Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Gorgeous Avatar
A wry, tender and fantastical story of love and loneliness in the digital age.
Grace
A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.
The Grain Store
A play about a small rural community that dares to stand up to Stalin as he launches the first of his Five-Year Plans.
The Grand Old Opera House Hotel
5f 2m doubling (much larger cast possible)An uplifting ensemble comedy set to some of the most popular opera songs ever written. Premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and Dundee Rep.
Great Expectations (RSC stage version)
7f 16m, doubling possibleA gritty adaptation of Dickens' least sentimental love story with a cast of some of his most unforgettable characters.
Great Expectations (stage version)
By Charles Dickens Adapted by Jo Clifford6f 9m (doubling)Jo Clifford's beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels brings it thrillingly to life for the stage.
Growth
By Luke Norris1-8f 2-9mA painful comedy about growing up and manning up.
The Guid Sisters
15fGermaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.
Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other playsGuidesky and I
1f 2mA funny and poignant drama about loneliness and the opportunity for connection, first performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.
Published in volume Inside/Outside
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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