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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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Samskara

Samskara

By Lanre Malaolu

An explosive fusion of text, physical theatre and hip-hop dance exploring vulnerability, emotional trauma and what it means to be a black man in twenty-first-century Britain.

Some Of Us Exist In The Future

Some Of Us Exist In The Future

By Nkenna Akunna

An utterly original, wryly funny play about one woman's search for a place to belong in a world that's not all it seems. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Published in volume Papatango Plays
    Ghost Stories from an Old Country

    Ghost Stories from an Old Country

    By Tajinder Singh Hayer

    A riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us, threaded through with captivating fables. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

    Published in volume Papatango Plays
      The Silence and the Noise

      The Silence and the Noise

      By Tom Powell

      A play that beautifully captures the story of two young people on the edge. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

      Published in volume Papatango Plays
        Old Bridge

        Old Bridge

        By Igor Memic

        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.

        Dorian

        Dorian

        By Phoebe Eclair-Powell and Owen Horsley Original author Oscar Wilde

        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.

        Love and Other Acts of Violence

        Love and Other Acts of Violence

        By Cordelia Lynn

        A subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history.

        The Good Life

        The Good Life

        By Jeremy Sams Original author John Esmonde and Bob Larbey

        A witty reimagining of a television classic for the stage, with a wellyful of laughs that's sure to delight audiences everywhere.

        Yellowfin

        Yellowfin

        By Marek Horn

        Politics 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.

        The Long Song

        The Long Song (stage version)

        By Andrea Levy Adapted by Suhayla El-Bushra

        The 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.

        Metamorphoses

        Metamorphoses

        By Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz Original author Ovid

        An entertaining and provocative new play inspired by Ovid's powerful collection of myths.

        Duck Duck Goose

        Duck Duck Goose

        By Caitríona Daly

        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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