Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
How Love Is Spelt
A fresh, funny and playful tale of growing up and finding yourself in the city.
How My Light Is Spent
By Alan Harris1f 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
By Enda Walsh2mA 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
By Ian McHugh1f 2mA spellbinding debut play about 17-year-olds on the edge, with a touch of magic and mayhem.
How to Date a Feminist
1-3f 1-3mA 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
By Fin Kennedy2f 3m doublingThe 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
3fA 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
2fA tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, staged at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.
Howie the Rookie
By Mark O'Rowe2mA white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable.
Hue & Cry
2mA 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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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