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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.

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Spanish Plays

Spanish Plays

Edited by Elyse Dodgson and Mary Peate

A collection of modern Spanish and Catalan plays in translations by practising English playwrights, commissioned and first staged by the Royal Court Theatre.

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The Deep Blue Sea

The Deep Blue Sea

By Terence Rattigan

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy

By Terence Rattigan

Rattigan's 1946 play based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order.

King of the Fields

King of the Fields

By Stuart Paterson

A play set in Ayrshire after the First World War, with touches of Ibsen - from the acclaimed Scottish playwright.

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Dublin Carol

Dublin Carol

By Conor McPherson

A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.

A Place at the Table

A Place at the Table

By Simon Block

A play about the dog-eat-dog world of television.

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Wit

Wit

By Margaret Edson

A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love.

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Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

By Nicholas Wright

A rich selection of work by leading playwright Nicholas Wright, introduced by the playwright.

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Treetops

Treetops

By Nicholas Wright

A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
    The Custom of the Country

    The Custom of the Country

    By Nicholas Wright

    Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

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      The Desert Air

      The Desert Air

      By Nicholas Wright

      A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

      Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
        One Fine Day

        One Fine Day

        By Nicholas Wright

        A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.

        Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
          Cressida

          Cressida

          By Nicholas Wright

          A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

          Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer

          Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer

          By Michel Tremblay Translated by Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay

          A bold, quirky play from the renowned Quebecois writer, translated into a robust and earthy Scots.

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          Mr Kolpert

          Mr Kolpert

          By David Gieselmann Translated by David Tushingham

          A delightfully morbid black comedy with a nod to Hitchcock's Rope.

          Albert Speer

          Albert Speer

          By David Edgar

          A panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.

          Kes

          Kes (stage version)

          By Barry Hines Adapted by Lawrence Till

          A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel.

          Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays

          Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays

          By Marie Jones

          Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, and an earlier monologue A Night in November.

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