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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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Crocodiles

Crocodiles

By Lee Mattinson

Lee Mattinson's extraordinary play, bringing to life a dystopian, modern-fairytale town where fact and fiction weave as tightly and snag as easily as granny's knitting.

Crossings

Crossings

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play with live music, waltzing and unexpected connections, exploring how we return, resettle and adapt.

The Crown Jewels

The Crown Jewels

By Simon Nye

A riotous comedy based on the scarcely believable true story of the greatest heist of all time: the theft of the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. From the creator of TV's Men Behaving Badly and The Durrells.

Cruising

Cruising

By Alecky Blythe

A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

By Lynn Nottage

An arresting, thought-provoking play about racial and social issues of the late 1950s, by the first woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.

Crush: The Musical

Crush: The Musical

By Maureen Chadwick and Kath Gotts

An outrageously fun musical set in an all-girls school in the 60s, from the team behind Bad Girls: The Musical.

Crushed Shells and Mud

Crushed Shells and Mud

By Ben Musgrave

A play about conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties in a world trembling in the grip of a devastating epidemic.

The Custom of the Country

The Custom of the Country

By Nicholas Wright

Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
    Cyrano

    Cyrano

    By Virginia Gay Original author Edmond Rostand

    A joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic play, first performed by Melbourne Theatre Company, and a hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to Park Theatre, London.

    Damage

    Damage

    By Kamal Khalladi Translated by Houda Echouafni

    A play from Morocco, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.

    Dancing Bears

    Dancing Bears

    By Sam Holcroft

    A short play laying bare the twisted loyalties and violence in teenage gangs.

    Dara

    Dara

    By Shahid Nadeem Adapted by Tanya Ronder

    An intense domestic drama of global consequence – for India then and for our world now.

    The Dark Room

    The Dark Room

    By Angela Betzien

    An intricately layered psychological thriller exposing the startling mistreatment of those most vulnerable in our society, at the hands of those who are meant to protect them.

    Dark Sublime

    Dark Sublime

    By Michael Dennis

    A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams – a love-letter to British sci-fi television.

    Darknet

    Darknet

    By Rose Lewenstein

    A fascinating - and terrifying - drama that explores the world of data commodification and the uncharted deep web.

    Daughter

    Daughter

    By Adam Lazarus

    A darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.

    Daughterhood

    Daughterhood

    By Charley Miles

    A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them.

    Daughters of the Revolution

    Daughters of the Revolution

    By David Edgar

    A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

    Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays
      David Copperfield

      David Copperfield (stage version)

      By Charles Dickens Adapted by Alastair Cording

      One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

      The Day I Stood Still

      The Day I Stood Still

      By Kevin Elyot

      A poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg, about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories.

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      Days of Wine and Roses

      Days of Wine and Roses (stage version)

      By Owen McCafferty

      JP Miller's 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, adapted brilliantly for the stage by Owen McCafferty.

      Dead Dad Dog

      Dead Dad Dog

      By John McKay

      An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.

      Published in volume Scot-Free
        Dealing with Clair

        Dealing with Clair

        By Martin Crimp

        A satire on yuppie moral and emotional bankruptcy and a bleak, black comedy thriller.

        Dean McBride

        Dean McBride

        By Sonya Hale

        A vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.