Modern Drama

A hugely warm-hearted, comic tale of close-knit Indian family life in England, by the author of East is East.

Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators, vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.

A poetic, bloody and heroic tale of industrial action and civic resistance, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.

A play exploring women's roles in the Irish revolutionary wars, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.

A play exploring the extraordinary energy and complexity of events in Ireland in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.

An imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic.

A short play about a writer returning home from Palestine to his wife, and being gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie.

A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love.

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.

A darkly comic thriller set in the grim, seething and sometimes hilarious criminal world of Dublin's suburbs.

The only play by leading Mexican poet Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A slippery thriller for the stage, about love, power and belief. In a modern world where reality is whatever we imagine it to be, how do we know the stories we tell ourselves are true?