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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 Concert / El Concierto

The Concert / El Concierto

By Ulises Rodriquez Febles Translated by William Gregory

A fascinating glimpse into the social and cultural complexities of Castro's Cuba.

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Consensual

Consensual

By Evan Placey

An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you.

Consent

Consent

By Nina Raine

A powerful, painful, funny play about the meaning of justice and consent when two friends take opposing briefs in a rape case.

The Container

The Container

By Clare Bayley

A harrowing, intense drama about people-trafficking, set inside a container lorry.

Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

By Travis Alabanza, Firdos Ali, Natasha Gordon, debbie tucker green, Arinzé Kene and Chinonyerem Odimba Selected by Natalie Ibu

An anthology of six brilliant plays, celebrating a multiplicity of stories authored by Black playwrights in the UK over the last decade. Selected and introduced by leading theatre director Natalie Ibu.

Continental Divide: two plays

Continental Divide: two plays

By David Edgar

In this two-play cycle set against the background of a bitterly fought American governor's election, David Edgar explores what has happened to the revolutionary fervour which took hold of both the Right and the Left in the 1960s, and how it has been carried over into the politics of today.

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The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. Original 2009 edition.

The Convict's Opera

The Convict's Opera

By Stephen Jeffreys

The world's first ever musical, The Beggar's Opera, is performed on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.

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Coolatully

Coolatully

By Fiona Doyle

Lyrical and urgent, Fiona Doyle's play Coolatully is a compassionate insight into the links between the economy, masculinity and society in the modern world. Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize.

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Coram Boy

Coram Boy (stage version)

By Jamila Gavin Adapted by Helen Edmundson

A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread award-winning novel set in 18th-century England.

The Cord

The Cord

By Bijan Sheibani

An honest and moving play about the challenging truths of family dynamics, focussing on a couple in the weeks after the birth of their child. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London.

Cornermen

Cornermen

By Oli Forsyth

An exhilarating play about human triumph, ambition, self-doubt, and pride, set in the world of boxing.

Corrina, Corrina

Corrina, Corrina

By Chloë Moss

A gripping theatrical thriller set at sea, exploring power dynamics, superstitions and revenge, and what happens when we think no one is watching.

Cosmic Scallies

Cosmic Scallies

By Jackie Hagan

A witty and touching new play about class, friendship and absence.

Cost of Living

Cost of Living

By Martyna Majok

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny play that explores our need to connect and be loved regardless of the gulfs that disability, race, class, and wealth place between us.

Cotton Wool

Cotton Wool

By Ali Taylor

A gripping and darkly comic tale of young lives on the edge. Winner of the 2009 Meyer-Whitworth Award.

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Cougar

Cougar

By Rose Lewenstein

A startling play about what – and who – we consume.

The Crack in the Emerald

The Crack in the Emerald

New Irish Plays

Edited by David Grant

Four Irish plays from the late 1980s, selected and introduced by David Grant of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Cressida

Cressida

By Nicholas Wright

A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

Crestfall

Crestfall

By Mark O'Rowe

A play about love in a dog-eat-dog world, told in Mark O’Rowe’s unique rhythmic style.

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (stage version)

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Adapted by Chris Hannan

An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky's masterful novel.

CripTales: Six Monologues

CripTales: Six Monologues

By Various Curated by Mat Fraser

Six fictional monologues portraying some very real experiences of disabled people in Britain, commissioned to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

The Crocodile

The Crocodile

By Tom Basden Original author Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within... a crocodile.