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.
Being Friends
The first of the three plays that make up Robert Holman's acclaimed dramatic trilogy Making Noise Quietly.
Catherine Medbh
A bittersweet and hesitant duologue in a bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers.
Daughters of the Revolution
A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.
Duologue
Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.
Enter A Gentleman
A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.
Fair
A powerful drama about the potent appeal of far right policies to young people in the UK.
Felt Effects
A play that unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.
Fugue
A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.
generations
A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...
Harlequinade
A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.
House
A play about family, culture clash, memory and truth, commissioned by acclaimed theatre company Clean Break.
I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me
An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.
