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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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Raging: Embargo

Raging: Embargo

The War of Independence

By Deirdre Kinahan

A poetic, bloody and heroic tale of industrial action and civic resistance, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.

Raging: Outrage

Raging: Outrage

The Civil War

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play exploring women's roles in the Irish revolutionary wars, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.

Raging: Three Plays/Seven Years of Warfare in Ireland

Raging: Three Plays/Seven Years of Warfare in Ireland

Wild Sky, Embargo & Outrage

By Deirdre Kinahan

A trilogy of landmark plays - Wild Sky, Embargo and Outrage - commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising to the Civil War which began in 1922.

Raging: Wild Sky

Raging: Wild Sky

The Rising

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play exploring the extraordinary energy and complexity of events in Ireland in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.

The Railway Children

The Railway Children (stage version)

By E. Nesbit Adapted by Mike Kenny

An imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic.

Ramallah

Ramallah

By David Greig

A short play about a writer returning home from Palestine to his wife, and being gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie.

Ramona Tells Jim

Ramona Tells Jim

By Sophie Wu

A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love.

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By debbie tucker green

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.

Rank

Rank

By Robert Massey

A darkly comic thriller set in the grim, seething and sometimes hilarious criminal world of Dublin's suburbs.

Rappaccini's Daughter

Rappaccini's Daughter

By Octavio Paz Translated by Sebastian Doggart

The only play by leading Mexican poet Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Rapture

Rapture

By Lucy Kirkwood

A slippery thriller for the stage, about love, power and belief. In a modern world where reality is whatever we imagine it to be, how do we know the stories we tell ourselves are true?

Rathmines Road

Rathmines Road

By Deirdre Kinahan

Fraught, funny, and ferocious, a play that challenges the cultural response to accusations of sexual assault.

Rattigan's Nijinsky

Rattigan's Nijinsky

By Nicholas Wright and Terence Rattigan

The extraordinary story of the relationship between the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, drawing on an unproduced screenplay by Terence Rattigan.

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Raya

Raya

By Deborah Bruce

A witty and tender play about two old flames who meet again, after thirty years, at a student reunion.

Reader

Reader

By Ariel Dorfman

A compulsive, gripping and intense play from the author of Death and the Maiden.

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The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man

The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man

By Tom Wright

A powerful, angry and surprising play about the person who came to be known as 'the Elephant Man', restoring Joseph Merrick to the centre of his own story.

The Real Deal

The Real Deal

By Tom Wentworth

A short monologue play exploring the issue of benefits fraud, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
    The Real Estate

    The Real Estate

    By Freddie Machin

    A sharply observed, epic play combining elements of social realism and satire, which asks: who do our homes really belong to, and who gets to tell our stories? In the Multiplay Drama series.

    The Real Ones

    The Real Ones

    By Waleed Akhtar

    A funny and honest stage play about platonic soulmates. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024.

    Rebellious Women

    Rebellious Women

    By Beth Flintoff

    An impassioned, unsentimental and sharp-witted play about the Suffragette cause, with rich opportunities for schools, youth theatres and drama societies who want to tell the story of a group of extraordinary women who changed the world.

    Red

    Red

    By Chris Fittock

    A viscerally poetic debut play commissioned by LLT, Liverpool's New Writing Theatre.

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    Red

    Red

    By Somalia Seaton

    An unflinching and bold exploration of the internal lives of young women. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre.

    Red Bud

    Red Bud

    By Brett Neveu

    A play exploring the creeping onset of middle age in a group of people increasingly disillusioned by the American Dream.

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    Red Car, Blue Car

    Red Car, Blue Car

    By Jack Thorne

    A heartbreaking short play about guilt, grief and responsibility, written for and performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2011.