Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Cressida

A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

Arabian Nights (Young Vic stage version)

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

In Praise of Love

An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer.

Albert Speer

A panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.

War and Peace (stage version)

A magnificent two-play epic, adapted from Tolstoy's novel and first staged by Shared Experience.

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Abandonment

A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist.

Mother Teresa is Dead

A gripping play exploring Western guilt towards the Third World, from an author well-known for her award-winning adaptations for Shared Experience and the National Theatre.

Iron

An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them.

After Mrs Rochester

A dramatisation of the extraordinary life of Jean Rhys, in which themes of femininity, literature and hysteria and madness collide with vivid force.

Duck

A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin. 

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Thebans

The Ancient myths of the Kingdom of Thebes re-told by Scotland's foremost poet/dramatist.

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Gilt

An exciting innovation: three of Scotland's top playwrights combine forces on a single play - staged by 7:84 Scotland in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.

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Olivia Hirst & David Byrne

Amanda Whittington

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13–18 May 2024
Wharf Theatre, Devizes