NHB Modern Plays

A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, dissecting the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.

A short play about three very different women at a gay nightclub in Orlando, who are caught up in a terrifying hate crime.

A short play by Timberlake Wertenbaker about an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan.

A short play that explores our changing attitudes towards the landscape.

Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.

A monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.

A vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.

A searing examination of the culture of body-shaming, exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media.

A short play about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line.

A short play exploring the private worlds of strangers, living side by side but generations apart.

A play in verse following four young people across one night in Dublin.

A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.