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.
The Unfriend
Steven Moffat's hilarious satirical play about middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Unbroken
A radical, modern-day re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler’s taboo-breaking 1897 play La Ronde, with its 'daisy chain' of sexual encounters.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Ugly Lies the Bone
An honest and funny play about a wounded veteran seeking rehabilitation through an experimental virtual reality therapy, from an award-winning American playwright.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Tyler Sisters
A funny, heartening exploration of time, and the unassuming moments that make up our lives.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Two Princes
A bittersweet drama about life, love, loss, and sculpture.
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two Palestinians go dogging
By Sami IbrahimA comedy that explores how the everyday becomes political and the political becomes everyday in a conflict zone.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Two Ladies
By Nancy HarrisA powerful drama about the first ladies of France and America, as their husbands clash over an international crisis.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Two Billion Beats (short play version)
A short play about the unfairness of growing up in a world where you don't make the rules. First performed as part of Inside/Outside, a season of short plays staged at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.
Published in volume Inside/OutsideTwo Billion Beats
An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79twins
By James FritzA short play about twins whose lives diverge, first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.
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£3.99£3.19
Twilight Song
By Kevin ElyotKevin Elyot's evocative final play, a hilarious and heartbreaking tale of one family's hidden liaisons over half a century.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99Tumulus
A chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath.
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Tuesdays at Tesco's
A touching one-person play about a person's true identity, the first English-language adaptation of Emmanuel Darley's hit play, Le Mardi à Monoprix.
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£7.99£6.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£7.99£6.39Tuesday
With a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth
By Alison Carr Translated by Daf JamesA funny and playful drama written specifically for young people, about what happens when the world literally turns upside-down. Bilingual edition: includes the original English play with a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth, by playwright Daf James.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Trying It On
By David EdgarAn autobiographical monologue, written to be performed by its author David Edgar, in which Edgar at seventy confronts the ideals of his twenty-something self.
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truth and reconciliation
A play about the aftermath of violence, in conflicts around the world from Rwanda to Northern Ireland, and from Zimbabwe to Bosnia.
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£11.99£9.59
Trust
A play about the bonds of trust in a tight-knit Loyalist community, and how easily they are shattered, from the multi-award winning writer of The Force of Change.
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The True Life Fiction of Mata Hari
A play about the notorious World War One femme fatale known as Mata Hari.
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