Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Cressida
A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.
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A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.
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£12.99£10.39
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.
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Albert Speer
By David EdgarA 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.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39War and Peace (stage version)
By Leo Tolstoy Adapted by Helen EdmundsonA magnificent two-play epic, adapted from Tolstoy's novel and first staged by Shared Experience.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39Abandonment
A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Mother 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.
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Iron
By Rona MunroAn 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.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39After Mrs Rochester
By Polly TealeA dramatisation of the extraordinary life of Jean Rhys, in which themes of femininity, literature and hysteria and madness collide with vivid force.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Duck
A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39Thebans
By Liz LochheadThe 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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£12.99£10.39
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