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.
40 Days
A play exploring the impact of state violence on Black and brown children.
Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia
A brutally comic play about home and identity, marriage and survival, blood and feathers.
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Rockets and Blue Lights
The Alfred Fagon Award-winning play that retells British history through the prism of the slave trade.
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2:22 – A Ghost Story
By Danny RobinsA spine-chilling, funny and scary play from the award-winning writer and broadcaster behind the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist.
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Big Big Sky
By Tom WellsA beautifully tender new play that explores nature's influence on love, friendship and family – the belief that anyone who's lost can be found, even in the remotest of places.
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Black Love
An explosion of form-busting storytelling, combining real-life stories, imagined worlds, and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage.
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Hungry
By Chris BushA play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.
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Still
By Frances PoetFrances Poet's play is a cathartic story of life, loss and joy, full of tenderness and humour, as five Edinburgh souls stagger towards each other and are transformed.
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Medicine
By Enda WalshA dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.
Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays
The Same
By Enda WalshA play about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.
Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays
Lava
One woman's journey into her own past becomes inextricably linked with the tides of global history in this wickedly funny, strikingly lyrical and explosive debut play. Winner of the 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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A psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them – and the climate around them – is hostile?
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