Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Crocodiles

2f (aged 37 and 52) 2m (aged 30 and 35)

Lee Mattinson's extraordinary play, bringing to life a dystopian, modern-fairytale town where fact and fiction weave as tightly and snag as easily as granny's knitting.

Crossings

1f 1m, doubling (3f 1m)

A play with live music, waltzing and unexpected connections, exploring how we return, resettle and adapt.

The Crown Jewels

3-6f 5-9m

A riotous comedy based on the scarcely believable true story of the greatest heist of all time: the theft of the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. From the creator of TV's Men Behaving Badly and The Durrells.

Cruising

3-5f 2-6m

A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

Crush: The Musical

11-12f 1-2m

An outrageously fun musical set in an all-girls school in the 60s, from the team behind Bad Girls: The Musical.

Crushed Shells and Mud

2f 3m

A play about conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties in a world trembling in the grip of a devastating epidemic.

Cuba

15f 4m, 1f or m

A play written for young people to perform, about two schoolgirls and their daring response to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Custom of the Country

3f 10m

Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

    Cyrano

    2f 1m plus 3f/m

    A joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic play, first performed by Melbourne Theatre Company, and a hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to Park Theatre, London.

    Damage

    5f 5m

    A play from Morocco, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.

    Dancing Bears

    3f or m plus 1m

    A short play laying bare the twisted loyalties and violence in teenage gangs.

    Dara

    7f 15m, doubling (10f+ 32m+)

    An intense domestic drama of global consequence – for India then and for our world now.

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