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.
A Handful of Stars
A gripping but warm-spirited snapshot of life in a small southern Irish town.
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2f 1m/fA shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision.
Hanna
By Sam Potter1fA funny, heartfelt and compelling new play that asks what family means in a modern society, delicately weaving in questions of racial identity, economic privilege, and the lottery of birth.
Hansel and Gretel (stage version)
3f 6m, doublingAn imaginative reworking of the children's classic, from the UK's leading author of plays for young audiences.
Happy Meal
By Tabby Lamb2 performers (1 Trans masc, 1 Trans femme)A joyful trans rom-com for the stage, following two initial strangers on their journeys from teen to adult; from MySpace to TikTok; from cis to trans...
Happy Now?
3f 4mA painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it.
A Hard Rain
By Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper1f 5mA play about what happens when you push things underground, set in New York 1969 in the sweltering few days before the eruption of the Stonewall riots.
Harm
1f (playing thirty-nine years old)A thrilling and razor-sharp twisted comedy on the corrosive effects of social media and isolation.
The Haunting
By Hugh Janes and Charles Dickens1f 2mA spine-chilling play based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens.
The Haystack
By Al Blyth4-5f 2-4mAn explosive espionage thriller that challenges the idea that 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear', exploring how we can live freely when advances in technology outpace the law.
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Amateur Productions
On Now & Coming SoonBill Bryson, Adapted by Tim WhitnallFin KennedyAmanda WhittingtonAlexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate SummerscaleAmanda WhittingtonHenrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard EyreTom WellsJeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey