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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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To Sir, With Love

To Sir, With Love (stage version)

By E. R. Braithwaite Adapted by Ayub Khan Din

An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain. 

Today

Today

By Robert Holman

From a Cambridge college to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self in the midst of a shifting, uncertain world.

Tomcat

Tomcat

By James Rushbrooke

Winner of the 2015 Papatango New Writing Prize, Tomcat is a play set in a future world where diseases and disorders have been wiped out. How far will we go to keep humanity healthy?

Too Much World at Once

Too Much World at Once

By Billie Collins

An urgent coming-of-age story for our times, a lyrical, theatrical journey that spans continents and lives.

Topdog/Underdog

Topdog/Underdog

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Touch

Touch

By Vicky Jones

A shamelessly funny and brutally honest play about sex, connection and control.

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Touched

Touched

By Stephen Lowe

A revered modern classic about life in a working-class suburb of Nottingham in the closing days of World War II.

Toxic

Toxic

By Nathaniel J Hall

A powerful and passionate play about the devastating impact of generational HIV stigma, racism, homophobia and repressive gender norms. Premiered at HOME, Manchester, in 2023, before touring the UK in 2025.

trade

trade

By debbie tucker green

A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
    trade & generations: two plays

    trade & generations: two plays

    By debbie tucker green

    Two plays from the acclaimed playwright debbie tucker green.

    Traps

    Traps

    By Caryl Churchill

    An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.

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    Travelling Light

    Travelling Light

    By Nicholas Wright

    A funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age.

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    Travesty

    Travesty

    By Liam Williams

    The debut play by Liam Williams, double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee - about gender and the ethical dimensions of modern love.

    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island (stage version)

    By Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by Stuart Paterson

    A fresh and genuinely thrilling adaptation of the classic tale, and one that keeps close to Stevenson's original story.

    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete stage version)

    By Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson Original author Robert Louis Stevenson

    A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.

    The Treatment

    The Treatment

    By Martin Crimp

    Martin Crimp's razor-sharp satire about a world in which people are products, movies are money and sex sells.

    The Tree of Knowledge

    The Tree of Knowledge

    By Jo Clifford

    A wildly imaginative, hilariously provocative and deeply moving play from one of Scotland's most important playwrights.

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    Treetops

    Treetops

    By Nicholas Wright

    A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.

    Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
      Trestle

      Trestle

      By Stewart Pringle

      A tender but truthful exploration of love and ageing, asking how we choose to live in the face of soaring life expectancies. Winner of the 2017 Papatango New Writing Prize.

      The Trials

      The Trials

      By Dawn King

      A searing play set in a near-future world, where those responsible for the climate emergency are being judged by a younger generation.

      Tribes

      Tribes

      By Nina Raine

      A penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication.

      The True Life Fiction of Mata Hari

      The True Life Fiction of Mata Hari

      By Diane Samuels

      A play about the notorious World War One femme fatale known as Mata Hari.

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      Trust

      Trust

      By Gary Mitchell

      A play about the bonds of trust in a tight-knit Loyalist community, and how easily they are shattered, from the multi-award winning writer of The Force of Change.

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      truth and reconciliation

      truth and reconciliation

      By debbie tucker green

      A play about the aftermath of violence, in conflicts around the world from Rwanda to Northern Ireland, and from Zimbabwe to Bosnia.