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.
Duologue
Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.
Enter A Gentleman
A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.
Fair
A powerful drama about the potent appeal of far right policies to young people in the UK.
Felt Effects
A play that unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.
Fugue
A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.
generations
A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...
Harlequinade
A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.
House
A play about family, culture clash, memory and truth, commissioned by acclaimed theatre company Clean Break.
I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me
An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.
In a Little World of Our Own
A powerful drama about how the conflict in Northern Ireland affects whole families, and of how the violence of the streets is brought into the heart of the home.
Jonesy
A short play from the author of Jumpers for Goalposts.
Kitchen
A short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.
Limbo
A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.
Little Certainties
Mario is missing, presumed dead. In the town of Tijuana, his brother and sister make a shocking discovery about Mario and his secrets.
Lost
The second play in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly.
Making Noise Quietly (short play)
The third in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly.
Miseryguts
A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.
misterman (2001 edition)
A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.