Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Kitchen Sink
An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes.
The Knot of the Heart
4f 1mA grippingly insightful play about a young woman whose social drug habit has got disastrously out of control.
La BĂȘte
By David Hirson5f 5m plus extrasAn exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art.
Ladies Down Under
4f 2m (doubling, or up to 9m)The funny, heart-warming sequel to the enormously successful Ladies' Day, following the lasses from Hull on their adventures down under.
Ladies Unleashed
6-8f plus optional extrasA moving comedy for the stage, about friendship, growing older and living for today, reuniting the characters from the smash-hit plays Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under.
Ladies' Day
4f 1m (doubling, or up to 6m)Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda. But their fortunes are set to change when Linda finds tickets to Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot the year it relocated to York.
Lady Dealer
1f (additional cast possible, up to 2f 3m)A mile-a-minute, one-person poem play about a young female drug dealer, exploring forgiveness, the exhaustion of trying, and mistaking self-destruction for self-preservation. Premiered at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Ladybird
By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha Dugdale3f 4mA tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine.
Lagan
By Stacey Gregg2f 2m, doublingA kaleidoscope of stories from post-Troubles Belfast, Lagan is an intimate and absorbing dramatic portrait of a city with a past like no other.
Landmines
By Phil Davies14f 11m plus 11f/m (can be performed by 8f 5m)A stark, fast-paced and fraught play about political upheaval and the media's relationship with civil violence and terrorism in modern Britain. In the Multiplay Drama series.
Last Dance at Dum Dum
4f 4mA serious comedy from the author of East is East, about the dying breed of Anglo-Indians living in Calcutta in 1985.
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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