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.
Raging: Wild Sky
The Rising
A play exploring the extraordinary energy and complexity of events in Ireland in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.
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£6.99£5.59
Raging: Embargo
The War of Independence
A poetic, bloody and heroic tale of industrial action and civic resistance, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.
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£6.99£5.59
Wonder Boy
A play about the power of finding your own voice, revolving around a twelve-year-old boy with a stammer. Winner of the Best Play Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Bone Sparrow (stage version)
By Zana Fraillon Adapted by S. ShakthidharanA stage adaptation of Zana Fraillon's powerful and deeply moving novel about the displacement and treatment of refugees and sanctuary seekers in Australia.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Sorry, You're Not a Winner
A powerful and striking play that explores aspiration, social mobility and getting caught between classes.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Our Generation
An engrossing verbatim created from five years of interviews with twelve young people from across the UK. A captivating portrait of their teenage years as they journey into adulthood.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Bacon
An unflinching and unexpectedly humorous play about masculinity, sexuality and power, through the dizzying lens of youth.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Small Island (stage version)
By Andrea Levy Adapted by Helen EdmundsonAndrea Levy's epic novel tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Far Gone
A profoundly moving play about a young Ugandan boy's journey from childhood innocence to child soldier, seen through the eyes of those that love him and those that betray him.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Two Billion Beats
An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79SAUCE
A play about death and rebirth, from an award-winning Irish playwright.
Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two PlaysAll honey
A play about sex, secrets and suspicion, winner of the 2017 Fishamble New Writing Award.
Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays
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