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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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Tribes

Tribes

By Nina Raine

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

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.

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.

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
    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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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    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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    trade & generations: two plays

    trade & generations: two plays

    By debbie tucker green

    Two plays from the acclaimed playwright debbie tucker green.

    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
      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.

      Touch

      Touch

      By Vicky Jones

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

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      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.

      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.

      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?

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