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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Be My Baby

By Amanda Whittington

A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.

Beached

By Melissa Bubnic

3-7f 1-4m

A darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns.

The Beacon

By Nancy Harris

2f 3m

A drama about a Dublin artist haunted by a mysterious accident in her past.

Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre stage version)

By Lucy Kirkwood and Katie Mitchell

3f 3m doubling

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.

Beauty and the Beast (Lyceum Theatre stage version)

By Stuart Paterson

4f 4m doubling, or 6f 7m

A brilliant version of the classic tale, from a playwright acclaimed as 'the master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

Beauty and the Beast

By Laurence Boswell

4f 5m plus optional chorus (large cast possible)

A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A Bed of Roses

By Mike Bradwell

3f 4m

An acerbic and funny play about middle-class hypocrisy and universal apathy.

Published in volume Inventing the Truth: Devising and Directing for the Theatre

bedbound

By Enda Walsh

1f 1m

A ferocious two-hander about a father-daughter relationship gone horribly and terrifyingly wrong.

Before It Rains

By Katherine Chandler

1f (forties - fifties) 2m (twenties)

Funny, brave and beautifully told, Before It Rains is a tale of parenthood, protection and provocation set on a proud, forgotten Cardiff estate.

Before You Say Anything

By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP Theatre

2f 1m

A play that questions how everyone can be safe at the same time. A time-travelling set of interweaving stories exploring injustice, freedom and bravery.