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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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By Kimber Lee

A powerful, hilarious play exploding lifetimes of repeating Asian stereotypes, winner of the International Award for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2019. Published alongside its staging at the Manchester International Festival 2023.

The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping

The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping

By Fin Kennedy

A bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.

The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays

The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays

By Fin Kennedy

Tender, uncompromising, haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a contemporary chronicle of the lives of East London's young women.

Urinetown: The Musical

Urinetown: The Musical

By Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann

A grand, mischevious story set in a dystopian future. Winner of three Tony Awards including Best Book of a Musical.

Ursa Major

Ursa Major

By Joe White

A heartbreakingly funny play about love, life and human connection, first performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.

Published in volume Inside/Outside
    Us/Them

    Us/Them

    By Carly Wijs

    An extraordinary, award-winning account of the Beslan School Siege, exploring the entirely individual way children cope with traumatic situations.

    Used Blood Junkyard

    Used Blood Junkyard

    By Alberto Villarreal Translated by Simon Scardifield

    Làzaro, his mates and his porn-star girlfriend are 'art terrorists'... Can anything stop their killing spree?

    Published in volume Mexican Plays
      Valhalla

      Valhalla

      By Paul Murphy

      Joint winner of the inaugural Theatre503 Playwriting Award, Valhalla depicts a world where the boundaries of scientific research and the endurance of human love are stretched to their limits.

      Valued Friends

      Valued Friends

      By Stephen Jeffreys

      A comedy of manners about the property market.

      Vassa

      Vassa

      By Maxim Gorky Adapted by Mike Bartlett

      A new adaptation by Mike Bartlett of Maxim Gorky's savagely funny play, premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London.

      The Veil

      The Veil

      By Conor McPherson

      Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, The Veil weaves Ireland’s troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time.

      Vernon God Little

      Vernon God Little (stage version)

      By DBC Pierre Adapted by Tanya Ronder

      A darkly riotous, superbly fast-talking adventure, adapted from the Booker Prize-winning novel.

      Victoria's Knickers

      Victoria's Knickers

      By Josh Azouz

      An epic romcom telling the story of an unlikely romance between the Queen of England and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Premiered by the National Youth Theatre.

      The Village

      The Village

      By Abi Falase and Tatenda Shamiso

      A punchy and provocative story about democracy, power, and how we can try to build a better world. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people.

      The Village Church

      The Village Church

      By Tamara von Werthern

      A short play about faith, families, and fitting in.

      Vincent in Brixton

      Vincent in Brixton

      By Nicholas Wright

      A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway.

      The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call

      The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call

      By Friedrich Dürrenmatt Adapted by Tony Kushner

      Dürrenmatt's visionary revenge play, one of the great achievements of modern German-language theatre, transported to mid-twentieth-century America by the acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner.

      The Visitor

      The Visitor

      By Iain Crichton Smith

      A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.

      Published in volume Family: three plays
        Voices from Ukraine: Two Plays

        Voices from Ukraine: Two Plays

        By Neda Nezhdana and Natal'ya Vorozhbit

        Two powerful plays about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by two of Ukraine's leading playwrights.

        VS09

        VS09

        By Hayley Squires

        A sharp, fast-paced exploration of the possibilities of love, friendship and healing in the search for home. In the Multiplay Drama series.

        The Waiting List

        The Waiting List

        By Owen McCafferty

        A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

        Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays
          Waiting Room Germany

          Waiting Room Germany

          By Klaus Pohl Translated by David Tushingham

          A raw and honest verbatim-theatre play about post-reunification Germany, commissioned in 1994 by Der Spiegel to test the mood of the new Germany.

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          Enda Walsh Plays: One

          Enda Walsh Plays: One

          By Enda Walsh

          The first eight astonishing plays by 'one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre'.

          Enda Walsh Plays: Two

          Enda Walsh Plays: Two

          By Enda Walsh

          The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, including The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, Penelope, Ballyturk and two short plays, with a Foreword by the author.