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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Rabbit Hole

By David Lindsay-Abaire

The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a happy suburban couple whose lives are changed forever when their young son is killed in an accident.

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Four Play

By Jake Brunger

A comic play about sex and commitment in the 21st century.

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Bird

By Katherine Chandler

Winner of a Judges Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Bird is a raw, delicate and bold play about growing up in a care home, and eventually leaving it for the outside world.

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Folk

By Tom Wells

Surprising and poignant, Folk is a hilarious and not-so-holy story of hope, coming together and finding your feet when your world is turned upside down.

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Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales (stage version)

Adapted by Philip Wilson Original author Philip Pullman

A deliciously dark version of the Grimm Tales, from master storyteller Philip Pullman.

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This is Living

By Liam Borrett

A poignant exploration of what it means to say goodbye.

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Wish List

By Katherine Soper

A sensitive, delicate and powerful play that asks what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you. Winner of the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

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Cathy

By Ali Taylor

A candid, poignant and intimate play about the lives of those at the sharp end of economic austerity, inspired by Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home.

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Woyzeck

By Georg Büchner Adapted by Jack Thorne

The multi-award-winning Jack Thorne breathes new life into Georg Büchner's existential masterpiece, Woyzeck, one of the most extraordinary plays ever written.

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Plays from VAULT 2

Five new plays from VAULT Festival

An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.

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Natives

By Glenn Waldron

A play about a generation of unlikely heroes that celebrates coming of age online in a chaotic world.

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Out of Love

By Elinor Cook

A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.

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Kanye the First

By Sam Steiner

A dazzlingly funny and original drama about identity, guilt, contemporary culture and the second coming of Kanye West.

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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.