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Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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A Strange Loop

A blistering original musical about a young artist at war with a host of demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards.

The Strange Death of John Doe

A powerful and poignant drama about the search for the identity of a young man whose body is found face down in a suburban street.

Straight White Men & Untitled Feminist Show: two plays

Two compassionately subversive plays about identity, by Young Jean Lee, a Korean American playwright whose work is groundbreaking, humorous and often thrillingly transgressive.

Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.

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Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran

Four plays from leading Iranian dramatists, translated into English for the first time: Aurash, The Death of the King, Stories from the Rains of Love and Death and Interrogation.

Stories

A funny and touching new play about the fertilisation of an idea.

Storefront Church

A compassionate morality tale about a elected official in the Bronx forced into a confrontation by the mortgage crisis, Storefront Church is the concluding part of John Patrick Shanley's 'Church and State' trilogy of plays.

Stop/Over

A night of debauchery and delicate connection in a play set in the city that never sleeps.

Stoopud Fucken Animals

A pitch-black comedy complete with wickedly entertaining songs, from the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning writer of Food.

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stoning mary

Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology.

Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays

Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, and an earlier monologue A Night in November.

Stones in His Pockets

Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.

    Stolen Secrets

    From the heart of London's East End, Stolen Secrets are urban fairytales, bold, lyrical and gruesome, that can be performed individually or together for maximum shock value.

    Still

    Frances Poet's play is a cathartic story of life, loss and joy, full of tenderness and humour, as five Edinburgh souls stagger towards each other and are transformed.

    Steel

    A play exploring the last three decades of women in politics, asking what's changed and what still must.

    The Steamie

    A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.

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      Staying Alive

      A darkly funny and achingly tender play about the death of a child.

      Start Swimming

      A play about occupation, revolution and what the future holds for today’s youth.