NHB Modern Plays

A darkly riotous, superbly fast-talking adventure, adapted from the Booker Prize-winning novel.

One of the greatest horror stories of all time, in a stage adaptation that sticks closely to Mary Shelley's original novel.

A magical and deeply compassionate play about identity and the capacities of the human spirit.

A darkly comic, spell-binding dystopian drama, winner of the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize.

A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.

The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself.

A brilliant and painfully truthful portrait of Stanley Spencer, the wayward genius of modern British painting.

A valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. Part of David Edgar's trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe.

A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage.

A gripping verbatim drama using only the actual words spoken in court during the 1946 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial.

An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough.