Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Genesis Inc.

5f 4m, doubling (12f 9m 8f/m), plus voice-overs

An explosively funny comedy that takes a closer look at the lengths to which people will go to defy biology – and at the moral compass of an industry that trades on fear and hope.

Germ Free Adolescent

1f 1m (playing age sixteen)

A fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway?

German Skerries

1f 3m

An uplifting portrait of human hope and vulnerability, weaving resonant drama out of a friendship, a marriage, a holiday, and a death.

Ghost Stories from an Old Country

1f 3m

A riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us, threaded through with captivating fables. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Published in volume Papatango Plays

    The Giant

    12m

    A powerful, witty and moving play exploring the dark interplay between sexuality and creativity.

    Giant

    3f 3m plus 1m voice only

    A stage play exploring the life and legacy of that fiendishly charismatic icon, Roald Dahl. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2024 and transferring to the West End in 2025. Winner of Best New Play at both the Olivier and Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.

    The Gift

    4-6f 2-4m

    An outrageous play about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea.

    Gigi & Dar

    3f 1m

    A comic tragedy about what we bury in order to survive. Premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024.

    Gilt

    3f 4m

    An exciting innovation: three of Scotland's top playwrights combine forces on a single play - staged by 7:84 Scotland in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.

    The Ginger Ale Boy

    5f 5m

    Walsh's very first, previously unpublished play, is a Cork cabaret about a ventriloquist who loses control.

    Girl in the Machine

    1f 1m 1f or m

    A disturbing but compassionate vision of our potential digital future, and what it might mean for 'life' as we know it.

    A Girl's Bedroom

    1f

    A short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.

    Published in volume Arlington

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