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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Churchill in Moscow

By Howard Brenton

3f 4m

A gripping stage play dramatising the historic meeting of two unpredictable titans, Churchill and Stalin, in Moscow in 1942, as history teeters on a knife-edge. Premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2025.

Cinderella (stage version)

By Stuart Paterson

4f 4m, doubling

A classic fairy tale with a twist, from the UK's leading author of plays for young audiences.

Cinzano & Smirnova's Birthday

By Ludmila Petrushevskaya Translated by Stephen Mulrine

3m (Cinzano); 3f 1m (Birthday)

Two linked plays from the Russian playwright dubbed the 'female Chekhov', depicting the grim reality of domestic life in Soviet Russia.

Ciphers

By Dawn King

2-4f 2-4m

A smart and provocative thriller about spies, double agents, and the opaqueness of the human soul.

Citysong

By Carys D. Coburn

4f 3m playing multiple characters (large cast possible, 100+ roles)

The Verity Bargate Award-winning play about three generations of a Dublin family.

CLASS

By Iseult Golden and David Horan

1f 2m, doubling (2f 3m)

Funny, heartbreaking and beautifully observed, CLASS is an award-winning play about learning difficulties: in school, in life, wherever.

The Clearing

By Helen Edmundson

3f 5m

A powerful play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland.

The Climbers

By Carmen Nasr

4f 2m

A thrilling play about the lure of the mountains, the drive to conquer and the price of staying alive.

Cling To Me Like Ivy

By Samantha Ellis

3f 3m

A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.

The Clink

By Stephen Jeffreys

4f 5m doubling, or 4f 12m

A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.