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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Miseryguts & Tartuffe

Two plays by Molière

Two plays from Molière, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' (Scotland on Sunday).

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Miseryguts

By Liz Lochhead Original author Molière

A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.

Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

    Tartuffe

    By Molière Adapted by Liz Lochhead

    A rollicking Scots version of Molière's classic of political satire and black comedy.

    Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

      The Night Heron

      A dark, funny, spellbinding play about a group of outcasts and eccentrics gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens.

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      Vincent in Brixton

      A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway.

      Julie Burchill Is Away

      A one-woman show based on the life and writings of the provocative columnist, writer and broadcaster, Julie Burchill.

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      Mother Teresa is Dead

      A gripping play exploring Western guilt towards the Third World, from an author well-known for her award-winning adaptations for Shared Experience and the National Theatre.

      Iron

      An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them.

      Closing Time

      McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.

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      The Browning Version

      Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage.

      Harlequinade

      A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.

      Published in volume The Browning Version

        Homers

        A tough and funny play about Glaswegian orphans forcibly transplanted to the Islands.

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        Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

        Three astute, savvy early plays from Belfast writer Owen McCafferty.

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        I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

        An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.

        Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

          The Waiting List

          A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

          Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

            Shoot the Crow

            An endearing yet hard-hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living.

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            Far Away

            A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists.

            dirty butterfly

            A mesmerising and startling play about voyeurism, power and guilt.