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.
Raging: Wild Sky
The Rising
A play exploring the extraordinary energy and complexity of events in Ireland in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.
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Raging: Embargo
The War of Independence
A poetic, bloody and heroic tale of industrial action and civic resistance, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.
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£6.99£5.59
HOTHOUSE
A play that tackles climate breakdown with big ideas, a lot of laughs, and some truly grotesque cabaret numbers.
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£6.99£5.59
Before You Say Anything
A play that questions how everyone can be safe at the same time. A time-travelling set of interweaving stories exploring injustice, freedom and bravery.
- Ebook
£6.99£5.59
Everything Not Saved
A play about memory, happiness, Rasputin, and dancing. And also the Queen. Premiered by MALAPROP Theatre at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017.
- Ebook
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Where Sat the Lovers
A play about codes, hallucinations, Isaac Newton, war crimes, seeing meaning where there's none and vice versa. First staged by MALAPROP Theatre at the 2021 Dublin Fringe Festival.
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Skyscraper Lullaby
A powerful drama about two parents trying to come to terms with the disappearance of their toddler, written and first performed as an audio drama for Audible Original.
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Tuesdays at Tesco's
A touching one-person play about a person's true identity, the first English-language adaptation of Emmanuel Darley's hit play, Le Mardi à Monoprix.
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King of the Fields
A play set in Ayrshire after the First World War, with touches of Ibsen - from the acclaimed Scottish playwright.
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The Ballad of Crazy Paola
By Arne Sierens Adapted by Stephen GreenhornA poignant two-hander about memory, truth and love.
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Julie Burchill Is Away
By Tim FountainA one-woman show based on the life and writings of the provocative columnist, writer and broadcaster, Julie Burchill.
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Plasticine
By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha DugdaleAn extraordinary and disturbing play about post-Communist Russia by a young Siberian-born writer.
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