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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St Petersburg

By Declan Feenan

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

Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays

Stones in His Pockets

By Marie Jones

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

Published in volume Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays

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

By Gary Mitchell

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.

Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own

The Cavalcaders

By Billy Roche

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

By Owen McCafferty

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

Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

Time Spent on Trains

By Elizabeth Kuti

A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.

Published in volume Fishskin Trousers

trade

By debbie tucker green

A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays

Used Blood Junkyard

By Alberto Villarreal Translated by Simon Scardifield

Làzaro, his mates and his porn-star girlfriend are 'art terrorists'... Can anything stop their killing spree?

Published in volume Mexican Plays

What Love Is

By Linda McLean

A short play about caring for your parents.

Published in volume Sex & God

Isolated But Open

Voices from Across The Shutdown

By various

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.