Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

1m

An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.

Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

    I.D.

    2f 10m doubling (over 30 characters)

    An enthralling drama about the man who killed Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of South African apartheid.

    The Iceman Cometh

    3f 16m

    An ominous play set in a cruel world of dark realism, an acknowledged masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

    Idyll

    1 performer (or more)

    A captivating short play about rural Britain, premiered by Pentabus Theatre in 2021.

    If Only

    2f 2m

    A gripping, Coalition-set drama from one of the UK's top political playwrights.

    Ignorance/Jahiliyyah

    2f 3m (doubling)

    An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.

    Image of an Unknown Young Woman

    5-6f 1m, plus 2 f or m

    A startlingly theatrical look at what happens when a politically inflammatory video goes viral and it all kicks off.

    Immaculate

    2f 4m

    A laugh-out-loud comic variation on the virgin birth.

    Imperium: The Cicero Plays

    4f 19m, doubling (100+ characters)

    A backstage view of Ancient Rome at its most bloody and brutal, adapted by Mike Poulton from Robert Harris's bestselling The Cicero Trilogy.

    The Importance of Being Alfred

    3m

    A short play about Lord Alfred Douglas, the former lover of Oscar Wilde, and his latter years as the supporter of a prominent homophobe.

    Improbable Frequency

    2f 4m doubling

    The smash-hit musical comedy of spies, double agents and the laws of improbability.

    In a Little World of Our Own

    1f 4m

    A powerful drama about how the conflict in Northern Ireland affects whole families, and of how the violence of the streets is brought into the heart of the home.

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      Henrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard Eyre

      Tom Wells

      Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey