Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Too Much World at Once

2f 2m (plus optional ensemble)

An urgent coming-of-age story for our times, a lyrical, theatrical journey that spans continents and lives.

Touch

2f 4m

A shamelessly funny and brutally honest play about sex, connection and control.

Touched

7f 3m

A revered modern classic about life in a working-class suburb of Nottingham in the closing days of World War II.

trade

3f

A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays

    Travelling Light

    4f 9m, plus 1 boy, doubling

    A funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age.

    Travesty

    1f 1m

    The debut play by Liam Williams, double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee - about gender and the ethical dimensions of modern love.

    Treasure Island (stage version)

    10m doubling (large cast possible)

    A fresh and genuinely thrilling adaptation of the classic tale, and one that keeps close to Stevenson's original story.

    Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete stage version)

    4m doubling (or a mixed cast playing 26 characters)

    A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.

    The Tree of Knowledge

    1f 2m

    A wildly imaginative, hilariously provocative and deeply moving play from one of Scotland's most important playwrights.

    Treetops

    4f 4m

    A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.

    Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

      Trestle

      1f 1m

      A tender but truthful exploration of love and ageing, asking how we choose to live in the face of soaring life expectancies. Winner of the 2017 Papatango New Writing Prize.

      The Trials

      2f 1m plus 12m/f (playing teenage jurors, flexible casting)

      A searing play set in a near-future world, where those responsible for the climate emergency are being judged by a younger generation.

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      Bill Bryson, Adapted by Tim Whitnall

      Fin Kennedy

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      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