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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The Gatekeeper

By Chloë Moss

3f 2m

A darkly comic play about the disintegration of a family get-together.

The Gathered Leaves

By Andrew Keatley

5f 6m

A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997.

generations

By debbie tucker green

4f 3m

A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays

Genesis Inc.

By Jemma Kennedy

5f 4m, doubling (12f 9m 8f/m), plus voice-overs

An explosively funny comedy that takes a closer look at the lengths to which people will go to defy biology – and at the moral compass of an industry that trades on fear and hope.

Germ Free Adolescent

By Natalie Mitchell

1f 1m (playing age sixteen)

A fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway?

German Skerries

By Robert Holman

1f 3m

An uplifting portrait of human hope and vulnerability, weaving resonant drama out of a friendship, a marriage, a holiday, and a death.

Ghost Stories from an Old Country

By Tajinder Singh Hayer

1f 3m

A riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us, threaded through with captivating fables. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Published in volume Papatango Plays

The Giant

By Antony Sher

12m

A powerful, witty and moving play exploring the dark interplay between sexuality and creativity.

Giant

By Mark Rosenblatt

3f 3m plus 1m voice only

A stage play exploring the life and legacy of that fiendishly charismatic icon, Roald Dahl. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2024 and transferring to the West End in 2025. Winner of Best New Play at both the Olivier and Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.

The Gift

By Janice Okoh

4-6f 2-4m

An outrageous play about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea.

Gigi & Dar

By Josh Azouz

3f 1m

A comic tragedy about what we bury in order to survive. Premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024.

Gilt

By Stephen Greenhorn, Rona Munro and Isabel Wright

3f 4m

An exciting innovation: three of Scotland's top playwrights combine forces on a single play - staged by 7:84 Scotland in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.