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.
Room 303
A short monologue inspired by the Third Epistle of John and first produced by the Bush Theatre, London, as part of the Sixty-Six Books season in 2011.
Poor Beast in the Rain
A slice of small-town life, set in a betting shop in Wexford. Part of Billy Roche's acclaimed Wexford Trilogy.
Belfry
A deeply moving tale about what lies beneath the surface of everyday lives.
Disco Pigs
Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits
Sucking Dublin
A fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.
A Girl's Bedroom
A short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.
A Mouthful of Birds
A collaborative piece written with David Lan, combining words and dance. Inspired by Euripides' Bacchae, the play explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves'.
A Night in November
The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.
About a Goth
A short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.
All On Her Own
A powerfully atmospheric one-woman play, All On Her Own tells the story of Rosemary who, alone at midnight in London, has a secret burden to share that is both heartbreaking and sinister.
Almost Nothing
An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.
Aloe Aloe
A provocative short play about parenthood and responsibility, from the author of Mr Incredible and Where Do Little Birds Go?.
Amongst the Reeds
Two friends scratch out a living on the margins of society in a play commissioned by acclaimed theatre company Clean Break.
Amphibians
A rite-of-passage play in which a twelve-year-old boy spends the night alone on an island.
At the Table
An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.
Being Friends
The first of the three plays that make up Robert Holman's acclaimed dramatic trilogy Making Noise Quietly.
Catherine Medbh
A bittersweet and hesitant duologue in a bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers.
Daughters of the Revolution
A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.