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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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When the Daffodils

When the Daffodils

By Joel Tan

A searching portrait of human kindness in a world that sets limits on how we care for the vulnerable. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season of short plays.

Published in volume Inside/Outside
    When the Rain Stops Falling

    When the Rain Stops Falling

    By Andrew Bovell

    A heartrending drama about family, betrayal and forgiveness, spanning four generations and two hemispheres. From the writer of the award-winning film Lantana.

    When They Go Low

    When They Go Low

    By Natalie Mitchell

    A play about everyday feminism, consent and the changing face of teenage sexuality in an online world. Written for the National Theatre Connections Festival.

    When This Is Over

    When This Is Over

    A Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production, and the Original Playscript

    By Ned Glasier, Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey and Company Three

    A theatrical celebration of hope, possibility and imagination, designed to be created and performed by teenage casts, drawing directly on their own life experiences and the stories they want to tell. Winner, Outstanding Drama Initiative at the Music and Drama Education Awards.

    When Winston Went to War with the Wireless

    When Winston Went to War with the Wireless

    By Jack Thorne

    A gripping and timely play about Winston Churchill, the 1920s General Strike and the birth of the BBC.

    When You Cure Me

    When You Cure Me

    By Jack Thorne

    A painful – and painfully funny – play about being very young and in love – and coping with serious illness at the same time.

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    Where I'm From

    Where I'm From

    By Laura Lomas

    A monologue play about a woman on the day of her release from prison.

    Published in volume Bird and other monologues for young women
      Where Sat the Lovers

      Where Sat the Lovers

      By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP Theatre

      A play about codes, hallucinations, Isaac Newton, war crimes, seeing meaning where there's none and vice versa. First staged by MALAPROP Theatre at the 2021 Dublin Fringe Festival.

      Whiff Whaff

      Whiff Whaff

      By Jack Thorne

      A savagely funny short play about attitudes to disability and mental health.

      Published in volume Jack Thorne Plays: Two
        While You Lie

        While You Lie

        By Sam Holcroft

        A blistering play about our need for honesty in relationships and how it can sometimes bring about their downfall.

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        Whipping It Up

        Whipping It Up

        By Steve Thompson

        A quick-witted satirical farce set in the Whips' office at Westminster.

        Whisky Galore

        Whisky Galore (stage version)

        By Compton Mackenzie Adapted by Philip Goulding

        A stage adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's comedy classic, combining rollicking physical theatre, panto and farce, with an array of hilarious characters for any female-led theatre company.

        The Whitby Rebels

        The Whitby Rebels

        By Bea Roberts

        A joyful stage play telling the (mostly) true story of a boatload of misfits on a misconceived mission to the Arctic. Premiered in 2024 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.

        The White Bike

        The White Bike

        By Tamara von Werthern

        An affecting play, based on a true story, about what happens when our world is turned upside down.

        White Lead

        White Lead

        By Jessica Siân

        A short play exploring the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.

        White Noise

        White Noise

        By Suzan-Lori Parks

        An unflinching look at race in the 21st century from both a black and white perspective, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

        Who is Sylvia?

        Who is Sylvia?

        By Terence Rattigan

        Rattigan's play about obsessive love, a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.

        Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue
          Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

          Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

          By Terence Rattigan

          Two plays from one of the leading dramatists of the 20th century.

          Why Can't We Live Together?

          Why Can't We Live Together?

          By Steve Waters

          Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.

          The Wider Earth

          The Wider Earth

          By David Morton

          A powerfully dramatic play about Charles Darwin's voyage on board HMS Beagle - an adventure that changed not only his own life, but also the history of the entire world.

          Widows

          Widows

          By Ariel Dorfman and Tony Kushner

          A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America.

          The Wife of Cyncoed

          The Wife of Cyncoed

          By Matt Hartley

          A charming and open-hearted one-woman play about self-discovery later in life.

          The Wife of Cyncoed & Idyll: two plays

          The Wife of Cyncoed & Idyll: two plays

          By Matt Hartley

          Two plays by Matt Hartley: his entertaining one-woman play, The Wife of Cyncoed, premiered at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, in 2024; and Idyll, a captivating short play premiered by Pentabus Theatre in 2021.

          Wild

          Wild

          By Mike Bartlett

          A darkly comic play that explores the unexpected, bewildering, and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level.