Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia

2f 4m

A brutally comic play about home and identity, marriage and survival, blood and feathers.

The One

2f 1m

A viciously funny play about a couple trapped in a destructive cycle of love and lust. Winner of the 2013 Verity Bargate Award.

One Day All This Will Come to Nothing

2f 4m doubling

A dark, twisted, captivating play about living with loss.

One Fine Day

1f 6m

A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

    One For Sorrow

    3f 2m

    Following an attack on London, a family let a stranger into their house. Cordelia Lynn's play explores community and the limits of tolerance.

    One Good Beating

    1f 2m

    A blackly comic short play about a grown-up brother and sister who exact revenge on their violent father.

    One Jewish Boy

    1f 1m (both playing ages 20-34)

    A bittersweet comedy addressing anti-Semitism through one young family's struggle against prejudice.

    One Thousand and One

    3f 1m

    A short play from the author of Mr Incredible and Where Do Little Birds Go?.

    Published in volume Mr Incredible

      Open

      2m

      A frank, refreshing romance that draws on interviews, conversation and private correspondence to explore the authors' real-life open marriage.

      Orca

      3f 2m

      An incisive, unflinching insight into what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable. Winner of the 2016 Papatango New Writing Prize.

      Orchids in the Moonlight

      2f 1m plus extras

      Set in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play by a leading Mexican writer stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.

      Original Death Rabbit

      1f (playing early thirties)

      A painfully funny play, shining a light on one woman's struggle with the dark side of the internet

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      Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey