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.
The Visitor
A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.
Prickly Heat
A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.
Inventing a New Colour
A war-time Exeter family takes in an evacuee from London.
The Guid Sisters
Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.
Manon / Sandra
A controversial but humane play about an obsessively religious girl and a sex-obsessed transvestite, by the renowned Quebecois writer.
Albertine in Five Times
A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.
PMQ
A short play set in a Westminster dressing room, as Prime Minister Dave prepares for his first ever bout of Prime Minister's Questions.
When Cows Go Boom
A short play by Stacey Gregg, an oblique parable of love set against the backdrop of a horrific landscape.
Love in a Glass Jar
A short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.
Meeting Miss Ireland
A short play commissioned and performed as part of The Fairer Sex, a series of play readings at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in June 2009.
Salad Day
A short play about an elderly couple who, trapped in a nursing home, plot a daring escape into the sunshine.
Nineteen Ninety-Two
A short play about two brothers biding their time to savour revenge - but how can they be sure they've got the right girl?
