Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Freak
A punchy and provocative new play by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen.
Free Outgoing
4f 3m (3f 2m possible with doubling)A play that sets the rampant technology of the modern world against the conservatism of a traditional society. The British debut of a writer from Chennai, India.
From Both Hips
By Mark O'Rowe4f 2mA gripping drama about revenge and absolution, from the award-winning author of Howie the Rookie.
Fucking Feminists
5f (flexible casting, written for an all-female cast of roughly 5 actors)A fiercely funny short play by Rose Lewenstein, investigating what feminism means, and what it has become.
Fugue
By Rona Munro3fA psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & FugueThe Funeral Director
By Iman Qureshi2f 2mAn incisive and heartfelt play about sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. Winner of the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Fury
3f 2mA chilling and powerful modern Medea about motherhood and class.
Futureproof
By Lynda Radley5f 2mA magical and deeply compassionate play about identity and the capacities of the human spirit.
Game
7f 6m (plus one boy)A provocative play that invites us to spy on a family as they embark on a dangerous new way to live.
The Gatekeeper
By Chloë Moss3f 2mA darkly comic play about the disintegration of a family get-together.
The Gathered Leaves
5f 6mA moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997.
generations
4f 3mA 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...
Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
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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