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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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Abigail

Abigail

By Fiona Doyle

A man in his forties and a woman in her twenties meet on a trip to Berlin. Across a fractured timeline where past and present collide, the story of their relationship, their love and their struggle unravels.

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Abortive

Abortive

By Caryl Churchill

A couple in bed discuss the effect on them of the woman's recent abortion.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
    About a Goth

    About a Goth

    By Tom Wells

    A short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.

    Published in volume Me, As A Penguin
      Acceptance

      Acceptance

      By Amy Ng

      Crackling with razor-sharp dialogue, Amy Ng's play asks whether we can ever escape our past, and investigates the destructive side of our search for acceptance.

      Accidental Death of an Anarchist

      Accidental Death of an Anarchist

      By Dario Fo and Franca Rame Adapted by Tom Basden

      Dario Fo and Franca Rame's riotous satire, in a hilarious, bang-up-to-date adaptation by BAFTA-nominated comedy writer Tom Basden.

      According to Hoyle

      According to Hoyle

      By William Gaminara

      A comedy drama about male friendship in which five old friends meet for a traditional evening of poker.

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      The Acedian Pirates

      The Acedian Pirates

      By Jay Taylor

      A play that challenges our understanding of mythology, and forces us to ask vital questions about military occupation.

      Acting Leader

      Acting Leader

      By Joy Wilkinson

      A short play about Margaret Beckett finding herself Acting Leader of the Opposition after the sudden death of John Smith.

      Acts

      Acts

      By Riccardo Galgani

      A short play about an old couple whose son returns after years of absence.

      Published in volume Family: three plays
        Adam

        Adam

        By Frances Poet

        The remarkable true story of a young trans man's journey from Egypt to Scotland, charting his progress across borders and genders in his search for a place to call home.

        After Life

        After Life

        By Jack Thorne Original author Hirokazu Kore-eda

        A surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live – and to die.

        After Mrs Rochester

        After Mrs Rochester

        By Polly Teale

        A dramatisation of the extraordinary life of Jean Rhys, in which themes of femininity, literature and hysteria and madness collide with vivid force.

        After the Act

        After the Act

        By Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens

        A funny, camp and unapologetically queer musical about Thatcher's Section 28 and the moral panic that gripped a nation – and how a community decided to fight back.

        The After-Dinner Joke

        The After-Dinner Joke

        By Caryl Churchill

        A short play satirising the charity business, written for television. First broadcast on BBC One as part of the BBC's Play for Today series.

        Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
          Again

          Again

          By Stephanie Jacob

          A touching and comic drama about a family reunion, delving into the turmoil, love and compromises of kinship.

          Age is a Feeling

          Age is a Feeling

          By Haley McGee

          A gripping one-person play that wrestles with the glorious and melancholy uncertainties of human life, from the author of The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale.

          Air

          Air

          By Caryl Churchill

          A resonant and surreal short piece published alongside What If If Only.

          Published in volume What If If Only
            Airsick

            Airsick

            By Emma Frost

            A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.

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            Albert Speer

            Albert Speer

            By David Edgar

            A panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.

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            Albertine in Five Times

            Albertine in Five Times

            By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco

            A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.

            Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays
              Albion

              Albion

              By Mike Bartlett

              Mike Bartlett's outstanding play, set in the ruins of a garden in rural England.

              Alcatraz

              Alcatraz

              By Nathan Lucky Wood

              A thrilling play about family and social care that follows 11-year-old Sandy on her daring, Christmas mission to emulate Clint Eastwood and bust her gran out of lock-up.

              Alexi Kaye Campbell Plays: One

              Alexi Kaye Campbell Plays: One

              By Alexi Kaye Campbell

              A collection of five plays by Alexi Kaye Campbell: The Pride, Apologia, The Faith Machine, Bracken Moor and Sunset at the Villa Thalia.

              All honey

              All honey

              By Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

              A play about sex, secrets and suspicion, winner of the 2017 Fishamble New Writing Award.

              Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays