NHB Modern Plays

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators, vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.

The true-life drama of the extraordinary bond between two identical twin girls and their struggle to find a voice.

A shattering and heartbreaking play, joint winner of the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.

A darkly comic stage adaptation of The Trial, relocating Kafka's classic novel to twenty-first-century London.

An irreverent and unsettling play that interrogates paranoia, ambiguity and innocence in our highly sexualised world.

Helen Edmundson's celebrated adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's enduring classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love.

A funny, moving and topical portrayal of the world in flux, Invisible explores the many sides of migration.

The Pulitzer-winning musical inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, celebrating the art of creation and the creation of art.

The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.

A re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.

A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.