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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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Three Birds

Three Birds

By Janice Okoh

A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and later adapted into BBC television drama Just Act Normal.

Three Kings

Three Kings

By Stephen Beresford

A heartbreaking and hilarious play for a solo actor about fathers and sons, the gifts and burdens of inheritance, and the unfathomable puzzle of human relationships. 

The Three Lions

The Three Lions

By William Gaminara

A sharp, hilarious behind-the-scenes glimpse of diplomacy in action, centering on England's bid for the 2018 World Cup.

Three More Sleepless Nights

Three More Sleepless Nights

By Caryl Churchill

An explosive short play about human interaction and love-tangled relationships.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers (stage version)

    By John Nicholson and Le Navet Bete

    A riotously comic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, originally performed by physical-comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete.

    Three Short Plays

    Three Short Plays

    By Caryl Churchill

    Three short plays by one of the most inventive dramatists working today, each written in response to political events.

    Three Sisters On Hope Street

    Three Sisters On Hope Street

    By Diane Samuels and Tracy-Ann Oberman

    A funny, vibrant and moving version of Chekhov's Three Sisters, set amongst the Jewish community in wartime Liverpool.

    Three Women and a Piano Tuner

    Three Women and a Piano Tuner

    By Helen Cooper

    An offbeat, lyrical drama about how our hopes and dreams can be thwarted by the choices we make - and by the ones we don't make.

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    The Thrill of Love

    The Thrill of Love

    By Amanda Whittington

    A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

    Through a Cloud

    Through a Cloud

    By Jack Shepherd

    A historical play about a battle of wits between Oliver Cromwell and John Milton, by the well-known actor Jack Shepherd.

    Through A Glass Darkly

    Through A Glass Darkly (stage version)

    By Ingmar Bergman Adapted by Jenny Worton

    A poignant and sensuous stage adaptation of the 1961 Oscar-winning film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.

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    Through the Mud

    Through the Mud

    By Apphia Campbell

    The story of two generations of women activists in the struggle for Black liberation in America. From the Fringe First-winning creator of the hit show Black is the Color of My Voice.

    Thrown

    Thrown

    By Nat McCleary

    A poignant, dynamic play exploring belonging and identity, premiered by the National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival.

    Thrown

    Thrown

    By Jodi Gray

    A child-psychologist attempts to record what she's spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.

    Thunderbox

    Thunderbox

    By Genevieve Barr

    A short monologue play about a pregnant wheelchair user facing a tough decision, 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
      Tickets are Now On Sale

      Tickets are Now On Sale

      By Caryl Churchill

      A short play about sponsorship and the arts.

      Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
        Tiger Country

        Tiger Country

        By Nina Raine

        A hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.

        Tilt

        Tilt

        By Ailis Ni Riain

        A beautifully simple debut play, about a woman's search for answers to her family's self destruction.

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        The Time Machine: A Comedy

        The Time Machine: A Comedy

        By Steven Canny and John Nicholson

        A fast-paced, wise-cracking, riotous play, loosely based on H.G. Wells's masterpiece, that zips from the nineteenth century to the end of the world, and (with any luck) back again.

        Time Spent on Trains

        Time Spent on Trains

        By Elizabeth Kuti

        A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.

        Published in volume Fishskin Trousers
          A Time to Keep

          A Time to Keep

          By Stephanie Dale and David Edgar

          A large-scale historical romp in the terrain between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

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          A Time to Reap

          A Time to Reap

          By Anna Wakulik Translated by Catherine Grosvenor

          A play that follows one woman from a Polish village to the bright lights of London, exploring the issue of abortion and the Catholic Church.

          Tinderbox

          Tinderbox

          By Lucy Kirkwood

          A fast, wild and farcically funny play with a disturbing vision of a dystopian future.

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          Tituba

          Tituba

          By Winsome Pinnock

          Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.