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.
The Libertine
An incisive critique of life in an age of excess, based on the true story of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. This edition of the play was published alongside the 2016 production at the Theatre Royal Bath and Theatre Royal Haymarket.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Boys Will Be Boys
An exhilarating play about a ruthless female City trader who takes on a young and ambitious protegee.
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£11.99£9.59There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£11.99£9.59Fury
A chilling and powerful modern Medea about motherhood and class.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Orca
By Matt GrinterAn incisive, unflinching insight into what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable. Winner of the 2016 Papatango New Writing Prize.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59How to Date a Feminist
A hilarious new spin on the Hollywood romcom featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Broken Biscuits
By Tom WellsA beautiful, heart-warming, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story for our times.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59New Labour
A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Picnic at Hanging Rock (stage version)
By Joan Lindsay Adapted by Tom WrightA chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic novel about the disappearance of three Australian schoolgirls in the summer of 1900.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Low Level Panic
A funny, unapologetic play about the effects of society's objectification of women.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59All the Little Lights
By Jane UptonA poignant, moving and darkly funny play about young girls slipping through the cracks in society. Joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Girl in the Machine
By Stef SmithA disturbing but compassionate vision of our potential digital future, and what it might mean for 'life' as we know it.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Mosquitoes
A play about families and particle physics, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2017.
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