Modern Drama

Peepolykus bring their exhilarating combination of verbal slapstick, visual surprise and anarchic comedy to Gustave Flaubert's seminal nineteenth-century masterpiece Madame Bovary.

A wry and incisive play exposing how our desire for a normal family life and our fears about adults, young people and sex, can sometimes outride the truth.

David Edgar's landmark play about the twenty-somethings who came of age in 1968 and were drawn into revolutionary politics. Revised version staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2018.

An ethereal family drama exploring rebirth in the aftermath of tragedy.

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

Giles Terera's powerful debut play about Olaudah Equiano and the historical movement to abolish slavery – a timely response to the social upheaval the world has witnessed in recent years.

A play about class, consent and transgressions buried in the past, set over the course of one winesoaked evening in a Dublin restaurant.

A dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.

A short play commissioned and performed as part of The Fairer Sex, a series of play readings at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in June 2009.

A touching family tale about resentment and forgiveness on the night before a wedding.

A play about division, destiny and the undimmed potency of memory itself.

A thrilling two-hander that looks at the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, the growing argument between rich and poor, and a young woman stuck in between.