Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.

In seinem Stück ›Kanalratten‹ wirft Maxim Biller einen scharfen Blick auf die Kulturschickeria, deren Mitglieder sich um einen einflussreichen Journalisten versammeln.

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane.

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane.

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane.

Join Fran's quest for a "e;normal"e; sex life - featured in The Guardian's Best Shows of Edinburgh Fringe 2018, written and performed by Fran Bushe.

Midsummer night's eve in Edinburgh.

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"e;The sky was painfully big, but our worlds were small, our lives little.

"e;If you wanted to hold me.

'No problem here pal.

A town is in turmoil.

The last night of a dysfunctional relationship precedes its one-night stand beginnings in this bittersweet heartbreak comedy.

Everyone has football fever, but not in the usual way.

Funny PeculiarZsa Zsa, Raquelle, Blanche and Cuba are in quarantine four disabled women locked down, locked in, shut up and shouted down.

Five women go camping in a remote mountain range.

Four inspirational tales of Essex resilience intertwine to make an unmissable world premiere by the region's most exciting playwrights.

'I don't understand how we got here.

Pat and Pete live happily in their tiny botanic bathroom, so happily that they don't remember any ambitions they've ever had in life.

This classic short novel gets a classic Mark Wheeller treatment.

It is 1989 and a seemingly invincible Prime Minister has sacked Geoffrey Howe, her Foreign Secretary.

It was the dinner that changed history: the night in February 2016 when Boris Johnson decided to vote 'leave' and a nation's future was sealed.

Ever feel like your body takes up too much space in a world that doesn't want to make any room?

A lapsed academic haunted by her past, and by an ambiguous angel, in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie auditions for his ex in a pub-theatre in Cork City; a schizophrenic grapples for freedom from the mother in his mind; three voices of the COVID-19 pandemic seek long-distance resolution and reunion.

A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller's plays.

The Ching RoomA pitch-black two-hander set in a toilet cubicle.

'a bedrock of the Scottish theatre industry' The Guardian a major part of Scotland s new playwriting landscape The ScotsmanAfter running for fifteen years, the founding principles of A Play, a Pie and a Pint remain steadfast a new play at lunchtime every week that lasts no more than an hour, accompanied by a pie and a pint.

Language is personal.

Dinomania?

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.

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.

Set in late-19th century Germany, 'The Awakening of Spring' concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality.

Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential fantasy authors of the twentieth century.