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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Testing the Echo

Testing the Echo

By David Edgar

A timely, provocative and witty look at the campaign to redefine Britishness for a multicultural society.

Testament

Testament

By Tristan Bernays

The dark underside of the Greatest Story Ever Told.

Terrorism

Terrorism

By The Presnyakov Brothers Translated by Sasha Dugdale

The extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia.

Terminus

Terminus

By Mark O'Rowe

A blackly comic vision of Dublin infested with demons.

A Tender Thing

A Tender Thing

By Ben Power

Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story.

Ten Tiny Toes

Ten Tiny Toes

By Esther Wilson

An uncompromising account of the heartbreaking choices faced by mothers today and what happens when a distant war comes home.

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Temple

Temple

By Steve Waters

A fictional account of the 2011 Occupy London movement, set in the heart of a very British crisis – a crisis of conscience, a crisis of authority and a crisis of faith.

Teenage Dick

Teenage Dick

By Mike Lew

A darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power.

Teddy Ferrara

Teddy Ferrara

By Christopher Shinn

An insightful and revealing play, inspired by real events, which explores society's uncomfortable embrace of the outsider.

Tearing the Loom

Tearing the Loom

By Gary Mitchell

A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.

Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own
    The Taxidermist's Daughter

    The Taxidermist's Daughter (stage version)

    By Kate Mosse

    A thrilling Gothic story of violence, retribution and justice, adapted for the stage by Kate Mosse from her own internationally best-selling novel.

    Tartuffe

    Tartuffe

    By Molière Adapted by Liz Lochhead

    A rollicking Scots version of Molière's classic of political satire and black comedy.

    Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

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      13–18 May 2024
      Wharf Theatre, Devizes
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