NHB Modern Plays

A short play about faith, families, and fitting in.

A futuristic comedy about conception, state control and rebellion.

A short play by Georgia Christou that looks at duty, love and dependency across three generations of women.

A fiercely funny short play by Rose Lewenstein, investigating what feminism means, and what it has become.

Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.

A heartbreaking short play about guilt, grief and responsibility, written for and performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2011.

A short dark comedy from Spain, in which a naive middle-aged transvestite encounters a petty thief nicknamed 'sour face'.

A short play exploring the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.

A poetic and heart-rending play written in response to the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.

A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, dissecting the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.

A short play about three very different women at a gay nightclub in Orlando, who are caught up in a terrifying hate crime.

A short play by Timberlake Wertenbaker about an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan.

A short play that explores our changing attitudes towards the landscape.

Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.

A monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.

A vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.

A searing examination of the culture of body-shaming, exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media.