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