Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Pride's Crossing

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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Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

A monologue by a master of the art - 100% pure high octane Bogosian.

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Swimming to Cambodia

Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.

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Dracula (stage version)

Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel.

Blood and Ice

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.

Salt

A modern morality tale about the corrosive effect of money, joint winner of the 2008 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.

The Last Witch

A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart.

Speaking in Tongues

A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana.

Disconnect

An urgent exposé of the realities behind the international call centre.

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What We Know

A funny, painful and deeply moving play about loss - and cooking.

Me, As A Penguin

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (stage version)

Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators, vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.

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Olivia Hirst & David Byrne

Amanda Whittington

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13–18 May 2024
Wharf Theatre, Devizes