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.
Time Spent on Trains
A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.
trade
A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.
Used Blood Junkyard
Làzaro, his mates and his porn-star girlfriend are 'art terrorists'... Can anything stop their killing spree?
What Love Is
A short play about caring for your parents.
Isolated But Open
Voices from Across The Shutdown
Twelve new monologues written in response to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 as part of Papatango's scheme to inspire creativity and share brilliant new stories.
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Burgerz
A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.
40 Days
A play exploring the impact of state violence on Black and brown children.
Medicine
A dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.
The Same
A play about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.
Some Of Us Exist In The Future
An utterly original, wryly funny play about one woman's search for a place to belong in a world that's not all it seems. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Ghost Stories from an Old Country
A riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us, threaded through with captivating fables. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
The Silence and the Noise
A play that beautifully captures the story of two young people on the edge. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
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