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.
Old Bridge
An epic love story exploring the impact of a war that Europe forgot, and the love and loss of those who lived through it. Winner of the 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Dorian
A thrilling stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, following one man's descent from glorious debauchery to epic self-destruction.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Love and Other Acts of Violence
A subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Good Life
A witty reimagining of a television classic for the stage, with a wellyful of laughs that's sure to delight audiences everywhere.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Yellowfin
By Marek HornPolitics and the planet collide in a fiercely original play about the limits of science, the power of myths, and the things we can't control.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Long Song (stage version)
By Andrea Levy Adapted by Suhayla El-BushraThe story of a young slave girl who lives through the final turbulent days of slavery on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica. Adapted from Andrea Levy's award-winning novel.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Metamorphoses
An entertaining and provocative new play inspired by Ovid's powerful collection of myths.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Duck Duck Goose
A viscerally charged play, full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Sessions
A raw, funny, bittersweet play about the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Anything is Possible if You Think About It Hard Enough
A moving and unexpectedly funny play about a couple grieving the loss of their child, winner of the Best New Play award at the 2022 Offies (Off West End Awards).
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Ballad of Maria Marten
A thrilling play based on the nineteenth-century Red Barn Murder in Suffolk, rediscovering the lost story of the murder victim, Maria Marten.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Is God Is
A revenge tale about two women seeking justice and taking control of their own narratives, colliding the ancient and the modern, the tragic and the Spaghetti Western, hip-hop and Afropunk.
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£9.99£7.99
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