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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Appropriate

A gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with.

Oslo

A darkly funny political thriller, winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play.

15 Heroines

15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid

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Drawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.

First Time

A hilarious and heartbreaking true story that smashes through the stigma and shame of HIV, to present an uplifting and inspirational guide to staying positive in a negative world.

David Copperfield (stage version)

One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

Dracula (stage version)

Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel.

Blood and Ice

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.

Salt

A modern morality tale about the corrosive effect of money, joint winner of the 2008 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.

Speaking in Tongues

A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana.

The Last Witch

A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart.

Disconnect

An urgent exposé of the realities behind the international call centre.

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What We Know

A funny, painful and deeply moving play about loss - and cooking.

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20–27 April 2024
Theatre Workshop Coulsdon

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Dubai Drama Group

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