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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Whipping It Up

A quick-witted satirical farce set in the Whips' office at Westminster.

A Christmas Carol (Derby Playhouse stage version)

An acclaimed dramatisation of Dickens' well-loved Christmas story - more faithful to the original than any other published version.

Thérèse Raquin (Theatre Royal Bath stage version)

A story of lust, madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zola's classic novel.

Holes

An absurd, hilarious and fast-paced comedy by the writer of some of Britain's most acclaimed TV comedies.

Jonah and Otto

A humane, funny and ultimately haunting play that explores masculinity, identity and what it means to be English.

Elephants

A sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most.

A Breakfast of Eels

An intense, elusive, and quietly beautiful play about a family crisis.

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The Crocodile

By Tom Basden Original author Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within... a crocodile.

Crushed Shells and Mud

A play about conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties in a world trembling in the grip of a devastating epidemic.

German Skerries

An uplifting portrait of human hope and vulnerability, weaving resonant drama out of a friendship, a marriage, a holiday, and a death.

Human Animals

In the overcrowded city, nature is getting out of control. Stef Smith's play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016.

The Encounter

A solo show tracing one man's journey into the Amazon rainforest and to the limits of human consciousness, inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu.

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Theatre Workshop Coulsdon

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Dubai Drama Group

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