NHB Modern Plays

A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America.

A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.

A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

A panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.

A magnificent two-play epic, adapted from Tolstoy's novel and first staged by Shared Experience.

A gripping play exploring Western guilt towards the Third World, from an author well-known for her award-winning adaptations for Shared Experience and the National Theatre.

An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them.

A dramatisation of the extraordinary life of Jean Rhys, in which themes of femininity, literature and hysteria and madness collide with vivid force.

A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin. 

The Ancient myths of the Kingdom of Thebes re-told by Scotland's foremost poet/dramatist.

An exciting innovation: three of Scotland's top playwrights combine forces on a single play - staged by 7:84 Scotland in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.