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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Daughters of the Revolution

By David Edgar

A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays

Mothers Against

By David Edgar

A gripping account of a bitterly fought US governor's election from the Republican perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays

Mongoose

By Peter Harness

A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.

Published in volume Singular Male Voices

Cold Comfort

By Owen McCafferty

A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

Published in volume Singular Male Voices

Brazil

By Ronan O'Donnell

A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.

Published in volume Singular Male Voices

Flush

By David Dipper

A brash and sexy short play about death, deceit and poker.

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Ladybird

By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha Dugdale

A tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine.

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Animal Farm (stage version)

By George Orwell Adapted by Ian Wooldridge

A powerful and straightforward dramatisation of Orwell's enduring parable on the perils of totalitarianism.

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