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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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The Unfriend

The Unfriend

By Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat's hilarious satirical play about middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice.

Unbroken

Unbroken

By Alexandra Wood

A radical, modern-day re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler’s taboo-breaking 1897 play La Ronde, with its 'daisy chain' of sexual encounters.

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Ugly Lies the Bone

Ugly Lies the Bone

By Lindsey Ferrentino

An honest and funny play about a wounded veteran seeking rehabilitation through an experimental virtual reality therapy, from an award-winning American playwright.

The Tyler Sisters

The Tyler Sisters

By Alexandra Wood

A funny, heartening exploration of time, and the unassuming moments that make up our lives.

Two Princes

Two Princes

By Meredydd Barker

A bittersweet drama about life, love, loss, and sculpture.

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two Palestinians go dogging

two Palestinians go dogging

By Sami Ibrahim

A comedy that explores how the everyday becomes political and the political becomes everyday in a conflict zone.

Two Ladies

Two Ladies

By Nancy Harris

A powerful drama about the first ladies of France and America, as their husbands clash over an international crisis.

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A short play about the unfairness of growing up in a world where you don't make the rules. First performed as part of Inside/Outside, a season of short plays staged at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.

Published in volume Inside/Outside
    Two Billion Beats

    Two Billion Beats

    By Sonali Bhattacharyya

    An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.

    twins

    twins

    By James Fritz

    A short play about twins whose lives diverge, first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.

    Twilight Song

    Twilight Song

    By Kevin Elyot

    Kevin Elyot's evocative final play, a hilarious and heartbreaking tale of one family's hidden liaisons over half a century.

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    Tumulus

    Tumulus

    By Christopher Adams

    A chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath.

    Tuesdays at Tesco's

    Tuesdays at Tesco's

    By Emmanuel Darley Translated by Matthew Hurt and Sarah Vermande

    A touching one-person play about a person's true identity, the first English-language adaptation of Emmanuel Darley's hit play, Le Mardi à Monoprix.

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    Tuesday

    Tuesday

    With a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth

    By Alison Carr Translated by Daf James

    A funny and playful drama written specifically for young people, about what happens when the world literally turns upside-down. Bilingual edition: includes the original English play with a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth, by playwright Daf James.

    Trying It On

    Trying It On

    By David Edgar

    An autobiographical monologue, written to be performed by its author David Edgar, in which Edgar at seventy confronts the ideals of his twenty-something self.

    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.

    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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    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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