Plays to perform

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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Cling To Me Like Ivy

Cling To Me Like Ivy

By Samantha Ellis

A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.

The Clink

The Clink

By Stephen Jeffreys

A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.

Close Quarters

Close Quarters

By Kate Bowen

A taut, funny and powerful drama about the first generation of female soldiers to serve in the British infantry in close combat.

Closer to God

Closer to God

By Anna Jordan

A short play exploring the private worlds of strangers, living side by side but generations apart.

Closing Time

Closing Time

By Owen McCafferty

McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.

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Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine

By Caryl Churchill

A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.

Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park

By Bruce Norris

An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property.

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Cockroach

Cockroach

By Sam Holcroft

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.

Cold Comfort

Cold Comfort

By Owen McCafferty

A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

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    Cold War

    Cold War (stage version)

    Adapted by Conor McPherson Original author Paweł Pawlikowski

    An epic love story spanning the decades and breadth of Europe at its most divided, adapted from the Academy Award-nominated film. Premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2023.

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    By Margaret Perry

    A funny, furious monologue about holding on in this collapsing world.

    The Collector

    The Collector

    By Henry Naylor

    A compelling tale of murder, evil and betrayal set in occupied Iraq, part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.

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