Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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How Love Is Spelt

3f 3m

A fresh, funny and playful tale of growing up and finding yourself in the city.

How My Light Is Spent

1f 1m, doubling (flexible casting, large cast possible)

A funny, hopeful play about loneliness, longing and being left behind. Winner of the Judges' Award in the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

How These Desperate Men Talk

2m

A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

How To Be A Kid

2f 1m, doubling (large cast possible)

A touching and funny story of family, friends and fitting in, How To Be A Kid is ideal for seven- to eleven-year-olds to watch, read and perform.

How To Curse

1f 2m

A spellbinding debut play about 17-year-olds on the edge, with a touch of magic and mayhem.

How to Date a Feminist

1-3f 1-3m

A hilarious new spin on the Hollywood romcom featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters.

How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

2f 3m doubling

The award-winning play that follows one man's desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the 21st century.

How to Not Sink

3f

A short play by Georgia Christou that looks at duty, love and dependency across three generations of women.

How to Spot an Alien

2f 1m, doubling (1f playing 5 roles)

A play for young people (age five and up) to watch, read and perform, about one confused alien, two brave kids and a busted spaceship.

How We Begin

2f

A tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, staged at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.

Howie the Rookie

2m

A white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable.

Hue & Cry

2m

A short play in which two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.

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Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey