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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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Take Me Away

Take Me Away

By Gerald Murphy

A dark but very funny comedy about the collapse of a family of feckless chancers and no-hopers.

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Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha

Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha

By Natal'ya Vorozhbit Translated by Sasha Dugdale

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
    Takeaway

    Takeaway

    By Nathan Powell

    A big-hearted comedy set around a Caribbean takeaway in the heart of Liverpool. Premiered at the Liverpool Everyman in 2025.

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    Taken

    Taken

    By Winsome Pinnock

    A short play about a mother confronted by the child she had to give up.

    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities (stage version)

    Adapted by Mike Poulton Original author Charles Dickens

    A thrilling, fast-paced adaptation of the classic novel, considered by Dickens 'the best story I have ever written'.

    Tambo & Bones

    Tambo & Bones

    By Dave Harris

    A daring theatrical exploration of the intersection of race, capitalism and performance, by slam poet turned playwright Dave Harris.

    Tape

    Tape

    By Stephen Belber

    An unsettling and unpredictable drama about the love-hate chemistry that endures between friends.

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    Tapped

    Tapped

    By Katie Redford

    A witty and sensitive portrayal of managing mental health within a family, highlighting the barriers we put up in order to put on a brave face.

    Tartuffe

    Tartuffe

    By Molière Adapted by Liz Lochhead

    A rollicking Scots version of Molière's classic of political satire and black comedy.

    Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe
      The Taxidermist's Daughter

      The Taxidermist's Daughter (stage version)

      By Kate Mosse

      A thrilling Gothic story of violence, retribution and justice, adapted for the stage by Kate Mosse from her own internationally best-selling novel.

      Tearing the Loom

      Tearing the Loom

      By Gary Mitchell

      A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.

      Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own
        Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own

        Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own

        By Gary Mitchell

        Two plays from playwright Gary Mitchell, known for his powerful explorations of the conflicts troubling Northern Ireland.

        Teddy Ferrara

        Teddy Ferrara

        By Christopher Shinn

        An insightful and revealing play, inspired by real events, which explores society's uncomfortable embrace of the outsider.

        Teenage Dick

        Teenage Dick

        By Mike Lew

        A darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power.

        Temple

        Temple

        By Steve Waters

        A fictional account of the 2011 Occupy London movement, set in the heart of a very British crisis – a crisis of conscience, a crisis of authority and a crisis of faith.

        Ten Tiny Toes

        Ten Tiny Toes

        By Esther Wilson

        An uncompromising account of the heartbreaking choices faced by mothers today and what happens when a distant war comes home.

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        Tender

        Tender

        By Eleanor Tindall

        A chance meeting leads to giddy kisses in a play about two women who find each other without even knowing they were looking. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024.

        A Tender Thing

        A Tender Thing

        By Ben Power

        Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story.

        Terminus

        Terminus

        By Mark O'Rowe

        A blackly comic vision of Dublin infested with demons.

        Terrorism

        Terrorism

        By The Presnyakov Brothers Translated by Sasha Dugdale

        The extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia.

        Testament

        Testament

        By Tristan Bernays

        The dark underside of the Greatest Story Ever Told.

        Testing the Echo

        Testing the Echo

        By David Edgar

        A timely, provocative and witty look at the campaign to redefine Britishness for a multicultural society.

        Testmatch

        Testmatch

        By Kate Attwell

         A funny and provocative play about women's cricket, colonial India and the mythology of fair play. 

        That Almost Unnameable Lust

        That Almost Unnameable Lust

        By Rebecca Lenkiewicz

        A short play about a writer holding workshops with older women in a prison.