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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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Little Revolution

Little Revolution

By Alecky Blythe

An explosive verbatim play about the 2011 London Riots, by the author of the award-winning London Road.

Little Wars

Little Wars

By Steven Carl McCasland

Set in the French Alps in 1940, this thrilling play – based on truth – is an enthralling, entertaining and ultimately moving portrait of seven exceptional women.

Little Women

Little Women (stage version)

By Louisa May Alcott Adapted by Anne-Marie Casey

A joyful and spirited adaptation of one of the best-loved novels of all time.

Lives of the Great Poisoners

Lives of the Great Poisoners

By Caryl Churchill

A multidisciplinary theatre piece about the most infamous poisoners in history, written by Caryl Churchill in collaboration with composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Ian Spink. 

Lizzie Siddal

Lizzie Siddal

By Jeremy Green

A gripping historical drama charting one woman's dazzling trajectory from model to lover to artist, to a tragic figure in her own right.

Liz Lochhead: Five Plays

Liz Lochhead: Five Plays

By Liz Lochhead

Five plays from the the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the country's best-known - and best-loved - living playwrights.

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The Lodger

The Lodger

By Robert Holman

An enlightening, cathartic and acerbic new play about identity, maturity and reconciliation.

London Road

London Road

By Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork

An experimental and challenging work which reveals the ways in which even the darkest experiences can engender a greater sense of our mutual dependence.

Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays

Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays

By Kenneth Lonergan

A collection of plays by the acclaimed film director, playwright and screenwriter: This Is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery and Lobby Hero.

The Long Song

The Long Song (stage version)

By Andrea Levy Adapted by Suhayla El-Bushra

The story of a young slave girl who lives through the final turbulent days of slavery on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica. Adapted from Andrea Levy's award-winning novel.

Long Time Dead

Long Time Dead

By Rona Munro

A gripping and darkly humorous play about the camaraderie of a trio of obsessive mountaineers.

LORENZO

LORENZO

By Ben Targét

A life-affirming story about the messiness of ageing and dying. Winner of a Fringe First award at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.

Lose Yourself

Lose Yourself

By Katherine Chandler

A fast and wild ride into the darker side of our celebrity obsessed culture.

Losing Venice

Losing Venice

By Jo Clifford

An epic fable set in the faraway Spanish Golden Age, about the deranged behaviour of countries that have lost an empire and still not yet found a role.

Lost

Lost

By Robert Holman

The second play in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly.

Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
    The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

    The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

    By Catherine Johnson

    The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

    Published in volume Singular Female Voices
      The Lottie Project

      The Lottie Project (stage version)

      By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky Ireland

      An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

      Love and Information

      Love and Information

      By Caryl Churchill

      From one of the UK's most influential playwrights - a fast moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

      Love and Other Acts of Violence

      Love and Other Acts of Violence

      By Cordelia Lynn

      A subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history.

      Love in a Glass Jar

      Love in a Glass Jar

      By Nancy Harris

      A short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.

      Published in volume Irish Shorts
        Love the Sinner

        Love the Sinner

        By Drew Pautz

        A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.

        Love Upon the Throne

        Love Upon the Throne

        By Patrick Barlow

        A gleefully comic retelling of the Charles and Diana story, designed to be performed by two (male) actors.

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        Love, Lies and Taxidermy

        Love, Lies and Taxidermy

        By Alan Harris

        An offbeat love story about Mr Tutti Frutti, a stuffed owl and the struggle to fit in.

        Lovesick

        Lovesick

        By Caryl Churchill

        A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives.

        Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts