NHB Modern Plays

A riotous musical play transporting Shakespeare's most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series.

An ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

A short play about two children forced into prostitution.

An intimate and visceral play that dives into the mind of a young Black queer man wrestling with anxiety. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.

A riotous comedy about love, death and responsibility.

An intoxicating and mystical play about love, belonging and the tides within us, premiered by Pentabus and ThickSkin on a tour of the UK.

A one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.

An infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.

A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam.

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

A razor-sharp comedy about the people who shape – and skew – the economy.

A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.