NHB Modern Plays

A fantastical, theatrical adventure through the underground world of street art and the hidden patterns in our universe. Premiered on UK tour by Theatre Centre and Sheffield Theatres in 2024.

An epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War.

A challenging and thought-provoking play about T.E. Lawrence and his life after Arabia.

A funny, probing, and bold play that picks up where Ibsen's A Doll's House left off, and offers a sharp contemporary take on the struggles inherent in all human relationships across time.

The Domino Effect is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

A second collection of plays by Fin Kennedy, author of How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found and The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays.

A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.

A thrilling stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, following one man's descent from glorious debauchery to epic self-destruction.

A short play about two police officers and their different expectations of the job.

Double Feature brings together – in two volumes of paired short plays – four of the most exciting new voices in UK theatre, in their first commissions for the National Theatre.

Double Feature brings together – in two volumes of paired short plays – four of the most exciting new voices in UK theatre, in their first commissions for the National Theatre.

A provocative play about four men convicted of sex crimes, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clybourne Park.

A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.

Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel.

A comic retelling of the story of Dracula, from John Nicholson and Exeter-based theatre company Le Navet Bete.

A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.

A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.

A riotous musical play transporting Shakespeare's most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series.

An ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

A short play about two children forced into prostitution.

An intimate and visceral play that dives into the mind of a young Black queer man wrestling with anxiety. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.

A riotous comedy about love, death and responsibility.

An intoxicating and mystical play about love, belonging and the tides within us, premiered by Pentabus and ThickSkin on a tour of the UK.

A one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.