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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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Brazil

Brazil

By Ronan O'Donnell

A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.

Published in volume Singular Male Voices
    A Breakfast of Eels

    A Breakfast of Eels

    By Robert Holman

    An intense, elusive, and quietly beautiful play about a family crisis.

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    Breed

    Breed

    By Lou Ramsden

    A sharp and savage play about the animals we are and the people we try to be.

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    Bright. Young. Things.

    Bright. Young. Things.

    By Georgia Christou

    A funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are. Part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books, aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre.

    Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)

    Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)

    By Hilary Mantel Adapted by Mike Poulton

    The second part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.

    Published in volume Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)
      Britannia Waves the Rules

      Britannia Waves the Rules

      By Gareth Farr

      An arresting and angry look at conflict and its effect on soldiers returning home.

      Broken Biscuits

      Broken Biscuits

      By Tom Wells

      A beautiful, heart-warming, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story for our times.

      Brontë

      Brontë

      By Polly Teale

      A compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Brontë sisters - dramatised by Polly Teale and Shared Experience, the team behind After Mrs Rochester and Jane Eyre.

      Brothers of Thunder

      Brothers of Thunder

      By Ann Marie Di Mambro

      A play about forgiveness, reconciliation and the role of the church in the modern world.

      The Browning Version

      The Browning Version

      By Terence Rattigan

      Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage.

      Brute

      Brute

      By Izzy Tennyson

      A solo show about a rather twisted schoolgirl.

      BU21

      BU21

      By Stuart Slade

      Six young people are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the heart of London. By turns terrifying, inspiring, brutal, heartbreaking and hilarious, BU21 is verbatim theatre from the very near future.

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      13–18 May 2024
      Wharf Theatre, Devizes
      Margaret Perry