Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Pronoun

5f 4m, 5 f or m

A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean - commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

Protection

7f 4m

A tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and the people who have to pick up the pieces.

The Pull of Negative Gravity

2f 2m

Shocking and beautiful, a powerful play about the impact of a soldier's injury in a foreign conflict on his family back home.

Purple Heart

2f 1m plus 1 young boy (age 12)

A deeply moving meditation on love, loss and grief, from the author of Clybourne Park.

Puss in Boots

4f 4m, doubling, or 6f 17m

A brilliantly inventive version of the classic tale, from the 'master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

Pussycat in Memory of Darkness

1f

A powerful play about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by one of Ukraine's leading playwrights.

Published in volume Voices from Ukraine: Two Plays

    Queen Anne

    6f 11m, doubling (7f+ 15m+)

    Helen Edmundson's gripping play tells the little-known story of a monarch caught between friendship and duty.

    Queen Margaret

    5f 6m, doubling with cross-gender casting (2f 15m, plus chorus roles)

    Using Shakespeare’s orginal lines, alongside new text, Jeanie O’Hare retells The Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the extraordinary Margaret of Anjou.

    Queers: Eight Monologues

    8 monologues, up to 2f 6m

    Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals.

    Quelques Fleurs

    1f 1m

    A short play from the leading Scottish poet and playwright.

    The Quiet House

    2f 2m

    An exploration of infertility and the taboo that surrounds it, The Quiet House is a funny, moving and unswervingly honest love story.

    Rabbit

    3f 3m

    A fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st century.

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    Alexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate Summerscale

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    Henrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard Eyre

    Tom Wells

    Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey