Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Stones in His Pockets

2m (playing multiple roles)

Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.

    stoning mary

    6f 6m, plus 1 boy (doubling possible)

    Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology.

    Stoopud Fucken Animals

    2f 3m

    A pitch-black comedy complete with wickedly entertaining songs, from the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning writer of Food.

    Stop/Over

    1f 1m or 2f

    A night of debauchery and delicate connection in a play set in the city that never sleeps.

    Stories

    4f 3m, doubling (7f 11m)

    A funny and touching play about the fertilisation of an idea. Premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2018.

    The Strange Death of John Doe

    3f 5m, doubling (4f 12m)

    A powerful and poignant drama about the search for the identity of a young man whose body is found face down in a suburban street.

    Strangers in Between

    3-4m

    Tommy Murphy's unflinching and constantly surprising drama about how we make sense of who we are through our often fraught relations with others.

    strangers, babies

    1f 5m

    The chilling story of one woman's desperate attempts at a future that's worth living.

    Strategic Love Play

    1f 1m

    A Fringe First-winning play that, with acid wit, takes a scalpel to modern romance.

    Strawberries in January

    2f 2m

    A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montréal, in a version by Rona Munro.

    The Strongbox

    3f

    A story of domestic servitude and abuse of power.

    Stuff

    5f 4m (playing ages 13-17)

    A play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.

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    Bill Bryson, Adapted by Tim Whitnall

    Fin Kennedy

    Amanda Whittington

    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