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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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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

By Helen Edmundson

A biographical play about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Premiered by Shared Experience.

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (stage version)

By Mary Shelley and Rona Munro

A brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece that places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.

Mary's Babies

Mary's Babies

By Maud Dromgoole

A provocative, funny and fascinating play, inspired by the true story of Mary Barton and her husband Bertold Wiesner, pioneers of fertility treatment.

The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary

The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert Adapted by John Nicholson and Javier Marzan

Peepolykus bring their exhilarating combination of verbal slapstick, visual surprise and anarchic comedy to Gustave Flaubert's seminal nineteenth-century masterpiece Madame Bovary.

The Maths Tutor

The Maths Tutor

By Clare McIntyre

A wry and incisive play exposing how our desire for a normal family life and our fears about adults, young people and sex, can sometimes outride the truth.

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Maydays

Maydays (Revised version)

By David Edgar

David Edgar's landmark play about the twenty-somethings who came of age in 1968 and were drawn into revolutionary politics. Revised version staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2018.

Maydays & Trying It On: two plays

Maydays & Trying It On: two plays

By David Edgar

Two plays by David Edgar, written thirty-five years apart, both exploring the theme of youth and revolution.

Mayfly

Mayfly

By Joe White

An ethereal family drama exploring rebirth in the aftermath of tragedy.

Conor McPherson Plays: One

Conor McPherson Plays: One

By Conor McPherson

Four early plays from the author of The Weir, with a foreword by the author.

Conor McPherson Plays: Three

Conor McPherson Plays: Three

By Conor McPherson

The third collection of plays by one of Ireland's most celebrated contemporary playwrights. Contains: Shining City, The Seafarer, The Veil, The Birds and The Dance of Death. With a foreword by the author.

Conor McPherson Plays: Two

Conor McPherson Plays: Two

By Conor McPherson

The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author.

Me, As A Penguin

Me, As A Penguin

By Tom Wells

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

The Meaning of Zong

The Meaning of Zong

By Giles Terera

Giles Terera's powerful debut play about Olaudah Equiano and the historical movement to abolish slavery – a timely response to the social upheaval the world has witnessed in recent years.

Meat

Meat

By Gillian Greer

A play about class, consent and transgressions buried in the past, set over the course of one winesoaked evening in a Dublin restaurant.

Medicine

Medicine

By Enda Walsh

A dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.

Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays
    Medicine & The Same: two plays

    Medicine & The Same: two plays

    By Enda Walsh

    Two plays by Enda Walsh: Medicine, a dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'; and The Same, about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.

    Meeting Miss Ireland

    Meeting Miss Ireland

    By Rosemary Jenkinson

    A short play commissioned and performed as part of The Fairer Sex, a series of play readings at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in June 2009.

    Published in volume Irish Shorts
      Mehndi Night

      Mehndi Night

      By Fin Kennedy

      A touching family tale about resentment and forgiveness on the night before a wedding.

      Memory

      Memory

      By Jonathan Lichtenstein

      A play about division, destiny and the undimmed potency of memory itself.

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      Merit

      Merit

      By Alexandra Wood

      A thrilling two-hander that looks at the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, the growing argument between rich and poor, and a young woman stuck in between.

      Merlin the Magnificent

      Merlin the Magnificent

      By Stuart Paterson

      The story of King Arthur, Merlin and the sword in the stone, retold by Scotland's leading writer of plays for children.

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      Mermaid

      Mermaid

      By Polly Teale

      A bold reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of love, loss and desire, transported to a contemporary setting.

      The Merthyr Stigmatist

      The Merthyr Stigmatist

      By Lisa Parry

      A fierce and exhilarating play about faith and truth, a hymn to community, and a testament to the power of young people.

      The Messiah

      The Messiah

      By Patrick Barlow

      A hilarious Christmas comedy that conjures up the sublime, the ridiculous and the truly angelic.