Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Backstairs Billy

An irreverent comedy about the fifty-year relationship between the Queen Mother and her most loyal, most outrageous servant, William 'Billy' Tallon, who joined her household at the age of fifteen. Premiered in the West End with Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans.

Bacon

An unflinching and unexpectedly humorous play about masculinity, sexuality and power, through the dizzying lens of youth.

Bad Girls (stage version)

An energetic, fast-moving adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic, by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

Bad Roads

A heartbreaking, powerful and bitterly comic account of what it is to be a woman in wartime.

Bad Weather

A play about freedom, guilt and the possibility of redemption, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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The Ballad of Crazy Paola

A poignant two-hander about memory, truth and love.

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The Ballad of Maria Marten

A thrilling play based on the nineteenth-century Red Barn Murder in Suffolk, rediscovering the lost story of the murder victim, Maria Marten.

Ballad of Yachiyo

A dramatic tale of a young Japanese girl's sexual awakening, and ultimate social downfall, in Hawaii's harsh sugar-cane plantation system of the early twentieth century.

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Ballyturk

A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy.

Banana Boys

A play about the challenges of being on the school football team – and secretly gay.

Bang Bang Bang

A revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs.

Bangers

A gig-theatre play featuring original music inspired by early noughties and present-day R&B and Garage.

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Olivia Hirst & David Byrne

Amanda Whittington

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13–18 May 2024
Wharf Theatre, Devizes