Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)

Kay Harker is heading home for the school holidays.

It's November 1917 and the Third Battle of Ypres is lurching towards its bloody conclusion.

The child's down a hole, the mother's up to high doh, the town's up in arms and humanity's down the drain.

Should I run?

This play ran at the National Theatre, London, throughout 1978 and the New York production in the autumn of 1982 was equally well received.

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling.

The habit creeps up on me out of nowhere.

Three years after a difficult breakup, Steph and Greg are wondering if they can start over again.

Where our real home might be is tricky to say.

Nothing cuts into us like the family knife.

You haven't asked, but yes, you both may stay in our house for the time being.

Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles' exhilerating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021's must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.

Because we live in Europe.

Two couples.

Teach me the language of your hands.

In this radical new version of Peer Gynt, David Hare kidnaps Henrik Ibsen's most famous hero and runs away with him into the twenty-first century.

'No problem here pal.

We are a small community.

At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House.

Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy.

Don't be miserable, you wonderful woman; be a mermaid.

Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown.

Could peace come after?

Passion.

An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East.

- And your husband forgave you.

In the savage 1942 winter siege of Leningrad, as the Russians fight off the Nazi invaders, three teenagers - Lika, Marat and Leondik - are thrown together.

Set in New England just after the end of the Civil War, Mourning Becomes Electra is O'Neill's three part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy.

During the summer holidays of 2009 Corey dreams of nothing but hanging around with his friends while ordering as much Morley's as possible.

This volume contains a selection of early works by Harold Pinter.

Three exquisite masterpieces from Brian Friel, based on works by Chekhov: The Bear: A Vaudeville; Afterplay (where Sonya from Uncle Vanya and Andrey from Three Sisters meet), and The Yalta Game (from a theme in Chekhov's 1899 story, 'The Lady with the Lapdog').

Love is just sex.

Why you always got to dig things up?

Things don't change no matter how much you want them to.

Caroline Cox has been working in the Department of Human Services for twenty-five years.

This play re-enacts the 1917 trial and imprisonment of Alice Wheeldon, the renowned suffragist, for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister Lloyd George.

Andre and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years.

This Dog, our girl, they're not expecting her to win.

Early 1960s, Yorkshire.

On the day my little girl made a girl, the temperature was 91 degrees at sunrise.

America.

The old man started to talk about the trial.

Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years.

Shipwreck is the second part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia.

While her bullying and unfaithful boyfriend, Dave, is reporting in Iraq, Ann seizes the opportunity to change the locks and take up with her infinitely more considerate colleague Patrick.

Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science.

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

This play re-enacts the 1917 trial and imprisonment of Alice Wheeldon, the renowned suffragist, for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister Lloyd George.

Salvage is the final part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia.