Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Browning Version

Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage.

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Harlequinade

By Terence Rattigan

A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.

Published in volume The Browning Version

Homers

By Iain F. MacLeod

A tough and funny play about Glaswegian orphans forcibly transplanted to the Islands.

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The Waiting List

By Owen McCafferty

A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

By Owen McCafferty

An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.

Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

Shoot the Crow

By Owen McCafferty

An endearing yet hard-hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living.

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Far Away

By Caryl Churchill

A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists.

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dirty butterfly

By debbie tucker green

A mesmerising and startling play about voyeurism, power and guilt.

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Honour

By Joanna Murray-Smith

An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter.

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Black Milk

By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha Dugdale

A worm's eye view of post-Communist Russia, from the Siberian-born author of Plasticine. First performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2003.

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Shining Souls

By Chris Hannan

A riotously funny comedy with a gallery of unforgettable characters, published here in a revised version alongside its revival at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2003.

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100

By Christopher Heimann, Neil Monaghan and Diene Petterle

A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Winner of a Fringe First Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.