Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)

How do you fight without hate?

France, 1096.

Not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found.

Halvard Solness has arrived at the pinnacle of his career.

what if i'm not funny though - what if i go out there and i'm not funnySteve Johnston, guided and inspired by his girlfriend, is a small-time comedian, raw, original and true.

'Travesties is a superb comedy, a work of thought and imagination.

A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane.

What's a free telephone, when there are no private words?

Latte-land.

The brain builds a narrative to steady us from moment to moment, but it is absolutely an illusion.

Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France.

The Midlands, 1984.

They're going to kill you.

Okot wants nothing more than to get to the UK.

The MotherAnne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children.

Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years.

Well, that's one down, isn't it.

In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind.

If we help, we invite trouble.

Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party.

The central character of Alan Ayckbourn's new play is Susan, a parson's wife, 'one of the most moving and devastating that he has created.

I wish there could be a day where families came together and just said it all to each other.

Ireland, World War One.

Torn between army politics and the love of his soldiers on the front line, a legendary leader spirals out of control.

If I was to throw myself beneath that tide.

I'm a number's person.

Russia, late summer at the close of the nineteenth century.

It's risky work, handlin' men, my lass.

Walkern, 1712.

You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before -but like Let's Be Modest About ItTosh and Lou.

You know, love is milk, that's what it is.

A high-ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul.

And what does sorry mean?

A phrase we used to use: it is the best gift the British people have given to themselves.

I choose to take back my life.

Handel's Messiah is the world's most popular choral work.

'I want to give my country a model of perfection.

The Day family are Irish country-music royalty and Irene is their queen.

Orgon is the man who has everything.

Benjamin Rubin is a cantankerous old writer, whisky aficionado and pedant, still basking in the reflected glory of long-ago success.

I've read the studies.

In a high-end hotel room, rising football stars Jason and Ade are living the dream.

This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room, first performed in 1960, to Celebration, which premiered in 2000.

I can't take care of you anymore.

'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth.

Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land.

sit on the deck - have a few drinks put the world to rights - and watch working-class protestants burn some tyres and sticks and shout some shit - if that can't make a middle-class ex-catholic happy what canTwenty years on from the Belfast Peace Agreement, Tom and Maggie are enjoying a glass of wine or two on Gerry and Rosemary's deck, waiting for the Eleventh Night bonfire to be lit in the estate below.

They all convene at this place, the local Friday night disco, the Pavilion or 'Pivvy': once a grand old theatre for the upper echelons, now a drafty old cavernous wasteland for the hoi polloi.

When a young man jumps in front of the train Cyrus is driving, the mysterious circumstances prompt him to search for answers.

I had no idea what was going on.