NHB Modern Plays

A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

A poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.

A short play about faith, families, and fitting in.

A futuristic comedy about conception, state control and rebellion.

A short play by Georgia Christou that looks at duty, love and dependency across three generations of women.

A fiercely funny short play by Rose Lewenstein, investigating what feminism means, and what it has become.

Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.

A heartbreaking short play about guilt, grief and responsibility, written for and performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2011.

A short dark comedy from Spain, in which a naive middle-aged transvestite encounters a petty thief nicknamed 'sour face'.

A short play exploring the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.

A poetic and heart-rending play written in response to the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.