Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Basement Flat

By Rona Munro

A short and unnerving play about families, property and rampant vegetation.

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Battlefield

By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne

The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière revisit the great Indian epic The Mahabharata, thirty years after Brook’s legendary production took world theatre by storm.

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Bazaar

By David Planell Translated by John Clifford

A play by young Spanish dramatist David Planell, about the hilarious attempt to get an accident video shown on TV, releasing undercurrents of racism in society.

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Bé Carna

By Deirdre Kinahan

A short play in which five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin.

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Be My Baby

By Amanda Whittington

A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.

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Beached

By Melissa Bubnic

A darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns.

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The Beacon

By Nancy Harris

A drama about a Dublin artist haunted by a mysterious accident in her past.

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Beautiful Eyes

By Caryl Churchill

A short play about a family divided by politics, first performed in the week of Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five

Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre stage version)

By Lucy Kirkwood and Katie Mitchell

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.