NHB Modern Plays

A short play about a youthful couple who can't seem to pull themselves up the rungs of the property ladder.

A short play about a parent and child who have been concealing their true identities.

Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

A monologue about love and entitlement by Camilla Whitehill, author of Where Do Little Birds Go?, who was described by The Times as 'a writer of huge promise'.

A short play about domestic abuse, and its terrifying impact on families.

A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.

A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.

A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.

A short play that tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy, Jordan, rather than have him taken away by his abusive father.

The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.

A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.

A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.

A one-act duologue by Enda Walsh which went on to inspire his play Ballyturk.