Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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A Breakfast of Eels

2m

An intense, elusive, and quietly beautiful play about a family crisis.

Breed

2f 3m

A sharp and savage play about the animals we are and the people we try to be.

Bright. Young. Things.

7f 8f/m

A funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are. Part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books, aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre.

Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)

4-6f 16-26m (plus non-speaking extras)

The second part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.

    Britannia Waves the Rules

    2f 3-8m

    An arresting and angry look at conflict and its effect on soldiers returning home.

    Broken Biscuits

    2f 1m

    A beautiful, heart-warming, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story for our times.

    Brontë

    4f 2m doubling

    A compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Brontë sisters - dramatised by Polly Teale and Shared Experience, the team behind After Mrs Rochester and Jane Eyre.

    Brothers of Thunder

    3m

    A play about forgiveness, reconciliation and the role of the church in the modern world.

    Brute

    1f, plus 5f 1m voice-overs

    A solo show about a rather twisted schoolgirl.

    BU21

    3f 3m

    Six young people are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the heart of London. By turns terrifying, inspiring, brutal, heartbreaking and hilarious, BU21 is verbatim theatre from the very near future.

    buckets

    Any number of actors, m or f

    Wry, emotive, funny and heartfelt, buckets is a play with a unique perspective on a universal dilemma: how do you deal with the fact that time always runs out?

    Buggy Baby

    2f 3m

    A horror comedy about trying to build a normal life when nothing about life is normal.

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    Henrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard Eyre

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    Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey