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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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Drip Feed

Drip Feed

By Karen Cogan

An infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.

Drip Feed & The Half Of It: Two Plays

Drip Feed & The Half Of It: Two Plays

By Karen Cogan

Two rich and startling monologues from award-winning actor and playwright Karen Cogan.

Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?

Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?

By Caryl Churchill

A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam.

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The Drunks

The Drunks

By Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov Translated by Nina Raine

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

Dry Powder

Dry Powder

By Sarah Burgess

A razor-sharp comedy about the people who shape – and skew – the economy.

Dublin Carol

Dublin Carol

By Conor McPherson

A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.

Duck

Duck

By Stella Feehily

A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin. 

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Duck Duck Goose

Duck Duck Goose

By Caitríona Daly

A viscerally charged play, full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media.

Duologue

Duologue

By Terence Rattigan

Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.

Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue
    Dusk Rings A Bell

    Dusk Rings A Bell

    By Stephen Belber

    A beautifully crafted play from the American playwright, author of Tape and associate writer of The Laramie Project, whose events are echoed in this play.

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    ear for eye

    ear for eye

    By debbie tucker green

    Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.

    East Coast Chicken Supper

    East Coast Chicken Supper

    By Martin J. Taylor

    A scabrously funny look at 'young enterprise' in modern Scotland.

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    East is East

    East is East

    By Ayub Khan Din

    A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

    Echoes

    Echoes

    By Henry Naylor

    A bloody tale of colonialism – ancient and modern – and the rhyme of history. Part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.

    Ecstasy

    Ecstasy

    By Mike Leigh

    A play about loneliness, togetherness, longing, warmth and love.

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    Edgar & Annabel

    Edgar & Annabel

    By Sam Holcroft

    An Orwellian dystopian fable about a group of freedom fighters attempting to stand up to a repressive regime, while being continuously subjected to surveillance.

    Edgar: Shorts

    Edgar: Shorts

    By David Edgar

    A collection of shorter plays from stage and television by one of the UK's foremost political playwrights.

    Educating Agnes

    Educating Agnes

    By Liz Lochhead

    A dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely.

    Education, Education, Education

    Education, Education, Education

    By The Wardrobe Ensemble

    A theatrical love letter to the schools of the 1990s, asking big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies. Full of inventive theatricality and irreverent humour.

    Eggs

    Eggs

    By Florence Keith-Roach

    A dark comedy about female friendship, fertility and freaking out, by Florence Keith-Roach, 'rising star of the London theatre scene' (Evening Standard).

    Egusi Soup

    Egusi Soup

    By Janice Okoh

    A fast and funny family drama about intergenerational and cross-cultural relationships - containing plenty of spicy bits…

    Egyptian Products

    Egyptian Products

    By Laila Soliman Translated by Khalid Laith

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

    Eight

    Eight

    By Ella Hickson

    Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.

    Electric Rosary

    Electric Rosary

    By Tim Foley

    A sharp, timely and gloriously funny play that asks what faith really means in the age of artificial intelligence. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award.