NHB Modern Plays
Three More Sleepless Nights
An explosive short play about human interaction and love-tangled relationships.
Treetops
A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.
Who is Sylvia?
Rattigan's play about obsessive love, a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.
Wolf Hall (stage version)
The first part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.
Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)
The second part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.
The Custom of the Country
Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.
One Fine Day
A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.
Writer's Cramp
The debut play from the author of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti, taking satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions.
Your Turn to Clean the Stair
A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.
Bird
A cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights.
Gypsy Girl
A monologue first performed by Laura Lomas at Soho Theatre, London, on 5 October 2009 as part of Paines Plough's LATER programme.
