Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Kitchen Sink

2f 3m

An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes.

The Knot of the Heart

4f 1m

A grippingly insightful play about a young woman whose social drug habit has got disastrously out of control.

La BĂȘte

5f 5m plus extras

An 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 extras

A 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

3f 4m

A tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine.

Lagan

2f 2m, doubling

A 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

14f 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 4m

A serious comedy from the author of East is East, about the dying breed of Anglo-Indians living in Calcutta in 1985.

Last Easter

3f 2m

A funny, moving and provocative drama about the true nature of friendship.

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