Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Superior Donuts
An entertaining comedy-drama set in a local donut shop in the heart of one of Chicago's most diverse communities. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of August: Osage County.
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In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play
Magnetic, nostalgic and gloriously imaginative, a comedy drama from award-winning New York playwright Sarah Ruhl.
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Chinglish
A hilarious comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication, exploring the modern difficulty of doing business between East and West.
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Rock / Paper / Scissors
Three Plays
Three intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy, centring around a Sheffield manufacturing family.
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£18.99£15.19Add to basketEbook£18.99£15.19Quiet in the Land
Set in and around an Amish Community in the Autumn of 1917.
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The Secret Garden (musical version)
By Marsha Norman Original author Frances Hodgson BurnettThe complete book and lyrics of Norman's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's classic.
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Gum
Set in a fictional fundamentalist country where chewing gum is outlawed, Gum explores the human need to tame nature and control desire.
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Homebody/Kabul
By Tony KushnerA devastating play about Afghanistan and its long, tortured relationship with the West, from the author of Angels in America.
- Paperback£17.99
The Light in the Piazza
By Craig Lucas and Adam GuettelThe book and lyrics of the hit Broadway musical based on Elizabeth Spencer's 1960 novella.
- Paperback£17.99
Yellow Face
A mock documentary that puts Hwang himself centre-stage as he uses the controversy over colour-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American.
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Road Show
By Stephen Sondheim and John WeidmanSondheim's Obie-Award-winning musical telling the real-life story of the Mizner brothers, following their fortunes from the 1890s Alaskan gold rush to the 1920s land boom.
- Paperback£17.99
True Love Lies
By Brad FraserFrom the Canadian author of Cold Meat Party and Love and Human Remains, in sharp, non-stop dialogue, True Love Lives tears open the nuclear family and finds the heart that is often lost and forgotten.
- Paperback£16.99
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