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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Bad Girls (stage version)

An energetic, fast-moving adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic, by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

Midnight (stage version)

An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

The Gist of It

A fast and furious drama of misunderstandings, about three people who desperately want to be loved.

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The Lottie Project (stage version)

An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

The Winterling

A comedy thriller from the author of the Olivier Award-winning Jerusalem.

Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (National Theatre of Scotland version)

A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

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Immaculate

A laugh-out-loud comic variation on the virgin birth.

The Schuman Plan

The story of post-war Britain and its love-hate relationship with Europe, recounted as a thrilling, fast-moving epic of machiavellian politics and private heartbreak.

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Rabbit

A fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st century.

Gorgeous Avatar

A wry, tender and fantastical story of love and loneliness in the digital age.

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Red

A viscerally poetic debut play commissioned by LLT, Liverpool's New Writing Theatre.

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Jordan

A short play that tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy, Jordan, rather than have him taken away by his abusive father.

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