Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Tiger Country

5f 5m doubling (large cast possible)

A hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.

Till the Stars Come Down

6f 4m

A heartbreaking and hilarious portrayal of a larger-than-life family struggling to come to terms with a changing world.

Tilt

2f 1m

A beautifully simple debut play, about a woman's search for answers to her family's self destruction.

The Time Machine: A Comedy

1f 2m (plus 1-2 extras)

A fast-paced, wise-cracking, riotous play, loosely based on H.G. Wells's masterpiece, that zips from the nineteenth century to the end of the world, and (with any luck) back again.

Time Spent on Trains

1f 1m

A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.

Published in volume Fishskin Trousers

    A Time to Keep

    40+ (115 characters) - alternative version 9f 9m

    A large-scale historical romp in the terrain between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

    A Time to Reap

    1f 2m

    A play that follows one woman from a Polish village to the bright lights of London, exploring the issue of abortion and the Catholic Church.

    Tinderbox

    1f 4m

    A fast, wild and farcically funny play with a disturbing vision of a dystopian future.

    Tituba

    1f

    Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.

    To Sir, With Love (stage version)

    8f 8m (plus extras)

    An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain. 

    Today

    5-6f 7-9m

    From a Cambridge college to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self in the midst of a shifting, uncertain world.

    Tomcat

    3f 2m (the main character is 12 years old)

    Winner of the 2015 Papatango New Writing Prize, Tomcat is a play set in a future world where diseases and disorders have been wiped out. How far will we go to keep humanity healthy?

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    Bill Bryson, Adapted by Tim Whitnall

    Fin Kennedy

    Amanda Whittington

    Alexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate Summerscale

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    Henrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard Eyre

    Tom Wells

    Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey