Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
A Night in November
The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.
misterman (2001 edition)
A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.
Tartuffe
A rollicking Scots version of Molière's classic of political satire and black comedy.
Mongoose
A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.
Cold Comfort
A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.
Brazil
A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.
Jordan
A short play that tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy, Jordan, rather than have him taken away by his abusive father.
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.
Unsuspecting Susan
A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.
On Insomnia and Midnight
In a mountain hotel an ailing guest and nervous chambermaid strike up an uneasy friendship.
The Sánchez Huerta Girl Killed Herself
After a young girl's suicide, her parents meet for the first time in years at the school where she died.
