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.
A Christmas Carol (RSC stage version)
An adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic – one of the best-loved stories ever written – that rediscovers the social conscience of the timeless tale.
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Wilderness (short play)
A short play about a patient and her psychiatrist as they head into the wilderness to find out how sane any of us really are.
Published in volume Women Centre Stage: Eight Short Plays By and About Women
Three
A short play about three young Israelis caught up in a hostage situation.
Published in volume One Jewish Boy
Distant Early Warning
A short play set in 2053 in what was once Greenland.
Published in volume A Hundred Words for Snow
War and Peace Gaza Piece
A short play about war and family life.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
Tickets are Now On Sale
A short play about sponsorship and the arts.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
Beautiful Eyes
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
Three More Sleepless Nights
An explosive short play about human interaction and love-tangled relationships.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
Treetops
A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
Who is Sylvia?
Rattigan's play about obsessive love, a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.
Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue
Wolf Hall (stage version)
By Hilary Mantel Adapted by Mike PoultonThe 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.
Published in volume Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)
Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)
By Hilary Mantel Adapted by Mike PoultonThe 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.
Published in volume Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)
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