Modern Drama

Once Upon a Broken Time A simple man in a complicated time. When a city cop turns up dead in a quiet town under suspicious circumstances, the official story doesn’t sit right with Dave Miller. Among other hints of fowl play, whispers of a drug pipeline running through backcountry trails start to surface, and more indications of turbulence are in the air. With law enforcement looking the other way and too many folks content to stay quiet, Dave does what he’s always done: he gets to work. Alongside his loyal dogs, a sharp-shooting wife who’s as steady under pressure as he is, and a ...

Over Faust en zijn duivelspact zijn talrijke werken geschreven: de Faust-gestalte behelst een mythe van de moderne mens. Wie was deze omstreden geleerde? En welke voorstellingen zijn er op hem geprojecteerd? In zijn hoorcollege neemt Michiel Hagdorn de luisteraar mee op een zoektocht naar Faust langs beroemde Faust-werken: van het oude volksboek Historia von Doctor Johann Fausten uit 1587 tot het meest recente Faust-drama van Tom Lanoye Oustfaust uit 2022.

In Crimson Falls freedom isn’t guaranteed, people aren’t what they seem, and the pizza is killer. When a seemingly ordinary pizza delivery girl with a secret past finds herself trapped under the thumb of a ruthless mob boss, every heartbeat becomes a battle for survival. Troyan Pryce—once driven by ambition in the world of medicine—now navigates a labyrinth of betrayal, violence, and corrupt law enforcement, where even her family’s safety hangs in the balance. With the underworld closing in and dark forces rising from every shadow, Troyan must defy impossible odds to dismantle an ...

King of Scotland is an award-winning, dark comedy and a free adaptation of Gogol's A Diary of a Madman. Long-term unemployed Tommy McMillan joins a government-funded retraining scheme, "Up the Ladder". This volume also contains the biting satire The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer. Set in 1780, Glasgow is booming, but the American war is looming, and the city's wealth is dependent on the import and export of American tobacco.

Una secuela que no existe. Una actriz que la necesita. Un embrollo monumental. Emmett es capaz de venderte un cuento mejor que nadie. Pero cuando se cruza con Tika, una actriz cuya carrera y matrimonio van en picado, se mete en un lío de proporciones épicas: le hace creer que está produciendo la secuela de una película de culto de los 90, y, por supuesto, tiene un papel para ella. “Una chica” es una comedia romántica cargada de humor que ofrece una reflexión mordaz sobre la vida moderna, donde las mentiras tienen una forma extraña de volverse realidad. ¿Y tú, qué haces cuando ...

Lydia Bellafemine's life is a masterclass in organized chaos – a mother-of-four who artfully balances her life as a homemaker with a part-time job at a local college. Then, a fateful date night with her husband changes everything. Exposed to a mysterious creature, Lydia finds herself with extraordinary powers and an unexpected fate: becoming the world's first superhero! Now, instead of saving cats from trees, she has to grapple with a grizzled Air Force General bent on using her powers to do the government's dirty work. Add to that her increasingly needy children, the perpetual ...

Sensitive Secrets & Hidden Lies Sarah has built a perfect new life with Tom, her loving boyfriend. But beneath their picture-perfect relationship lurks a past she's desperate to forget - one filled with mistakes that still haunt her dreams. When echoes of those dark days begin to surface, Sarah's carefully constructed world starts to crack. Each lie she tells to protect her secrets only entangles her further, threatening everything she's worked so hard to build. As the pressure mounts and her past inches closer, Sarah faces an impossible choice: keep lying to the man she loves, or risk ...

Mary Winters, a successful yet overextended marketing executive, has spent her life making sure everyone around her is happy—except herself. As Christmas approaches, Mary is caught between planning the perfect holiday for her family, juggling her demanding career, and attempting to secure a picture-perfect relationship, all while secretly longing for a more fulfilling life. After a freak accident sends her tumbling down a flight of stairs, she wakes up in an alternate reality where everything is seemingly perfect: she’s engaged to the man of her dreams, her career is at its peak, and ...

Rabs fortunes have declined along with the fishing industry in which he has worked all his life, but now he eyes a glimpse of hope. A short play from Catherine Czerkawska.

Love in Hatfield: The Story Of Kgomotso By AS Davids Kgomotso, a bright and disciplined young woman from Hammanskraal, arrives in Pretoria full of dreams and ambition. She’s the first in her family to attend university, determined to become a chartered accountant and make her parents proud. But nothing could prepare her for the seductive chaos of life in Hatfield, where freedom, fast money, and false love walk the same streets. Navigating the temptations of blessers, the pressure of dating apps, academic stress, and painful betrayals, Kgomotso’s journey is one of survival, self-...

In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a mental patient tries to get help from a rabbi to smooth over family problems his manic episodes cause.

The Jewish festival scrolls known as the Megillot is a collection of Old Testament books that recognize that life itself—with all its joys and griefs, successes and failures, achievements and yearnings—can be a key to interpreting Scripture. In Reading the Megillot, Jeanette Mathews uses her own translations to reimagine each book as a different type of performance: Song of Songs as a Greek play, Ruth as a miniseries, Lamentations as performance poetry, Ecclesiastes as a television talk show, and Esther as a pantomime. Each script is introduced with historical and literary context and ...

Desperate to keep her teenage daughter from running with the wrong crowd again, Elsie Anderson makes the painful decision to leave Seattle for good. For her, solitude is a small price to pay for keeping Sophie out of trouble. Love is the last thing on Elsie’s mind, especially in a small town like Smithfield, Virginia. Alex Becker is the star of Smithfield's firefighting department. He may be a hero, but at night he sees a broken man in the mirror. There was a time when he believed in love, but that all disappeared after he unexpectedly lost his wife late last year. They both need a second...

“Bailey Ann Mayfair, when are you going to marry me?” With those words, Bailey Ann’s already messy world began to spin out of control. The dutiful oldest daughter, Bailey Ann is the one who came home to care for her parents, but she’s never felt more lost. Always the perfect child, she did everything the right way, including giving up the boy she loved. But Finn Malloy is back in town, too, and even he’s not sure where he stands with Bailey Ann. She once cut him so deep he never thought he’d recover. Now that she’s back, though… he can’t stop thinking about what might have...