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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Deposit

By Matt Hartley

2f 2m

A bittersweet and vital play that throws a spotlight on 'Generation Rent' and the lengths they will go to in order to get that first step on the property ladder.

The Desert Air

By Nicholas Wright

2f 16m, doubling

A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency

By Nathan Bryon

2-3f 1m doubling (large cast possible)

A madcap adventure story for young people (and older detectives) to watch, read and perform.

Diary of a Nobody (stage version)

By George & Weedon Grossmith Adapted by Hugh Osborne

3m, doubling, plus a piano

A sparkling adaptation of the classic comic novel recording the daily exploits of Charles Pooter, the London clerk with social aspirations far beyond his status.

dirty butterfly

By debbie tucker green

2f 1m

A mesmerising and startling play about voyeurism, power and guilt.

Disco Pigs

By Enda Walsh

1f 1m

Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

Disconnect

By Anupama Chandrasekhar

2f 3m

An urgent exposé of the realities behind the international call centre.

The Distance

By Deborah Bruce

3f 4m

A painfully funny play about motherhood (and fatherhood), about keeping control, and about letting go.

Distant Early Warning

By Tatty Hennessy

2f (age 10, twenties) 1m (age fifties)

A short play set in 2053 in what was once Greenland.

Published in volume A Hundred Words for Snow

Distracted

By Morna Pearson

2f 2m

A darkly surreal and richly comic short play about a deeply unusual mother and son relationship.

Dixon and Daughters

By Deborah Bruce

A powerful play about family and forgiveness, following a woman after her release from prison. Premiered at the National Theatre.

Dizzy

By Mohamed-Zain Dada

1f 2m (plus two voices that can be pre-recorded)

A fantastical, theatrical adventure through the underground world of street art and the hidden patterns in our universe. Premiered on UK tour by Theatre Centre and Sheffield Theatres in 2024.