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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Fat Ham

Fat Ham

By James Ijames

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' play reinvents Shakespeare's Hamlet in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.

Fatal Light

Fatal Light

By Chloë Moss

A short play about a young mother's inability to cope with separation from her daughter.

The Father and the Assassin

The Father and the Assassin

By Anupama Chandrasekhar

A gripping play about the man who murdered Mahatma Gandhi, premiered at the National Theatre, London.

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

By Suzan-Lori Parks

An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights.

Fault Lines

Fault Lines

By Ali Taylor

A razor-sharp new comedy that exposes the dilemmas of working in charity today and asks whether doing good is always the same as being good.

Faustus

Faustus

By Rupert Goold, Ben Power and Christopher Marlowe

A radical reworking of Christopher Marlowe's classic tragedy Dr Faustus, bringing together the original story of the man who sells his soul to the devil with a startling act of provocation by 21st-century artists the Chapman Brothers.

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Faustus: That Damned Woman

Faustus: That Damned Woman

By Chris Bush

A radical reimagining of the classic cautionary tale, transforming the iconic character of Faustus into a woman who makes the ultimate sacrifice and sells her soul to wrestle control of her own destiny.

Favour

Favour

By Ambreen Razia

A touching and hopeful family drama about a working-class Muslim family, tackling duty, addiction and the challenge of pulling yourself back together after it all falls apart.

Feed the Beast

Feed the Beast

By Steve Thompson

A fiercely funny look at the rocky relations between our press and politicians in a world of spin doctors and phone hacking.

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Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

By Marcelo Dos Santos

A new edition of the dark and biting one-man show starring Samuel Barnett at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.

Felt Effects

Felt Effects

By Joy Wilkinson

A play that unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.

Published in volume Fair & Felt Effects: two plays
    The Female of the Species

    The Female of the Species

    By Joanna Murray-Smith

    A deliciously wicked comedy that proves that the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male.

    Fences

    Fences

    By August Wilson

    A landmark play about a baseball star fighting for the right to be first black man to drive a garbage truck in 1950s Pittsburgh.

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    The Ferryman

    The Ferryman

    By Jez Butterworth

    Preparations for the annual harvest on a farm in County Armagh in the 1980s are interrupted by a visitor. Winner of the Evening Standard Theatre Award and Tony Award for Best Play, and the Critics' Circle, Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Play.

    The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

    The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

    By Naomi Wallace

    Three multifaceted works exploring the urgency and complexity of the Middle East’s political landscape, through the voices and bodies of the people who inhabit it.

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    The Fever Syndrome

    The Fever Syndrome

    By Alexis Zegerman

    A vivid and thrilling play about a pioneeringa and successful IVF innovator and his brilliantly dysfunctional family.

    Fibres

    Fibres

    By Frances Poet

    A big-hearted, hilarious drama about what it means to entwine our lives with another, told by four resilient, witty Glaswegian characters.

    Fifty Words

    Fifty Words

    By Michael Weller

    A searingly honest, beautifully observed portrait of marriage.

    Published in volume Loving Longing Leaving
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