Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Favour

4f

A touching and hopeful family drama about a working-class Muslim family, tackling duty, addiction and the challenge of pulling yourself back together after it all falls apart.

Feed the Beast

5f 7m doubling (large cast possible)

A fiercely funny look at the rocky relations between our press and politicians in a world of spin doctors and phone hacking.

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

1m

A dark and biting one-man, a huge hit at Edinburgh in 2022 and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023, starring Samuel Barnett.

Felt Effects

3f 2m

A play that unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.

Published in volume Fair & Felt Effects: two plays

    The Female of the Species

    3f 3m

    A deliciously wicked comedy that proves that the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male.

    The Ferryman

    8f 13m

    Preparations for the annual harvest on a farm in County Armagh in the 1980s are interrupted by a visitor. Winner of the Evening Standard Theatre Award and Tony Award for Best Play, and the Critics' Circle, Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Play.

    The Fever Syndrome

    3-4f 5m

    A vivid and thrilling play about a pioneering and successful IVF innovator and his brilliantly dysfunctional family.

    Fibres

    2f 2m

    A big-hearted, hilarious drama about what it means to entwine our lives with another, told by four resilient, witty Glaswegian characters.

    Finsbury Park

    1m

    A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.

    Firebird

    2f 1m

    A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited.

    First Person Shooter

    1f 3m

    A funny and foreboding play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide.

    First Time

    1m (playing age early 30s)

    A hilarious and heartbreaking true story that smashes through the stigma and shame of HIV, to present an uplifting and inspirational guide to staying positive in a negative world.

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    Henrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard Eyre

    Tom Wells

    Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey