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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Disco Pigs

Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

    Sucking Dublin

    A fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.

    Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

      A Girl's Bedroom

      A short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.

      Published in volume Arlington

        A Mouthful of Birds

        A collaborative piece written with David Lan, combining words and dance. Inspired by Euripides' Bacchae, the play explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves'.

        Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

          A Night in November

          The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

            About a Goth

            A short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.

            Published in volume Me, As A Penguin

              All On Her Own

              A powerfully atmospheric one-woman play, All On Her Own tells the story of Rosemary who, alone at midnight in London, has a secret burden to share that is both heartbreaking and sinister.

              Published in volume Harlequinade & All On Her Own

                Almost Nothing

                By Marcos Barbosa Translated by Mark O'Thomas

                An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.

                Published in volume Almost Nothing & At the Table

                  Aloe Aloe

                  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

                    Amongst the Reeds

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

                      Amphibians

                      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

                        At the Table

                        By Marcos Barbosa Translated by Mark O'Thomas

                        An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.

                        Published in volume Almost Nothing & At the Table

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                          20–27 April 2024
                          Theatre Workshop Coulsdon

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                          26–27 April 2024
                          Dubai Drama Group

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                          13–18 May 2024
                          Wharf Theatre, Devizes