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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Airsick

By Emma Frost

2f 3m

A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.

Albert Speer

By David Edgar

Large mixed cast (6f 20m or more)

A panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.

Albertine in Five Times

By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco

A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.

Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays

Albion

By Mike Bartlett

6f 5m

Mike Bartlett's outstanding play, set in the ruins of a garden in rural England.

Alcatraz

By Nathan Lucky Wood

3f 2m

A thrilling play about family and social care that follows 11-year-old Sandy on her daring, Christmas mission to emulate Clint Eastwood and bust her gran out of lock-up.

All honey

By Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

3f 2m

A play about sex, secrets and suspicion, winner of the 2017 Fishamble New Writing Award.

Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays

All Mouth

By Jonathan Lewis and Miranda Foster

1f 4m

A biting comedy set in the hidden world of the voice-over artist.

All of Us

By Francesca Martinez

6-10f 7-9m plus optional extras

A passionate and timely drama that looks at the human cost of abandoning those who struggle to fit in.

All On Her Own

By Terence Rattigan

A powerfully atmospheric one-woman play, All On Her Own tells the story of Rosemary who, alone at midnight in London, has a secret burden to share that is both heartbreaking and sinister.

Published in volume Harlequinade & All On Her Own

All Our Children

By Stephen Unwin

2f 3m

A moving examination of a terrifying moral dilemma, and a powerful story that shows what it takes for humanity and decency to be restored in a world that has abandoned them.

All the Little Lights

By Jane Upton

A poignant, moving and darkly funny play about young girls slipping through the cracks in society. Joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.

All the Way Home

By Ayub Khan Din

5f 3m

A deeply emotional comedy drama from the author of East is East, exploring the relationships we have with our roots, and with those that we love but don't always understand.