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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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Battlefield

Battlefield

By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne

The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière revisit the great Indian epic The Mahabharata, thirty years after Brook’s legendary production took world theatre by storm.

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Bazaar

Bazaar

By David Planell Translated by John Clifford

A play by young Spanish dramatist David Planell, about the hilarious attempt to get an accident video shown on TV, releasing undercurrents of racism in society.

Bé Carna

Bé Carna

By Deirdre Kinahan

A short play in which five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin.

Be My Baby

Be My Baby

By Amanda Whittington

A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.

Beached

Beached

By Melissa Bubnic

A darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns.

The Beacon

The Beacon

By Nancy Harris

A drama about a Dublin artist haunted by a mysterious accident in her past.

Beautiful Eyes

Beautiful Eyes

By Caryl Churchill

A short play about a family divided by politics, first performed in the week of Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
    The Beautiful Future is Coming

    The Beautiful Future is Coming

    By Flora Wilson Brown

    A fresh, fast-paced and funny play covering 250 years of climate crisis. At Bristol Old Vic in 2025.

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    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre stage version)

    By Lucy Kirkwood and Katie Mitchell

    Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.

    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast (Lyceum Theatre stage version)

    By Stuart Paterson

    A brilliant version of the classic tale, from a playwright acclaimed as 'the master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

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    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast

    By Laurence Boswell

    A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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    A Bed of Roses

    A Bed of Roses

    By Mike Bradwell

    An acerbic and funny play about middle-class hypocrisy and universal apathy.

    Published in volume Inventing the Truth: Devising and Directing for the Theatre
      bedbound

      bedbound

      By Enda Walsh

      A ferocious two-hander about a father-daughter relationship gone horribly and terrifyingly wrong.

      bedbound & misterman: two plays

      bedbound & misterman: two plays

      By Enda Walsh

      Two early plays from the acclaimed Irish writer Enda Walsh.

      Before It Rains

      Before It Rains

      By Katherine Chandler

      Funny, brave and beautifully told, Before It Rains is a tale of parenthood, protection and provocation set on a proud, forgotten Cardiff estate.

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      Before You Say Anything

      Before You Say Anything

      By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP Theatre

      A play that questions how everyone can be safe at the same time. A time-travelling set of interweaving stories exploring injustice, freedom and bravery.

      Being Friends

      Being Friends

      By Robert Holman

      The first of the three plays that make up Robert Holman's acclaimed dramatic trilogy Making Noise Quietly.

      Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
        Belfry

        Belfry

        By Billy Roche

        A deeply moving tale about what lies beneath the surface of everyday lives.

        Published in volume The Wexford Trilogy
          Belleville

          Belleville

          By Amy Herzog

          Amy Herzog's devastating play about an American newlywed couple who move to a boho neighbourhood in Paris, only for their relationship to begin to unravel.

          Bellringers

          Bellringers

          By Daisy Hall

          A comic and deeply moving play about being young at the end of the world. Premiered at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Hampstead Theatre, London.

          Berlin Bertie

          Berlin Bertie

          By Howard Brenton

          An intimate and at times savagely funny psychological study of two sisters, one of who has made her home in East Berlin and one who has stayed on in their native London.

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          Better Days Better Knights

          Better Days Better Knights

          By Stanley Eveling

          A sweet-hearted tale of a washed-up knight-of-old, from the grandfather of modern Scottish playwriting.

          Big Big Sky

          Big Big Sky

          By Tom Wells

          A beautifully tender new play that explores nature's influence on love, friendship and family – the belief that anyone who's lost can be found, even in the remotest of places.

          Big Ole Piece of Cake

          Big Ole Piece of Cake

          By Sean McLoughlin

          A sparky play from the winner of the Irish Times Best New Play Award and the Stewart Parker Trust Award (for Noah and the Tower Flower).

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