Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
The Nightclub
A short play about three very different women at a gay nightclub in Orlando, who are caught up in a terrifying hate crime.
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Fucking Feminists
A fiercely funny short play by Rose Lewenstein, investigating what feminism means, and what it has become.
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Tituba
Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.
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White Lead
A short play exploring the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.
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What is the Custom of Your Grief?
A short play by Timberlake Wertenbaker about an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan.
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Finsbury Park
A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.
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The Price of a Fish Supper
A short play about a man whose fortunes have declined along with the Scottish fishing industry in which he has worked all his life.
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Better Days Better Knights
A sweet-hearted tale of a washed-up knight-of-old, from the grandfather of modern Scottish playwriting.
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Ramallah
A short play about a writer returning home from Palestine to his wife, and being gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie.
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54% Acrylic
A short play about a young woman who, after shoplifting for the first time, is chased by the store detective.
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Harm (short play)
A short play about a father and son waiting in a new 'self-harming unit'.
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