Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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LORENZO

1m

A life-affirming story about the messiness of ageing and dying. Winner of a Fringe First award at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.

Lose Yourself

1f 2m

A fast and wild ride into the darker side of our celebrity obsessed culture.

Losing Venice

3-8f, 5-9m

An epic fable set in the faraway Spanish Golden Age, about the deranged behaviour of countries that have lost an empire and still not yet found a role.

Lost

1f 1m

The second play in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly.

    The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

    1f

    The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

    Published in volume Singular Female Voices

      The Lottie Project (stage version)

      4f 2m doubling

      An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

      Love and Other Acts of Violence

      1f 2m plus 2 boys

      A subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history.

      Love in a Glass Jar

      1f 1m

      A short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.

      Published in volume Irish Shorts

        Love the Sinner

        2f 10-14m

        A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.

        Love Upon the Throne

        2m

        A gleefully comic retelling of the Charles and Diana story, designed to be performed by two (male) actors.

        Love, Lies and Taxidermy

        1f 2m, many more roles of either gender

        An offbeat love story about Mr Tutti Frutti, a stuffed owl and the struggle to fit in.

        Love, Love, Love

        2f 3m doubling (max. 5f 6m)

        Are baby boomers to blame for the fact that their children's generation is debt-ridden and adrift? Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.

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        Bill Bryson, Adapted by Tim Whitnall

        Fin Kennedy

        Amanda Whittington

        Alexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate Summerscale

        Amanda Whittington


        Henrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard Eyre

        Tom Wells

        Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey