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.
What Love Is
A short play about caring for your parents.
Isolated But Open
Voices from Across The Shutdown
Twelve new monologues written in response to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 as part of Papatango's scheme to inspire creativity and share brilliant new stories.
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Burgerz
A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.
40 Days
A play exploring the impact of state violence on Black and brown children.
Medicine
A dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.
The Same
A play about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.
Air
A resonant and surreal short piece published alongside What If If Only.
Some Of Us Exist In The Future
An utterly original, wryly funny play about one woman's search for a place to belong in a world that's not all it seems. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Ghost Stories from an Old Country
A riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us, threaded through with captivating fables. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
The Silence and the Noise
A play that beautifully captures the story of two young people on the edge. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
SAUCE
A play about death and rebirth, from an award-winning Irish playwright.
All honey
A play about sex, secrets and suspicion, winner of the 2017 Fishamble New Writing Award.
Phoenix
A powerful story of fire and destruction, self-deceit and the corrosion of trust.
Guidesky and I
A funny and poignant drama about loneliness and the opportunity for connection, first performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.
When the Daffodils
A searching portrait of human kindness in a world that sets limits on how we care for the vulnerable. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season of short plays.
Ursa Major
A heartbreakingly funny play about love, life and human connection, first performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.
Two Billion Beats (short play version)
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.
The Kiss
A tender, funny and beautifully observed study of lives in limbo, and a glimmer of hope for what lies ahead. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.
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