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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Enough

By Stef Smith

A poetic, unpredictable and explosive play about female friendship, and what happens when you can no longer be the woman people want.

Enter A Gentleman

By Elizabeth Kuti

2f 2m

A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.

Published in volume Fishskin Trousers

Epic Love and Pop Songs

By Phoebe Eclair-Powell

1f 1m

A smart, funny play about love, friendship and growing up, from the author of WINK and Fury.

Es & Flo

By Jennifer Lunn

A sharply observed, deeply compassionate play celebrating an older lesbian relationship, women coming together to fight for what's right, and the healing power of chosen family.

Estate Walls

By Arinzé Kene

1f 4m

A play about a young writer who dreams of leaving his estate. The play that won Arinzé Kene the Most Promising Playwright at the 2011 Offies (Off West End Theatre Awards).

Eternal Love

The Story of Abelard and Heloise

By Howard Brenton

6f 11m, doubling

A spellbinding retelling of the passionate and legendary love story of Abelard and Heloise.

Every One

By Jo Clifford

3f 3m (plus ideally 1 girl and additional dancers)

A re-imagining of Everyman, Jo Clifford's bold and haunting play tells a deeply emotional and warmly funny story of a voyage into the heart of living - and of what it means to lose the people we love.

Everything Not Saved

By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP Theatre

2-3f 1m

A play about memory, happiness, Rasputin, and dancing. And also the Queen. Premiered by MALAPROP Theatre at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017.

The Evil Doers

By Chris Hannan

5f 2m

A chaotic, violent, comic odyssey through the dismal streets of 1980s Glasgow.

Eyam

By Matt Hartley

7f 8m, doubling (8f 13m)

A play about an outbreak of the plague in a small Derbyshire village in 1665.

F*ck the Polar Bears

By Tanya Ronder

2f 2m plus a young girl

A raucous family drama about the cost of living the life of our dreams.

failure project

By Yolanda Mercy

1f playing multiple characters (plus some characters in voiceover)

A warm and witty one-person play exploring grief, the strings attached to success, and what it means to 'fail'. Premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024.