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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Flights

By John O'Donovan

3m (thirties)

A haunting and funny play about bereavement, brotherhood and breaking away from your past.

Flush

By David Dipper

2f 3m

A brash and sexy short play about death, deceit and poker.

Foam

By Harry McDonald

6-7m

A gripping play that examines the nature of identity and the consequences of right-wing extremist ideology against the backdrop of London's skinhead and gay scenes of the 1970s and 1980s.

Folk

By Tom Wells

2f 1m

Surprising and poignant, Folk is a hilarious and not-so-holy story of hope, coming together and finding your feet when your world is turned upside down.

Food

By Joel Horwood and Christopher Heimann

2f 3m, doubling

A play about celebrity chefs and the price you have to pay for ambition, from the Imaginary Body, the team behind the smash hit 100.

For All I Care

By Alan Harris

1-2f

A fast-moving, touchingly funny play about two very different women, both having a very bad day.

For The Grace Of You Go I

By Alan Harris

1f 2m

A darkly funny, quick-witted, fast-moving comedy about a man whose life is going nowhere.

The Force of Change

By Gary Mitchell

1f 5m

An explosively topical play about institutional corruption in Northern Ireland.

Forever House

By Glenn Waldron

3f 3m

A darkly comic drama of buried secrets and new beginnings, with three linked scenes all set in the same terraced house.

Forty Winks

By Kevin Elyot

1f 4m plus 1 girl aged 14

A heart-wrenching drama of anguish and missed opportunities.

Four Nights in Knaresborough

By Paul Webb

1f 5m plus 1 boy (optional)

A fast and bloody black comedy that sheds light on four of the most ignored figures in English history – the knights who actually had to kill Thomas Becket.