NHB Modern Plays

Part One of the two-part Angels in America, an epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.

JP Miller's 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, adapted brilliantly for the stage by Owen McCafferty.

An inventive, fast-paced comedy based featuring P.G. Wodehouse’s iconic double act.

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

A deliciously funny and bittersweet comedy that captures the fragility of friendship, happiness and life itself. Winner of the Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Comedy.

A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy.

An adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy novels for award-winning theatre company Complicite.

A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

Wry, emotive, funny and heartfelt, buckets is a play with a unique perspective on a universal dilemma: how do you deal with the fact that time always runs out?

A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited.

An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you.

An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights.