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.
The Shape of the Table
An urgent political play about the collapse of an Eastern Bloc government at the end of 1989. Part of David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy of plays.
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The Guid Sisters and other plays
Three plays from the renowned Quebecois writer.
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The Guid Sisters
Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.
Manon / Sandra
A controversial but humane play about an obsessively religious girl and a sex-obsessed transvestite, by the renowned Quebecois writer.
Albertine in Five Times
A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.
Sweeney Todd
The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.
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Light in the Village
A devastatingly effective modern parable about poverty and corruption in an Indian village.
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Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
Part One of the two-part Angels in America, an epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.
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A Moon for the Misbegotten
The last work from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, continuing the semi-autobiographical cycle centring on the Tyrone family.
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Grace
A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.
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A Going Concern
A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.
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An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.
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By Tony KushnerThe second part of Tony Kushner's acclaimed epic drama set during the Reagan years in America.
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Dora: A Case of Hysteria
A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.
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My Heart's a Suitcase & Low Level Panic
Two modern feminist classics by a writer who was amongst the extraordinary generation of British female playwrights to emerge in the 1980s.
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The Mill on the Floss (stage version)
By George Eliot Adapted by Helen EdmundsonA re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.
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The Clearing
A powerful play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland.
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New Irish Plays
Edited by David GrantFour Irish plays from the late 1980s, selected and introduced by David Grant of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
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