Modern Drama

A joyful and irreverent comedy about Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny, celebrating music, family and – at last – the work of a composer overlooked because of her sex.

A two-part play presenting two distinct moments in the life of Mary Bell, the eleven-year-old Newcastle girl who was convicted of the manslaughter of two toddlers in 1968.

A smouldering adaptation of Thomas Hardy's enduring novel about a spirited and feisty young woman who finds herself playing mistress in a man's world.

A profoundly moving play about a young Ugandan boy's journey from childhood innocence to child soldier, seen through the eyes of those that love him and those that betray him.

A stage play based on the true story of six of Germany's top nuclear scientists, detained at a stately home in the Cambridge countryside in the summer of 1945, with no idea that their every word is being overheard.

An ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

A powerful play about the growing culture of human exploitation in the UK, delving below the surface to reveal a personal account of life as a migrant worker.

A short play about a young mother's inability to cope with separation from her daughter.

A gripping play about the man who murdered Mahatma Gandhi, premiered at the National Theatre, London.

A razor-sharp new comedy that exposes the dilemmas of working in charity today and asks whether doing good is always the same as being good.

A radical reworking of Christopher Marlowe's classic tragedy Dr Faustus, bringing together the original story of the man who sells his soul to the devil with a startling act of provocation by 21st-century artists the Chapman Brothers.

A radical reimagining of the classic cautionary tale, transforming the iconic character of Faustus into a woman who makes the ultimate sacrifice and sells her soul to wrestle control of her own destiny.