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.
Ladies Unleashed
A moving comedy for the stage, about friendship, growing older and living for today, reuniting the characters from the smash-hit plays Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)
Two plays
By Steve WatersA double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Ivy Tiller: Vicar's Daughter, Squirrel Killer
By Bea RobertsA blackly comic play that challenges our assumptions about who belongs and who thrives, and exposes the dark side of the rural idyll. Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79James IV: Queen of the Fight
By Rona MunroA thrilling historical drama set in an uncharted period of Scottish history, with two Moorish women arriving in the dangerous world of the court of James IV.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Jekyll and Hyde (stage version)
By Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by Neil BartlettAn inventive, brilliantly theatrical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's darkly fascinating tale of male violence, guilt and privilege.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Little Bits of Ruined Beauty
A darkly comic play examining the subtle shift from cared-for to carer and how dignity and independence are maintained in isolated rural areas.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The P Word
A sharp-witted and devastating play charting the parallel lives of two gay Pakistani men as they negotiate everything from casual hook-ups to the UK's hostile environment.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Snail House
By Richard EyreA play about a government medical advisor, knighted for his role during the pandemic, whose life begins to unravel at his own lavish birthday party.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Happy Meal
By Tabby LambA 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...
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Trials
By Dawn KingA searing play set in a near-future world, where those responsible for the climate emergency are being judged by a younger generation.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha
By Natal'ya Vorozhbit Translated by Sasha DugdaleA powerful play about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by one of Ukraine's leading playwrights.
Published in volume Voices from Ukraine: Two PlaysPussycat in Memory of Darkness
By Neda Nezhdana Translated by John FarndonA powerful play about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by one of Ukraine's leading playwrights.
Published in volume Voices from Ukraine: Two Plays
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