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.

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The True Life Fiction of Mata Hari

By Diane Samuels

A play about the notorious World War One femme fatale known as Mata Hari.

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Plasticine

By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha Dugdale

An extraordinary and disturbing play about post-Communist Russia by a young Siberian-born writer.

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Miseryguts

By Liz Lochhead Original author Molière

A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.

Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

Tartuffe

By Molière Adapted by Liz Lochhead

A rollicking Scots version of Molière's classic of political satire and black comedy.

Published in volume Miseryguts & Tartuffe

The Night Heron

By Jez Butterworth

A dark, funny, spellbinding play about a group of outcasts and eccentrics gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens.

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Vincent in Brixton

By Nicholas Wright

A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway.

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Julie Burchill Is Away

By Tim Fountain

A one-woman show based on the life and writings of the provocative columnist, writer and broadcaster, Julie Burchill.

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Mother Teresa is Dead

By Helen Edmundson

A gripping play exploring Western guilt towards the Third World, from an author well-known for her award-winning adaptations for Shared Experience and the National Theatre.

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Iron

By Rona Munro

An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them.