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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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Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses (stage version)

By Owen McCafferty

JP Miller's 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, adapted brilliantly for the stage by Owen McCafferty.

Dead Dad Dog

Dead Dad Dog

By John McKay

An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.

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    Dealing with Clair

    Dealing with Clair

    By Martin Crimp

    A satire on yuppie moral and emotional bankruptcy and a bleak, black comedy thriller.

    Dean McBride

    Dean McBride

    By Sonya Hale

    A vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.

    Dear Lupin

    Dear Lupin (stage version)

    By Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer Adapted by Michael Simkins

    Michael Simkins' immensely charming stage adaptation of Dear Lupin, the witty and touching collection of letters from a father to his son that became a huge bestseller, winner of The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year.

    Death and the Maiden

    Death and the Maiden

    By Ariel Dorfman

    A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.

    Death of a Cyclist

    Death of a Cyclist

    By Steve Waters

    A poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.

    Death of Long Pig

    Death of Long Pig

    By Nigel Planer

    Two great artists - Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin - confront their own mortality in the strange and supernatural Polynesian islands they made their home.

    Decade

    Decade

    Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.

    By various

    Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.

    The Deep Blue Sea

    The Deep Blue Sea

    By Terence Rattigan

    Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.

    Delirium

    Delirium

    By Enda Walsh

    A radical re-interpretation of The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's classic and compelling tale of family rivalries.

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    Deluge

    Deluge

    By Fiona Doyle

    A deeply provocative thriller set in a blighted landscape where nature is fiercely taking its course, Deluge is a gripping drama from the Papatango Prize-winning author of Coolatully.

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    Olivia Hirst & David Byrne
    Amanda Whittington

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    13–18 May 2024
    Wharf Theatre, Devizes