Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Drip Feed

1f

An infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.

The Drunks

3f 16m doubling (large cast possible)

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

Dry Powder

1f 3m

A razor-sharp comedy about the people who shape – and skew – the economy.

Dublin Carol

1f 2m

A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.

Duck

3f 3m, doubling

A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin. 

Duck Duck Goose

2f 4m with specified doubling

A viscerally charged play, full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media.

Duologue

1f

Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.

Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

    Dusk Rings A Bell

    1f 1m

    A beautifully crafted play from the American playwright, author of Tape and associate writer of The Laramie Project, whose events are echoed in this play.

    ear for eye

    8f 8m doubling (very large cast possible)

    Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.

    Earthquakes in London

    7f 10m, doubling, large cast possible

    An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.

    East Coast Chicken Supper

    4m

    A scabrously funny look at 'young enterprise' in modern Scotland.

    East is East

    3f 7m

    A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

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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