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.
Ayub Khan Din Plays: One
A collection of plays written and introduced by actor-turned-writer Ayub Khan Din, including his first play, East is East, which became a smash-hit film.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)
Two plays
By Steve WatersA double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99MALAPROP: plays
By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP TheatreFour plays from the award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers: bold, playful, genre-spanning work, all premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival between 2017 and 2023.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)
Two plays
By Steve WatersA double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. Original 2009 edition.
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Hedda
By Lucy Kirkwood Original author Henrik IbsenA startling new version of Hedda Gabler, relocating Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine to London in 2008.
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£13.99£11.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£13.99£11.19Apologia
A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19Holding the Man (stage version)
By Tommy Murphy Original author Timothy ConigraveThe remarkable true-life love story, adapted from Timothy Conigrave's memoir of growing up gay in 1970s Melbourne.
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By Nancy HarrisA tender and funny tale about our secret selves, and our search for connection in a fractured world.
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By Joshua Sobol Adapted by David LanThe true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre.
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Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
By Rona MunroTwo plays, from the award-winning author Rona Munro.
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The Shakespeare Revue
An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Holes in the Skin
A gripping play about the nature of violence.
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A comedy drama about an all-female theatre company touring Britain during the darkest days of World War Two, written by the well-known actress and premiered in the West End.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19Mary Shelley
A biographical play about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Premiered by Shared Experience.
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By Ben MusgraveA tender and funny play about growing up in Romford in the shadow of Canary Wharf, winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.
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Tiger Country
By Nina RaineA hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19Image of an Unknown Young Woman
By Elinor CookA startlingly theatrical look at what happens when a politically inflammatory video goes viral and it all kicks off.
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