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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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Liberation Squares

Liberation Squares

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A riotous stage comedy about sisterhood, freedom of speech, and dissent in the face of institutionalised Islamophobia.

The Libertine

The Libertine

By Stephen Jeffreys

An incisive critique of life in an age of excess, based on the true story of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. This edition of the play was published alongside the 2016 production at the Theatre Royal Bath and Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Life After George

Life After George

By Hannie Rayson

A moving and perceptive play that looks at social change across three decades, from the student barricades of the late 1960s to the new millennium.

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Life Raft

Life Raft

By Fin Kennedy Original author Georg Kaiser Contributions by Tassos Stevens

A thrilling large-cast play for young actors exploring the psychology of survival – and an urgent allegory for our times. Plus a series of interactive games specially created by award-winning games designer Tassos Stevens, to facilitate a deeper exploration of the play's themes.

The Light Burns Blue

The Light Burns Blue

By Silva Semerciyan

A play inspired by the true story of the Cottingley Fairies. Part of Platform, a series of big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.

Light in the Village

Light in the Village

By John Clifford

A devastatingly effective modern parable about poverty and corruption in an Indian village.

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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

By Caryl Churchill

The story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England during the English Civil War.

The Lightest Element

The Lightest Element

By Stella Feehily

A stage drama about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, one of the most eminent astronomers of the twentieth century. Premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2024.

Lilies on the Land

Lilies on the Land

By the Lions part

A revealing, funny and wonderfully moving portrait of four women who sign up to join the Women's Land Army during World War II.

Limbo

Limbo

By Declan Feenan

A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.

Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays
    Limehouse

    Limehouse

    By Steve Waters

    A thrilling drama that takes us behind closed doors to imagine the personal conflicts behind the making of political history.

    Lionboy

    Lionboy (stage version)

    By Zizou Corder Adapted by Marcelo Dos Santos

    An adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy novels for award-winning theatre company Complicite.

    The Lioness

    The Lioness

    By Rebecca Lenkiewicz

    A short play about Elizabeth I: the myth and the reality.

    LIT

    LIT

    By Sophie Ellerby

    A play exploring the turbulent teenage years of a Nottingham girl looking for love in all the wrong places.

    Little Baby Jesus

    Little Baby Jesus

    By Arinzé Kene

    Three magnetic personalities and three remarkable stories from the poetic imagination of Arinzé Kene.

    Little Baby Jesus & Estate Walls

    Little Baby Jesus & Estate Walls

    Two plays

    By Arinzé Kene

    Two plays, both set in contemporary inner-city London, showcasing the remarkable poetic and theatrical imagination of writer/performer Arinzé Kene.

    Little Bits of Ruined Beauty

    Little Bits of Ruined Beauty

    By Tom Wentworth

    A darkly comic play examining the subtle shift from cared-for to carer and how dignity and independence are maintained in isolated rural areas. 

    Little Certainties

    Little Certainties

    By Bárbara Colio Translated by William Gregory

    Mario is missing, presumed dead. In the town of Tijuana, his brother and sister make a shocking discovery about Mario and his secrets.

    Published in volume Mexican Plays
      Little Dolls

      Little Dolls

      By Nancy Harris

      A short play about a woman seeking help from a therapist to overcome a traumatic episode in her past.

      Little Eagles

      Little Eagles

      By Rona Munro

      A play telling the fascinating and little-known story of Sergei Korolyov, chief designer and unsung hero of the Soviet space programme.

      Little Gem

      Little Gem

      By Elaine Murphy

      A poignant and hilarious play about love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes, following three generations of women over one extraordinary year.

      A Little Life

      A Little Life (stage version)

      Original author Hanya Yanagihara Adapted by Koen Tachelet, Ivo van Hove and Hanya Yanagihara

      A bruising and beautiful story of love, the limits of human endurance, and the tyranny of memory, adapted for the stage from Hanya Yanagihara's bestselling novel.

      A Little Night Music

      A Little Night Music

      By Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler

      An utterly sophisticated and charming musical boasting such numbers as 'Send in the Clowns' and 'A Weekend in the Country'.

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      Little Platoons

      Little Platoons

      By Steve Waters

      Moving from satiric comedy to poignant family drama, Little Platoons explores what the retreat of the state and the growth of people power really means for society and its youngest citizens.