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 Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

By Catherine Johnson

The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

Published in volume Singular Female Voices

Unsuspecting Susan

By Stewart Permutt

A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.

Published in volume Singular Female Voices

Cruising

By Alecky Blythe

A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

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Food

By Joel Horwood and Christopher Heimann

A play about celebrity chefs and the price you have to pay for ambition, from the Imaginary Body, the team behind the smash hit 100.

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Petrol Jesus Nightmare #5 (In the Time of the Messiah)

By Henry Adam

A chilling apocalyptic thriller about the violent consequences of faith and belief, from the author of The People Next Door.

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Strawberries in January

By Evelyne de la Chenelière Translated by Rona Munro

A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montréal, in a version by Rona Munro.

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Ladies' Day

By Amanda Whittington

Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda. But their fortunes are set to change when Linda finds tickets to Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot the year it relocated to York.