Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Tapped
A witty and sensitive portrayal of managing mental health within a family, highlighting the barriers we put up in order to put on a brave face.
Tartuffe
By Molière Adapted by Liz Lochhead4f 5mA rollicking Scots version of Molière's classic of political satire and black comedy.
Published in volume Miseryguts & TartuffeThe Taxidermist's Daughter (stage version)
By Kate Mosse6-9f 9-12m plus optional extrasA thrilling Gothic story of violence, retribution and justice, adapted for the stage by Kate Mosse from her own internationally best-selling novel.
Tearing the Loom
2f 5mA searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.
Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our OwnTeenage Dick
By Mike Lew4f 2mA darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power.
Temple
By Steve Waters3f 3m plus 2 boys (aged ten)A fictional account of the 2011 Occupy London movement, set in the heart of a very British crisis – a crisis of conscience, a crisis of authority and a crisis of faith.
Ten Tiny Toes
4f 5mAn uncompromising account of the heartbreaking choices faced by mothers today and what happens when a distant war comes home.
Tender
2f 0-2m (can be performed by 2f)A chance meeting leads to giddy kisses in a play about two women who find each other without even knowing they were looking. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024.
A Tender Thing
By Ben Power1f 1mAnother Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story.
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Amateur Productions
On Now & Coming SoonBill Bryson, Adapted by Tim WhitnallFin KennedyAmanda WhittingtonAlexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate SummerscaleAmanda WhittingtonHenrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard EyreTom WellsJeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey