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.
Where I'm From
A monologue play about a woman on the day of her release from prison.
The Naked Eye
A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.
Leavings
A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
A forensic insight into the adjustment of morality for the sake of conscience.
Hot Fudge
The competitive games of various professionals and their spouses present an amoral world where money is all and lies are the only truth.
The Judge's Wife
A short play about justice and retribution, first seen as a BBC television drama.
Lovesick
A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives.
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
A short play set in a dystopian future, where a couple in a tower block hide from the violence and pollution outside.
Schreber's Nervous Illness
A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.
Seagulls
A woman with an extraordinary gift begins to fear her powers are waning.
The Lament for Arthur Cleary
Bestselling novelist Dermot Bolger transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin.
Low in the Dark
A witty and absurdist play that dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.
