Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Belfry

By Billy Roche

A deeply moving tale about what lies beneath the surface of everyday lives.

Published in volume The Wexford Trilogy

Poor Beast in the Rain

By Billy Roche

A slice of small-town life, set in a betting shop in Wexford. Part of Billy Roche's acclaimed Wexford Trilogy.

Published in volume The Wexford Trilogy

I Just Stopped By To See The Man

By Stephen Jeffreys

A play about the myth surrounding an old blues singer, from the author of The Libertine.

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Japes

By Simon Gray

A funny and sardonic play about two brothers trapped in a love triangle with the woman they both love.

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Emma (stage version)

By Jane Austen Adapted by Doon MacKichan and Martin Millar

A bold, witty and fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel which, while thoroughly modern, retains the spirit and much of the language of the original.

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Amphibians

By Billy Roche

A rite-of-passage play in which a twelve-year-old boy spends the night alone on an island.

Published in volume The Cavalcaders and Amphibians

The Cavalcaders

By Billy Roche

A rousing, comic play set in an old-fashioned cobbler's shop in small-town southern Ireland.

Published in volume The Cavalcaders and Amphibians

Mouth to Mouth

By Kevin Elyot

At a homecoming party for Dennis and Laura's teenage son, the reappearance of an old family friend throws up secrets from the past and paves the way for fresh disaster.

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In Praise of Love

By Terence Rattigan

An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer.

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Made in China

By Mark O'Rowe

A blackly comic drama set in a crazed, completely re-imagined Dublin underworld, full of martial arts, rogue cops and savage low-lifes. From the award-winning writer of Howie the Rookie.