Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Gorgeous Avatar

2f 2m

A wry, tender and fantastical story of love and loneliness in the digital age.

Got to be Happy

2f 2m

A poignant and tender-hearted play set in a pub kitchen.

Grace

4f 4m

A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.

The Grain Store

9f 16m

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 possible

A gritty adaptation of Dickens' least sentimental love story with a cast of some of his most unforgettable characters.

Great Expectations (stage version)

6f 9m (doubling)

Jo Clifford's beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels brings it thrillingly to life for the stage.

Grotty

5f, doubling (9f)

A dark and savage play exploring the London lesbian scene. 

Growth

1-8f 2-9m

A painful comedy about growing up and manning up.

The Guid Sisters

15f

Germaine 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.

    Guidesky and I

    1f 2m

    A 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

      Gunter

      4+ performers

      The hit play about deception, witchcraft and football, winner of a Fringe First at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, then at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

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      Bill Bryson, Adapted by Tim Whitnall

      Fin Kennedy

      Amanda Whittington

      Alexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate Summerscale

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      Henrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard Eyre

      Tom Wells

      Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey