Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Yous Two
A moving portrayal of the conflict between personal aspiration and familial responsibility, and what happens when those you should depend on need you more than you need them.
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By Rona MunroTwo plays from the award-winning author Rona Munro.
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Your Turn to Clean the Stair
By Rona MunroA comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & FugueYou, Me and Wii
By Sue TownsendA short play by the author of the Adrian Mole books, set in a council house in a small Leicestershire town at election time.
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You Stupid Darkness!
By Sam SteinerAn urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart.
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Yen
By Anna JordanAnna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own.
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A mock documentary that puts Hwang himself centre-stage as he uses the controversy over colour-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American.
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Wuthering Heights (2020 stage version)
By Emily Brontë Adapted by Andrew SheridanA ferocious, wild and utterly exhilarating adaptation of Emily Brontë's indelible masterpiece.
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Wuthering Heights (2011 stage version)
By Emily Brontë Adapted by Lucy GoughAn eminently actable, and readable, version of the well-loved story about a passionate but doomed love affair, one of the most famous and enduring love stories in the English language.
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Written on the Heart
By David EdgarAn enthralling historical drama about the creation of the King James Bible, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to mark its four-hundredth anniversary.
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Writer's Cramp
By John ByrneThe debut play from the author of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti, taking satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions.
Published in volume Scot-FreeThe Writer
By Ella HicksonA young writer challenges the status quo but discovers that creative gain comes at a personal cost.
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A rich selection of work from the late 1970s and 1980s, introduced by the playwright.
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An ex-teacher and an ex-junkie meet on a night bus during long, dark nights of homelessness.
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Woyzeck
By Georg Büchner Adapted by Jack ThorneThe multi-award-winning Jack Thorne breathes new life into Georg Büchner's existential masterpiece, Woyzeck, one of the most extraordinary plays ever written.
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A poetic and heart-rending play written in response to the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
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World Music
By Steve WatersA subtle and topical play about European attitudes to Africa.
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World Factory: The Game
By Zoë Svendsen and Simon DawA participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play – as individuals or in teams – the managers of a clothing factory in China.
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