Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Prickly Heat
A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.
Inventing a New Colour
A war-time Exeter family takes in an evacuee from London.
Icecream
An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.
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A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.
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An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.
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The Gospel at Colonus
By Lee BreuerWriting at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.
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Playing for Time
The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself.
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Sunday in the Park with George
By Stephen Sondheim and James LapineThe Pulitzer-winning musical inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, celebrating the art of creation and the creation of art.
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The Letter-Box
A short play about domestic abuse, and its terrifying impact on families.
Published in volume Scot-FreeElizabeth Gordon Quinn (original Traverse Theatre version)
By Chris HannanA contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.
Published in volume Scot-FreeDead Dad Dog
By John McKayAn offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.
Published in volume Scot-FreeWriter's Cramp
By John ByrneThe debut play from the author of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti, taking satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions.
Published in volume Scot-Free
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