Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Visitor

A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.

Published in volume Family: three plays

Pride's Crossing

By Tina Howe

A play about Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel.

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Just the Three of Us

By Simon Gray

A stylish mix of the comic and the macabre, exploring ideas about love, both platonic and romantic.

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Trust

By Gary Mitchell

A play about the bonds of trust in a tight-knit Loyalist community, and how easily they are shattered, from the multi-award winning writer of The Force of Change.

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This is a Chair

By Caryl Churchill

A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.

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The Clink

By Stephen Jeffreys

A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.

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Last Dance at Dum Dum

By Ayub Khan Din

A serious comedy from the author of East is East, about the dying breed of Anglo-Indians living in Calcutta in 1985.

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Arabian Nights (Young Vic stage version)

By Dominic Cooke

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

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Riddance

By Linda McLean

A chilling emotional thriller about two men and a woman bound together by the secrets of surviving a childhood in a Glasgow tenement.

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The Deep Blue Sea

By Terence Rattigan

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.