Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Two Ladies

By Nancy Harris

A powerful drama about the first ladies of France and America, as their husbands clash over an international crisis.

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Two Billion Beats (short play version)

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A short play about the unfairness of growing up in a world where you don't make the rules. First performed as part of Inside/Outside, a season of short plays staged at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.

Published in volume Inside/Outside

Two Billion Beats

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.

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twins

By James Fritz

A short play about twins whose lives diverge, first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.

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Twilight Song

By Kevin Elyot

Kevin Elyot's evocative final play, a hilarious and heartbreaking tale of one family's hidden liaisons over half a century.

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The Turn of the Screw (stage version)

By Henry James Adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

A chilling adaptation of Henry James's classic ghost story.

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Tumulus

By Christopher Adams

A chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath.

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Tuesdays at Tesco's

By Emmanuel Darley Translated by Matthew Hurt and Sarah Vermande

A touching one-person play about a person's true identity, the first English-language adaptation of Emmanuel Darley's hit play, Le Mardi à Monoprix.

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Tuesday

With a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth

By Alison Carr Translated by Daf James

A funny and playful drama written specifically for young people, about what happens when the world literally turns upside-down. Bilingual edition: includes the original English play with a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth, by playwright Daf James.

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Trying It On

By David Edgar

An autobiographical monologue, written to be performed by its author David Edgar, in which Edgar at seventy confronts the ideals of his twenty-something self.

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truth and reconciliation

By debbie tucker green

A play about the aftermath of violence, in conflicts around the world from Rwanda to Northern Ireland, and from Zimbabwe to Bosnia.

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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.