Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Good People

A funny and tender drama that explores how even if you live on the brink, destiny can have a way of surprising you.

The Girl's Guide to Saving the World

A frank and funny new play about friendship, feminism and what it means to be successful.

Thérèse Raquin (Theatre Royal Bath stage version)

A story of lust, madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zola's classic novel.

Holes

An absurd, hilarious and fast-paced comedy by the writer of some of Britain's most acclaimed TV comedies.

Jonah and Otto

A humane, funny and ultimately haunting play that explores masculinity, identity and what it means to be English.

Elephants

A sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most.

A Breakfast of Eels

An intense, elusive, and quietly beautiful play about a family crisis.

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The Crocodile

By Tom Basden Original author Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within... a crocodile.

Crushed Shells and Mud

A play about conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties in a world trembling in the grip of a devastating epidemic.

German Skerries

An uplifting portrait of human hope and vulnerability, weaving resonant drama out of a friendship, a marriage, a holiday, and a death.

Human Animals

In the overcrowded city, nature is getting out of control. Stef Smith's play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016.

The Encounter

A solo show tracing one man's journey into the Amazon rainforest and to the limits of human consciousness, inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu.

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Amanda Whittington

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13–18 May 2024
Wharf Theatre, Devizes