Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia
A brutally comic play about home and identity, marriage and survival, blood and feathers.
The One
By Vicky Jones2f 1mA 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 doublingA dark, twisted, captivating play about living with loss.
One Fine Day
1f 6mA play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five PlaysOne For Sorrow
3f 2mFollowing 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
By Linda McLean1f 2mA 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 1mA short play from the author of Mr Incredible and Where Do Little Birds Go?.
Published in volume Mr IncredibleOpen
By Christopher Adams and Timothy Allsop2mA frank, refreshing romance that draws on interviews, conversation and private correspondence to explore the authors' real-life open marriage.
Orca
By Matt Grinter3f 2mAn incisive, unflinching insight into what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable. Winner of the 2016 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Orchids in the Moonlight
By Carlos Fuentes Translated by Sebastian Doggart2f 1m plus extrasSet in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play by a leading Mexican writer stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.
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Amateur Productions
On Now & Coming SoonBill Bryson, Adapted by Tim WhitnallFin KennedyAmanda WhittingtonAlexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate SummerscaleAmanda WhittingtonHenrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard EyreTom WellsJeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey