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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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The Clearing

The Clearing

By Helen Edmundson

A powerful play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland.

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The Climbers

The Climbers

By Carmen Nasr

A thrilling play about the lure of the mountains, the drive to conquer and the price of staying alive.

Cling To Me Like Ivy

Cling To Me Like Ivy

By Samantha Ellis

A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.

The Clink

The Clink

By Stephen Jeffreys

A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.

Close Quarters

Close Quarters

By Kate Bowen

A taut, funny and powerful drama about the first generation of female soldiers to serve in the British infantry in close combat.

Closer to God

Closer to God

By Anna Jordan

A short play exploring the private worlds of strangers, living side by side but generations apart.

Closing Time

Closing Time

By Owen McCafferty

McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.

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Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine

By Caryl Churchill

A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.

Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park

By Bruce Norris

An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property.

Clyde's

Clyde's

By Lynn Nottage

A hilarious and hopeful play from the Pulitzer-winning playwright, set in the bustling kitchen of a run-down Pennsylvania truck stop, where the formerly incarcerated staff have been given a second chance.

Cockroach

Cockroach

By Sam Holcroft

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.

Cold Comfort

Cold Comfort

By Owen McCafferty

A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

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    Cold War

    Cold War (stage version)

    Adapted by Conor McPherson Original author Paweł Pawlikowski

    An epic love story spanning the decades and breadth of Europe at its most divided, adapted from the Academy Award-nominated film. Premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2023.

    Collapsible

    Collapsible

    By Margaret Perry

    A funny, furious monologue about holding on in this collapsing world.

    The Collector

    The Collector

    By Henry Naylor

    A compelling tale of murder, evil and betrayal set in occupied Iraq, part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.

    Come On Over

    Come On Over

    By Conor McPherson

    A Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before.

    Come Out Eli

    Come Out Eli

    By Alecky Blythe

    A verbatim play telling the story of the 2002 Hackney siege, as told by the diverse and vibrant community that experienced it.

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    The Comeback

    The Comeback

    By Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen

    A heartwarming, joyful and dazzlingly funny exploration of bittersweet nostalgia and the enduring power of friendship.

    The Comeuppance

    The Comeuppance

    By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

    A bitingly comic, strikingly timely satire for the stage, which asks if we can ever break free from the people we used to be.

    Coming Clean

    Coming Clean

    By Kevin Elyot

    Funny, fresh and packed with razor-sharp wit, Kevin Elyot’s landmark drama questions the nature of fidelity and the limits of love.

    Comment is Free

    Comment is Free

    By James Fritz

    A journalist forms the centre of a devastating media storm in James Fritz's urgent, gripping and innovative play.

    Comment is Free & Start Swimming

    Comment is Free & Start Swimming

    Two plays

    By James Fritz

    Two plays by award-winning writer James Fritz, each asking urgent, pointed and complex questions of the times we live in.

    Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics

    Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics

    By George Furth and Stephen Sondheim

    Published alongside the acclaimed, reimagined West End revival in 2018, this edition of Sondheim's hit musical features the complete revised book and lyrics for the production, plus colour production photographs.

    The Complaint

    The Complaint

    By Nick Whitby

    A chilling play set in a Kafkaesque world where nothing is quite as it seems, and where office politics can lead to unlawful questioning, torture and even murder...