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.
The Skriker
An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
By Tony KushnerThe second part of Tony Kushner's acclaimed epic drama set during the Reagan years in America.
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£10.99£8.79
Dora: A Case of Hysteria
A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Mill on the Floss (stage version)
By George Eliot Adapted by Helen EdmundsonA re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.
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£12.99£10.39
The Clearing
A powerful play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99The Lament for Arthur Cleary
Bestselling novelist Dermot Bolger transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin.
Published in volume The Crack in the EmeraldLow in the Dark
By Marina CarrA witty and absurdist play that dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.
Published in volume The Crack in the EmeraldMisogynist
A powerful anatomy of misogyny, by 'one of the most significant new Irish writers of his generation' (Sunday Times).
Published in volume The Crack in the EmeraldThe Hamster Wheel
By Marie JonesWhen one partner in a marriage becomes unable to look after themselves and is completely dependent on the other, what happens to the relationship between them?
Published in volume The Crack in the EmeraldPentecost
By David EdgarA valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. Part of David Edgar's trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Your Turn to Clean the Stair
By Rona MunroA comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & FugueThe Maiden Stone
By Rona MunroA wild and fantastical tale about a group of women struggling to get by in the harsh world of north-east Scotland in the early nineteenth century.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99
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