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.
Tearing the Loom
A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.
Jane Eyre (Shared Experience stage version)
A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage.
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Passing Places
A road movie for the stage, following two young Scottish lads on their trip from dislocation to location.
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The Resistance Trilogy
Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by the author.
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Bad Weather
A play about freedom, guilt and the possibility of redemption, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Love Upon the Throne
A gleefully comic retelling of the Charles and Diana story, designed to be performed by two (male) actors.
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Howie the Rookie
By Mark O'RoweA white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable.
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Perfect Days
By Liz LochheadA funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.
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Family: three plays
A triptych of short plays on the theme of family from three generations of Scottish writers.
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Acts
A short play about an old couple whose son returns after years of absence.
Published in volume Family: three plays
The Visitor
A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.
Published in volume Family: three plays
Just the Three of Us
By Simon GrayA stylish mix of the comic and the macabre, exploring ideas about love, both platonic and romantic.
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Trust
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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This is a Chair
A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.
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The Clink
A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.
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Last Dance at Dum Dum
A serious comedy from the author of East is East, about the dying breed of Anglo-Indians living in Calcutta in 1985.
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Arabian Nights (Young Vic stage version)
A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.
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Riddance
By Linda McLeanA chilling emotional thriller about two men and a woman bound together by the secrets of surviving a childhood in a Glasgow tenement.
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