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.
In a Little World of Our Own
A powerful drama about how the conflict in Northern Ireland affects whole families, and of how the violence of the streets is brought into the heart of the home.
Jonesy
A short play from the author of Jumpers for Goalposts.
Kitchen
A short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.
Limbo
A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.
Little Certainties
Mario is missing, presumed dead. In the town of Tijuana, his brother and sister make a shocking discovery about Mario and his secrets.
Lost
The second play in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly.
Making Noise Quietly (short play)
The third in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly.
Miseryguts
A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.
misterman (2001 edition)
A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.
Mothers Against
A gripping account of a bitterly fought US governor's election from the Republican perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.
Notes for First Time Astronauts
A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.
On Insomnia and Midnight
In a mountain hotel an ailing guest and nervous chambermaid strike up an uneasy friendship.
