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NHB Modern Plays

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The Basement Flat

The Basement Flat

By Rona Munro

A short and unnerving play about families, property and rampant vegetation.

Battlefield

Battlefield

By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne

The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière revisit the great Indian epic The Mahabharata, thirty years after Brook’s legendary production took world theatre by storm.

Bazaar

Bazaar

By David Planell Translated by John Clifford

A play by young Spanish dramatist David Planell, about the hilarious attempt to get an accident video shown on TV, releasing undercurrents of racism in society.

Be My Baby

Be My Baby

By Amanda Whittington

A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.

Beached

Beached

By Melissa Bubnic

A darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns.

The Beacon

The Beacon

By Nancy Harris

A drama about a Dublin artist haunted by a mysterious accident in her past.

Beautiful Eyes

Beautiful Eyes

By Caryl Churchill

A short play about a family divided by politics, first performed in the week of Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre stage version)

    By Lucy Kirkwood and Katie Mitchell

    Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.

    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast (Young Vic stage version)

    By Laurence Boswell

    A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, with music by Mick Sands drawn from traditional French folk melodies.

    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast (RSC stage version)

    By Laurence Boswell

    A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed in this version by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast (Lyceum Theatre stage version)

    By Stuart Paterson

    A brilliant version of the classic tale, from a playwright acclaimed as 'the master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

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    A Bed of Roses

    A Bed of Roses

    By Mike Bradwell

    An acerbic and funny play about middle-class hypocrisy and universal apathy.

    Published in volume Inventing the Truth: Devising and Directing for the Theatre

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