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 James Plays
James I, II and III
Rona Munro's vividly imagined historical cycle brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century.
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£19.99£15.99Add to basketEbook£19.99£15.99Rock / Paper / Scissors
Three Plays
By Chris BushThree intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy, centring around a Sheffield manufacturing family.
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£18.99£15.19Add to basketEbook£18.99£15.19Decade
Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.
By variousTen years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.
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£15.99£12.79Add to basketEbook£15.99£12.79The Middlemarch Trilogy
By George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey BeeversThree plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.
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£14.99£11.99
World Factory: The Game
By Zoë Svendsen and Simon DawA participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play – as individuals or in teams – the managers of a clothing factory in China.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)
Two plays
By Steve WatersA double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)
Two plays
By Steve WatersA double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. Original 2009 edition.
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£14.99£11.99
Hedda
By Lucy Kirkwood Original author Henrik IbsenA startling new version of Hedda Gabler, relocating Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine to London in 2008.
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£13.99£11.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£13.99£11.19Apologia
A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19No Romance
By Nancy HarrisA tender and funny tale about our secret selves, and our search for connection in a fractured world.
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£13.99£11.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£13.99£11.19A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre.
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£13.99£11.19
The Shakespeare Revue
An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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£13.99£11.19
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