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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The Steamie

By Tony Roper

A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.

Published in volume Scot-Free

Mad Forest

By Caryl Churchill

A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events.

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The Shape of the Table

By David Edgar

An urgent political play about the collapse of an Eastern Bloc government at the end of 1989. Part of David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy of plays.

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The Guid Sisters

By Michel Tremblay Translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman

Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays

Manon / Sandra

By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek

A controversial but humane play about an obsessively religious girl and a sex-obsessed transvestite, by the renowned Quebecois writer.

Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays

Albertine in Five Times

By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco

A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.

Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays

Sweeney Todd

By Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler

The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.

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Light in the Village

By John Clifford

A devastatingly effective modern parable about poverty and corruption in an Indian village.

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Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

By Tony Kushner

Part One of the two-part Angels in America, an epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.