Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Drip Feed
An infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.
The Drunks
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
A razor-sharp comedy about the people who shape – and skew – the economy.
Dublin Carol
1f 2mA magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.
Duck
3f 3m, doublingA sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin.
Duck Duck Goose
2f 4m with specified doublingA viscerally charged play, full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media.
Duologue
1fTerence 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 DuologueDusk Rings A Bell
1f 1mA 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 possibleAn 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.
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Amateur Productions
On Now & Coming SoonBill Bryson, Adapted by Tim WhitnallFin KennedyAmanda WhittingtonAlexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate SummerscaleAmanda WhittingtonHenrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard EyreTom WellsJeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey