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.
Dead Dad Dog
An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.
The Steamie
A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.
Jordan
A short play that tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy, Jordan, rather than have him taken away by his abusive father.
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.
Unsuspecting Susan
A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.
Mongoose
A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.
Cold Comfort
A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.
Brazil
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.
My Friend Duplicity
A one-act duologue by Enda Walsh which went on to inspire his play Ballyturk.
Room 303
A short monologue inspired by the Third Epistle of John and first produced by the Bush Theatre, London, as part of the Sixty-Six Books season in 2011.
Poor Beast in the Rain
A slice of small-town life, set in a betting shop in Wexford. Part of Billy Roche's acclaimed Wexford Trilogy.
Belfry
A deeply moving tale about what lies beneath the surface of everyday lives.
