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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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The Princess and the Goblin

The Princess and the Goblin

By Stuart Paterson

A rich and magical play for all the family, from a master of storytelling.

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Princess Essex

Princess Essex

By Anne Odeke

A riotous, satirical comedy based on the amazing true story of the first woman of colour to enter a beauty pageant in the UK. First performed at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in 2024.

The Prisoner

The Prisoner

By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne

A provocative study of what it means to be free, by the internationally acclaimed theatre director and his long-time collaborator.

The Prisoner's Dilemma

The Prisoner's Dilemma

By David Edgar

An urgently topical account of a bloody conflict on Europe's Eastern borders. The third in David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy.

Prodigal

Prodigal

By Kalungi Ssebandeke

A short play about community, identity and the enduring strength of family ties. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.

Published in volume Inside/Outside
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    By debbie tucker green

    Three couples. What might be. What once was. What could have been.

    Pronoun

    Pronoun

    By Evan Placey

    A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean - commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

    Protection

    Protection

    By Fin Kennedy

    A tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and the people who have to pick up the pieces.

    The Pull of Negative Gravity

    The Pull of Negative Gravity

    By Jonathan Lichtenstein

    Shocking and beautiful, a powerful play about the impact of a soldier's injury in a foreign conflict on his family back home.

    Purgatorio

    Purgatorio

    By Ariel Dorfman

    A powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos and Euripides' Medea. From the author of Death and the Maiden.

    Purple Heart

    Purple Heart

    By Bruce Norris

    A deeply moving meditation on love, loss and grief, from the author of Clybourne Park.

    Push Up

    Push Up

    By Roland Schimmelpfennig Translated by Maja Zade

    A savage satire on the rapacious nature of office lives and lusts - the British debut from a writer whose work has been seen in prestigious theatres all over Germany.

    Puss in Boots

    Puss in Boots

    By Stuart Paterson

    A brilliantly inventive version of the classic tale, from the 'master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

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    Pussycat in Memory of Darkness

    Pussycat in Memory of Darkness

    By Neda Nezhdana Translated by John Farndon

    A powerful play about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by one of Ukraine's leading playwrights.

    Published in volume Voices from Ukraine: Two Plays
      Queen Anne

      Queen Anne

      By Helen Edmundson

      Helen Edmundson's gripping play tells the little-known story of a monarch caught between friendship and duty.

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      Queen Margaret

      Queen Margaret

      By William Shakespeare Adapted by Jeanie O'Hare

      Using Shakespeare’s orginal lines, alongside new text, Jeanie O’Hare retells The Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the extraordinary Margaret of Anjou.

      Queers: Eight Monologues

      Queers: Eight Monologues

      By Various Created by Mark Gatiss

      Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals.

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      By various Created by Mark Gatiss

      Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals.

      Quelques Fleurs

      Quelques Fleurs

      By Liz Lochhead

      A short play from the leading Scottish poet and playwright.

      The Quiet House

      The Quiet House

      By Gareth Farr

      An exploration of infertility and the taboo that surrounds it, The Quiet House is a funny, moving and unswervingly honest love story.

      Rabbit

      Rabbit

      By Nina Raine

      A fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st century.

      Rabbit Hole

      Rabbit Hole

      By David Lindsay-Abaire

      The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a happy suburban couple whose lives are changed forever when their young son is killed in an accident.

      Rafta, Rafta...

      Rafta, Rafta...

      By Ayub Khan Din

      A hugely warm-hearted, comic tale of close-knit Indian family life in England, by the author of East is East.

      The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

      The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (stage version)

      By Robert Tressell Adapted by Howard Brenton

      Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators, vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.