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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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Shibboleth

Shibboleth

By Stacey Gregg

An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast.

Shifters

Shifters

By Benedict Lombe

A fierce, funny and intoxicating play about the enduring power – and fragility – of memory and love. Published alongside the 2024 West End transfer.

Shimmer

Shimmer

By Linda McLean

Surrounded by rain, rivers, lochs and floods, three generations of memory and experience ebb and flow through this lyrical play.

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Shining City

Shining City

By Conor McPherson

A brilliant, haunting play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

Shining Souls

Shining Souls

By Chris Hannan

A riotously funny comedy with a gallery of unforgettable characters, published here in a revised version alongside its revival at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2003.

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Shook

Shook

By Samuel Bailey

A tender and honest play examining the young men society shuts away. Winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Shoot the Crow

Shoot the Crow

By Owen McCafferty

An endearing yet hard-hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living.

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Shout

Shout

By Alexis Zegerman

A funny, moving drama about anxiety, celebrating difference, and finding your voice as a teenager. Part of the 2024 National Theatre Connections Festival.

Shush

Shush

By Elaine Murphy

A funny and insightful play about the power of female friendship.

The Silence and the Noise

The Silence and the Noise

By Tom Powell

A play that beautifully captures the story of two young people on the edge. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Published in volume Papatango Plays
    Singer

    Singer

    By Peter Flannery

    An epic fable of post-war Britain, told with lurid and exhilarating energy.

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    A Single Act

    A Single Act

    By Jane Bodie

    A subtle and menacing play about life after a terrorist outrage.

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    Singular Female Voices

    Singular Female Voices

    By Moira Buffini, Anna Reynolds, Catherine Johnson and Stewart Permutt

    Three remarkable short plays for one (female) actor.

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    Singular Male Voices

    Singular Male Voices

    By Peter Harness, Owen McCafferty and Ronan O'Donnell

    Three plays for one (male) actor, each giving voice to a character in extremis.

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    Sink

    Sink

    By John O'Donovan

    A play of two voices for one actor, about memory, catastrophe and sacrifice.

    Six Acts of Love

    Six Acts of Love

    By Ioanna Anderson

    A bittersweet play about the rich complexities of life, love and death.

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    Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong version)

    By Luigi Pirandello Adapted by Rupert Goold and Ben Power

    Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong.

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    The Six-Days World

    The Six-Days World

    By Elizabeth Kuti

    An emotionally involving family play that evokes the poignancy and the poison of the festive season - from the award-winning writer of The Sugar Wife.

    Sixty Five Miles

    Sixty Five Miles

    By Matt Hartley

    A devastating drama about family and the ties that bind us together. Winner of the Under-26 Award at the 2005 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

    The Skriker

    The Skriker

    By Caryl Churchill

    An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

    Skunk

    Skunk

    By Zawe Ashton

    A surreal, dreamlike and hilarious play exploring the pressures and transformations that happen to teenagers as they grow up. In the Multiplay Drama series.

    Skyscraper Lullaby

    Skyscraper Lullaby

    By James Fritz

    A powerful drama about two parents trying to come to terms with the disappearance of their toddler, written and first performed as an audio drama for Audible Original.

    Slave Play

    Slave Play

    By Jeremy O. Harris

    A play that rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America. New edition published alongside the West End production in 2024.

    The Slaves of Solitude

    The Slaves of Solitude (stage version)

    By Patrick Hamilton Adapted by Nicholas Wright

    A fascinating blend of dark hilarity and melancholy, woven from Patrick Hamilton’s much-loved story about an improbable heroine in wartime Britain.