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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On the Beach

Part of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

Published in volume The Contingency Plan

    One Thousand and One

    A short play from the author of Mr Incredible and Where Do Little Birds Go?.

    Published in volume Mr Incredible

      Resilience

      Part of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

      Published in volume The Contingency Plan

        Seven-Eleven

        Cabron (the Bastard) isn't having a good day. His scams aren't going well. Thank god for the Seven-Eleven and its constant supply of hot-dogs.

        Published in volume Mexican Plays

          Spacewang

          A monologue play in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens.

          Published in volume The Kitchen Sink

            St Petersburg

            A haunting, elliptical play by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.

            Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays

              Stones in His Pockets

              Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.

                Tartuffe

                By Molière Adapted by Liz Lochhead

                A rollicking Scots version of Molière's classic of political satire and black comedy.

                Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

                  Tearing the Loom

                  A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.

                    The Cavalcaders

                    A rousing, comic play set in an old-fashioned cobbler's shop in small-town southern Ireland.

                    Published in volume The Cavalcaders and Amphibians

                      The Sánchez Huerta Girl Killed Herself

                      By Claudia Ríos Translated by Roxana Silbert

                      After a young girl's suicide, her parents meet for the first time in years at the school where she died.

                      Published in volume Mexican Plays

                        The Waiting List

                        A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

                        Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

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                          Matt Grinter

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                          20–27 April 2024
                          Theatre Workshop Coulsdon

                          Blake Morrison

                          Mike Bartlett

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                          26–27 April 2024
                          Dubai Drama Group

                          Amanda Whittington

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                          13–18 May 2024
                          Wharf Theatre, Devizes