Modern Drama

A dark and disturbing portrait of mental illness, and its effects on a young family.

Jessica Swale's play Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain’s most celebrated actress, and her hard-won place in the heart of the king.

A fable about the moral and environmental cost of our materialistic nesting instincts.

An explosive, savagely funny first play by Deborah Frances-White, comedian, screenwriter and host of the global hit podcast The Guilty Feminist.

A fascinating portrait of Harold Macmillan in an epic play about the decline of British fortunes in the middle of the twentieth century.

A dark fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life, from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.

A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope.

An epic, panoramic play about how the political fault-line has been redrawn. Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Headlong in 2024.

An inimitably warm and stylish play that deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations.

A dark, funny, spellbinding play about a group of outcasts and eccentrics gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens.

The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

Three siblings plot to kill their parents in this controversial masterpiece from a major Cuban poet and playwright.