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NHB Modern Plays

The NHB Modern Plays series features the pick of modern and contemporary plays from leading UK and international playwrights. Championing quality, accessibility and diversity, it takes the best writing for the stage and gives it enduring life on the page.

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Today

Today

By Robert Holman

From a Cambridge college to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self in the midst of a shifting, uncertain world.

To Sir, With Love

To Sir, With Love (stage version)

By E. R. Braithwaite Adapted by Ayub Khan Din

An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain. 

Tituba

Tituba

By Winsome Pinnock

Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.

Tinderbox

Tinderbox

By Lucy Kirkwood

A fast, wild and farcically funny play with a disturbing vision of a dystopian future.

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A Time to Reap

A Time to Reap

By Anna Wakulik Translated by Catherine Grosvenor

A play that follows one woman from a Polish village to the bright lights of London, exploring the issue of abortion and the Catholic Church.

A Time to Keep

A Time to Keep

By Stephanie Dale and David Edgar

A large-scale historical romp in the terrain between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

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Time Spent on Trains

Time Spent on Trains

By Elizabeth Kuti

A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.

Published in volume Fishskin Trousers
    The Time Machine: A Comedy

    The Time Machine: A Comedy

    By Steven Canny and John Nicholson

    A fast-paced, wise-cracking, riotous play, loosely based on H.G. Wells's masterpiece, that zips from the nineteenth century to the end of the world, and (with any luck) back again.

    Tilt

    Tilt

    By Ailis Ni Riain

    A beautifully simple debut play, about a woman's search for answers to her family's self destruction.

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    Tiger Country

    Tiger Country

    By Nina Raine

    A hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.

    Tickets are Now On Sale

    Tickets are Now On Sale

    By Caryl Churchill

    A short play about sponsorship and the arts.

    Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
      Thunderbox

      Thunderbox

      By Genevieve Barr

      A short monologue play about a pregnant wheelchair user facing a tough decision, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

      Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
        Thrown

        Thrown

        By Nat McCleary

        A poignant, dynamic play exploring belonging and identity, premiered by the National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival.

        Thrown

        Thrown

        By Jodi Gray

        A child-psychologist attempts to record what she's spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.

        Through A Glass Darkly

        Through A Glass Darkly (stage version)

        By Ingmar Bergman Adapted by Jenny Worton

        A poignant and sensuous stage adaptation of the 1961 Oscar-winning film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.

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        Through a Cloud

        Through a Cloud

        By Jack Shepherd

        A historical play about a battle of wits between Oliver Cromwell and John Milton, by the well-known actor Jack Shepherd.

        The Thrill of Love

        The Thrill of Love

        By Amanda Whittington

        A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

        Three Women and a Piano Tuner

        Three Women and a Piano Tuner

        By Helen Cooper

        An offbeat, lyrical drama about how our hopes and dreams can be thwarted by the choices we make - and by the ones we don't make.

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