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21M.780: Writing the Full-Length Play: Contemporary Plays

Research guide for Ken Urban's 21M.780 Writing the Full-Length Play course

Electronic titles

Most of the plays listed below are available only in print. For electronic versions of additional contemporary plays, try Drama Online: TCG Books Play Collection, a selection of titles published by Theatre Communications Group.

Contemporary plays

The Aliens by Annie Baker; Michael Chernus; Patch Darragh; Erin Gann
Call Number: PS3602.A5842 A45 2010
ISBN: 9780822224730
Publication Date: 2011-11-28
Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Call Number: PS3607.U49 B48 2015
ISBN: 9781559365178
Publication Date: 2015-11-24
The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc
Call Number: PS3612.E35 B54 2013
ISBN: 9780573700620
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
The Children (TCG Edition) by Lucy Kirkwood
Call Number: PR6111.I76 C45 2017
ISBN: 9781559365772
Publication Date: 2017-11-07
The Christians by Lucas Hnath
Call Number: PS3608.N38 C46 2016
ISBN: 9781468310832
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
Downstate by Bruce Norris
Call Number: PS3614.O768 D69 2019
ISBN: 9781848428195
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro by Luis Alfaro; Rosa Andújar (Editor)
Call Number: PS3551.L35778 G74 2021
ISBN: 9781350155404
Publication Date: 2020-09-03
Good Goods by Christina Anderson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781408173824
Publication Date: 2012-12-06
Appears in The Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays. Available as e-book in Drama Online.
The Jungle by Joe Robertson; Joe Murphy
Call Number: PR6113.U7678 J86
ISBN: 9780571350186
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Mayenburg: Three Plays by Marius von Mayenburg; Maja Zade (Translator)
Call Number: PT2684.A34 A6 2015
ISBN: 9781783199433
Publication Date: 2016-04-26
Includes Eldorado, Perplexed, and The Dog, The Night and the Knife.
Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison
Call Number: PS3608.A78348 M37 2016
ISBN: 9780573704888
Publication Date: 2016-10-14
Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley
Call Number: PR6068.I292 M47 2005
ISBN: 9780413775146
Publication Date: 2005-02-10
The Nether by Jennifer Haley
Call Number: PS3608.A5464 N48 2014
ISBN: 9780810130630
Publication Date: 2014-11-30
Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God by Roland Schimmelpfennig; Translated by David Tushingham
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1783195940
Publication Date: 2015-01-08
Included in Plays One.
Pornography by Simon Stephens
Call Number: PR6119.T455 P65 2008
ISBN: 9781408110560
Publication Date: 2008-11-24
Punk Rock by Simon Stephens; Catherine Love (Introduction by); Chris Megson (Series edited by); Jenny Stevens (Series edited by)
Call Number: PR6119.T455 P86 2016
ISBN: 9781474229357
Publication Date: 2016-10-20
Recent Alien Abductions by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Call Number: PS634 .H86 2018
ISBN: 9780981909950
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Note: Appears in Humana Festival 2017: the Complete Plays
Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau
Call Number: PR6113.O7487 S54 2017
ISBN: 9780573705168
Publication Date: 2017-05-18
The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp
Call Number: PS3568.A6278 S68 2019
ISBN: 9781559369770
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Stoning Mary by Debbie Tucker Green
Call Number: PR6107.R437 S76 2005
ISBN: 9781854598561
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Sweat (TCG Edition) by Lynn Nottage
Call Number: PS3564.O795 S94 2017
ISBN: 9781559365321
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
Usual Girls by Ming Peiffer
Call Number: PS3616.E35345 U88 2019
ISBN: 9780822240198
Publication Date: 2019-10-18
What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck
Call Number: PS3569.C529174 W47 2020
ISBN: 9781559369640
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck
Call Number: E-book version
ISBN: 9781559369640
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
This e-book version is available as part of the TCG Collection in Drama Online.
The Wolves by Sarah Delappe
Call Number: PS3604.E5445 W65 2016
ISBN: 9780573705977
Publication Date: 2017-05-18

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