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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Closing Time

1f 4m

McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.

Clybourne Park

3f 5m

An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property.

Cockroach

4f 2m

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.

Cold Comfort

1m

A 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 Voices

    Cold War (stage version)

    Adapted by Conor McPherson Original author Paweł Pawlikowski
    6f 5m plus extras

    An 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 1m

    A funny, furious monologue about holding on in this collapsing world.

    The Collector

    1f 2m

    A compelling tale of murder, evil and betrayal set in occupied Iraq, part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.

    Come On Over

    1f 1m

    A 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

    2m plus 2-4 extras

    A heartwarming, joyful and dazzlingly funny exploration of bittersweet nostalgia and the enduring power of friendship.

    Coming Clean

    5m

    Funny, 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

    3f 2m

    A journalist forms the centre of a devastating media storm in James Fritz's urgent, gripping and innovative play.

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    Bill Bryson, Adapted by Tim Whitnall

    Fin Kennedy

    Amanda Whittington

    Alexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate Summerscale

    Amanda Whittington


    Henrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard Eyre

    Tom Wells

    Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey