Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
generations
A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...
The Waiting List
A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.
I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me
An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.
Miseryguts
A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.
A Bed of Roses
An acerbic and funny play about middle-class hypocrisy and universal apathy.
The Lament for Arthur Cleary
Bestselling novelist Dermot Bolger transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin.
Almost Nothing
An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.
At the Table
An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.
On the Beach
Part of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
Resilience
Part of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
What Love Is
A short play about caring for your parents.
When Cows Go Boom
A short play by Stacey Gregg, an oblique parable of love set against the backdrop of a horrific landscape.
