Plays to perform

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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Blackthorn

Blackthorn

By Charley Miles

A contemporary, lyrical love story that explores the changes and choices that pull us from the places and people we love.

Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives

Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives

Eight Monologues

Created by Vicky Featherstone By various

A collection of monologues that document, remember and bear witness to a century of struggle for progress and equality for women in the United Kingdom.

The Funeral Director

The Funeral Director

By Iman Qureshi

An incisive and heartfelt play about sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. Winner of the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Queen Margaret

Queen Margaret

By William Shakespeare Adapted by Jeanie O'Hare

Using Shakespeare’s orginal lines, alongside new text, Jeanie O’Hare retells The Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the extraordinary Margaret of Anjou.

You Stupid Darkness!

You Stupid Darkness!

By Sam Steiner

An urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart.

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (stage version)

By John Nicholson and Le Navet Bete

A riotously comic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, originally performed by physical-comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete.

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Daughterhood

Daughterhood

By Charley Miles

A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them.

LIT

LIT

By Sophie Ellerby

A play exploring the turbulent teenage years of a Nottingham girl looking for love in all the wrong places.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (stage version)

By Louis de Bernières Adapted by Rona Munro

Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernières' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.

There Are No Beginnings

There Are No Beginnings

By Charley Miles

A play about the women whose lives and livelihoods were affected by the murderous attacks of the Yorkshire Ripper.

God's Dice

God's Dice

By David Baddiel

Science and religion go head to head in this electric tragicomedy: a ferociously funny battle for power, fame and followers.

The Incident Room

The Incident Room

By Olivia Hirst and David Byrne

A play about the manhunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, going behind the scenes to investigate the case that nearly broke the British police force.

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Matt Grinter

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20–27 April 2024
Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
Blake Morrison
Mike Bartlett

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26–27 April 2024
Dubai Drama Group
Amanda Whittington

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13–18 May 2024
Wharf Theatre, Devizes