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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Almost Nothing & At the Table

Two plays

By Marcos Barbosa Translated by Mark O'Thomas

Two tense and unnerving short plays from talented Brazilian playwright, Marcos Barbosa.

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Aloe Aloe

By Camilla Whitehill

A provocative short play about parenthood and responsibility, from the author of Mr Incredible and Where Do Little Birds Go?.

Published in volume Mr Incredible

Alys, Always (stage version)

By Harriet Lane Adapted by Lucinda Coxon

A psychological thriller, adapted for the stage from Harriet Lane's gripping novel.

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Among Unbroken Hearts

By Henry Adam

A drug-taking hard man from the city returns home to the Highlands to try to recapture the innocence of his youth.

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Amongst the Reeds

By Chinonyerem Odimba

Two friends scratch out a living on the margins of society in a play commissioned by acclaimed theatre company Clean Break.

Published in volume House + Amongst the Reeds: two plays

Amphibians

By Billy Roche

A rite-of-passage play in which a twelve-year-old boy spends the night alone on an island.

Published in volume The Cavalcaders and Amphibians

Amsterdam

By Maya Arad Yasur Translated by Eran Edry

A strikingly original, audacious thriller from a prize-winning Israeli writer.

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The Anarchist

By Karina Wiedman

A gripping, timely, and deeply moving play about protest, democracy and freedom. Winner of the Woven Voices Prize for migrant playwrights, 2022.

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And Then Come The Nightjars

By Bea Roberts

A tender, frank and funny play about a West Country farm struggling to survive the Foot and Mouth pandemic.

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Angel

By Henry Naylor

Inspired by the extraordinary true story of the Angel of Kobane, Angel is part of Henry Naylor's Arabian Nightmares trilogy.

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Angels

By Ronan O'Donnell

A suspicious death at the workplace and loner security guard Nick Prentice is hauled in for interrogation. An uproarious underworld whodunit, Ronan O’Donnell’s single-hander reworks the hardboiled crime thriller for our times.

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Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

By Tony Kushner

Part One of the two-part Angels in America, an epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.