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 Guid Sisters

By Michel Tremblay Translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman

15f

Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays

Guidesky and I

By Deborah Bruce

1f 2m

A funny and poignant drama about loneliness and the opportunity for connection, first performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.

Published in volume Inside/Outside

Gunter

By Lydia Higman, Julia Grogan and Rachel Lemon

4+ performers

The hit play about deception, witchcraft and football, winner of a Fringe First at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, then at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

Gut

By Frances Poet

2f 2m (can be performed by a larger cast)

A taut psychological thriller that explores who we can trust with our children – and whether it’s more dangerous not to trust at all.

Gypsy Girl

By Laura Lomas

A monologue first performed by Laura Lomas at Soho Theatre, London, on 5 October 2009 as part of Paines Plough's LATER programme.

Published in volume Bird and other monologues for young women

Habibti Driver

By Shamia Chalabi and Sarah Henley

3f 3m

A heartwarming and hilarious play exploring the clashes, compromises and comedy that come with living in a mixed-culture family in today's Britain.

Halcyon Days

By Deirdre Kinahan

1f 1m

An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit.

The Half Of It

By Karen Cogan

1f, plus 1f voice-over

A darkly lyrical monologue about a life, lived unseen. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award in 2018.

Hamish

By Jack Thorne

A short monologue play exploring the challenges facing a young wheelchair user, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues

The Hamster Wheel

By Marie Jones

3f 2m

When one partner in a marriage becomes unable to look after themselves and is completely dependent on the other, what happens to the relationship between them?

Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald