Drama Online - Core Collection

Core Collection

The Core Collection forms the heart of Drama Online. With over 2,000 playtexts and more added each year, this collection is truly the foundation of the platform and offers a diverse and rich catalogue of plays by the world's leading dramatists.

The front cover of Best of Enemies by James Graham where the two main characters, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr, are displayed across a group of six television sets

The front cover of Top Girls by Caryl Churchill where a split screen depicts half a woman ironing and half a woman in office clothing

The front cover of Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre featuring plays by Paul Boakye, Rikki Beadle-Blair and more, depicting a wide smiling person looking up with open arms, wearing a silver sheer fabric cape with sequinned leotard, fishnets and a mask like a superhero on a blue background

The front cover of An unfinished man by Dipo Baruwa-Etti shows the silhouette of a man falling through clouds

The front cover of Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr shows Clytanmnestra, wife of Agamemnon

The front cover of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall shows Martin Luther King giving a speech

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Features preeminent theatre lists and images from:

Bloomsbury’s authoritative imprints, Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare
Faber and Faber
Production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center

Provides a comprehensive, world-class collection which offers:

The best dramatic texts from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill
Student editions and first night programme texts
The internationally renowned Arden Shakespeare play editions
Major foreign works in translation from Bertolt Brecht, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, Frank Wedekind, and more

Contains a wealth of modern classics from authors including:

Tom Stoppard
David Mamet
Alan Bennett
Caryl Churchill
Simon Stephens
Mark Ravenhill

Edward Bond
Alan Ayckbourn
Harold Pinter
Brian Friel
Willy Russell
John Osborne

David Greig
April De Angelis
David Hare
Shelagh Stephenson

Features playwrights from past and present such as:

Samuel Beckett : Endgame, Happy Days, Waiting for Godot (UK and ROW only)
Alan Bennett : The History Boys, The Madness of King George III, The Habit of Art (UK and ROW only)
Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya
Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime
Katori Hall: The Mountaintop
John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Sophocles: Electra, Oedipus
A continually growing collection of the very latest contemporary writers including Katori Hall, James Graham, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, D.C. Moore, Lucy Prebble, and Polly Stenham

Core Collection

Features preeminent theatre lists and images from:

Provides a comprehensive, world-class collection which offers:

Contains a wealth of modern classics from authors including:

Features playwrights from past and present such as:

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