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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Burgerz

By Travis Alabanza

1m/f

A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.

Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

Burkas and Bacon Butties

By Shamia Chalabi and Sarah Henley

3f 3m

A heart-warming, clash-of-cultures comedy set in a Wigan taxi.

Burning Bridges

By Amy Shindler

4f 1m

A love triangle with a dangerous twist, this moving and funny play explores the everyday dilemmas of a young woman living with autism.

Burnt by the Sun

By Peter Flannery

6f 10m plus 2 girls plus extras

A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov.

Burnt Out

By Gary Mitchell

3f 2m

A blackly comic psychological thriller for the stage, revealing the darker side of suburban life in Belfast.

Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

By Jack Thorne

2-6f 3-22m

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival, and premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

Cancelling Socrates

By Howard Brenton

2f 2m with specified doubling

A provocative and witty play about an uncompromising voice in dangerous times.

Cans

By Stuart Slade

1f 1m

A searingly funny debut play about death, betrayal, and the possibility of forgiveness. And cider.

The Canterbury Tales (stage version)

By Geoffrey Chaucer Adapted by Mike Poulton

5f 14m doubling (large cast possible)

A landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (stage version)

By Louis de Bernières Adapted by Rona Munro

5f 9m plus 1f/m doubling (possible cast of 30+)

Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernières' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.

Caresses

By Sergi Belbel Translated by John London

5f 6m

An acclaimed Catalan drama that presesnt a disturbing picture of contemporary Western society set against a background of urban alienation and violence.