Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Urinetown: The Musical
A grand, mischevious story set in a dystopian future. Winner of three Tony Awards including Best Book of a Musical.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEPUB£10.99£8.79The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays
By Fin KennedyTender, uncompromising, haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a contemporary chronicle of the lives of East London's young women.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEPUB£14.99£11.99The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping
By Fin KennedyA bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.
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The Unthinkable
By Steve WatersA hard-hitting play about the collapse of idealism in contemporary politics.
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Unsuspecting Susan
A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.
Published in volume Singular Female VoicesUnscorched
By Luke OwenA courageous and convincing play that sensitively tackles the important subject of child abuse. Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize 2013.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99The Unreturning
By Anna JordanA compelling drama that explores the profound effect that war has on young lives.
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By Mary Kelly and Maureen WhiteA touching and frequently hilarious play about three women whose lives are touched by breast cancer.
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The Unravelling
By Fin KennedyA Fringe First Award-winning fable about the power of mythology to change your life.
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The Unmanageable Sisters
By Michel Tremblay Adapted by Deirdre KinahanA funny and furious new version of Michel Tremblay’s fêted Québécoise comedy, Les Belles-Soeurs.
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A poignant and life-affirming play about the extraordinary powers of female friendship.
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By Diane FlacksA play about the intersetion of faith and misogyny, asking if you can be a feminist as well as a believer.
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Undesirable Elements
Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater
By Ping ChongA collection celebrating twenty years of Undesirable Elements, the series of community-specific theatre works that examines the lives of people living cultures, either by choice or circumstance.
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Under the Blue Sky
A triptych of love stories in a play about unrequited affection, obsession, sex, and the possibility of being happy.
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Unbroken
A radical, modern-day re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler’s taboo-breaking 1897 play La Ronde, with its 'daisy chain' of sexual encounters.
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Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater
Includes essays and playscripts: The Cure, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, Symphony of Rats, What Did He See? and Lava, with a Foreword by Peter Sellars
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Ugly Lies the Bone
An honest and funny play about a wounded veteran seeking rehabilitation through an experimental virtual reality therapy, from an award-winning American playwright.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEPUB£9.99£7.99The Tyler Sisters
A funny, heartening exploration of time, and the unassuming moments that make up our lives.
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