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21M.604: Playwriting Fundamentals: Contemporary Plays

Research Guide for Ken Urban's 21M.604 Playwriting Fundamentals 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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