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.
Closing Time
McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.
Clybourne Park
By Bruce Norris3f 5mAn acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property.
Cockroach
By Sam Holcroft4f 2mA dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.
Cold Comfort
1mA 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.
Published in volume Singular Male VoicesCold War (stage version)
Adapted by Conor McPherson Original author Paweł Pawlikowski6f 5m plus extrasAn epic love story spanning the decades and breadth of Europe at its most divided, adapted from the Academy Award-nominated film. Premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2023.
Collapsible
1f 1mA funny, furious monologue about holding on in this collapsing world.
The Collector
By Henry Naylor1f 2mA compelling tale of murder, evil and betrayal set in occupied Iraq, part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.
Come On Over
1f 1mA Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before.
Come Out Eli
Flexible casting (over 40 characters, can be performed by small cast)A verbatim play telling the story of the 2002 Hackney siege, as told by the diverse and vibrant community that experienced it.
The Comeback
By Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen2m plus 2-4 extrasA heartwarming, joyful and dazzlingly funny exploration of bittersweet nostalgia and the enduring power of friendship.
Coming Clean
By Kevin Elyot5mFunny, fresh and packed with razor-sharp wit, Kevin Elyot’s landmark drama questions the nature of fidelity and the limits of love.
Comment is Free
By James Fritz3f 2mA journalist forms the centre of a devastating media storm in James Fritz's urgent, gripping and innovative play.
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Amateur Productions
On Now & Coming SoonBill Bryson, Adapted by Tim WhitnallFin KennedyAmanda WhittingtonAlexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate SummerscaleAmanda WhittingtonHenrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard EyreTom WellsJeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey