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 Unthinkable

By Steve Waters

A hard-hitting play about the collapse of idealism in contemporary politics.

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Through a Cloud

By Jack Shepherd

A historical play about a battle of wits between Oliver Cromwell and John Milton, by the well-known actor Jack Shepherd.

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Forty Winks

By Kevin Elyot

A heart-wrenching drama of anguish and missed opportunities.

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His Dark Materials (stage version)

By Philip Pullman Adapted by Nicholas Wright

A two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's extraordinary award-winning fantasy trilogy, first seen at the National Theatre.

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A Number

By Caryl Churchill

A fascinating meditation on human cloning, personal identity and the conflicting claims of nature and nurture.

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The Small Things

By Enda Walsh

A fierce and devastating fable about enforced silence.

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Merlin the Magnificent

By Stuart Paterson

The story of King Arthur, Merlin and the sword in the stone, retold by Scotland's leading writer of plays for children.

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Satin 'n' Steel

By Amanda Whittington

A comic two-hander about the irresistible allure of showbusiness, from the author of Be My Baby.

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One Day All This Will Come to Nothing

By Catherine Grosvenor

A dark, twisted, captivating play about living with loss.

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Improbable Frequency

By Arthur Riordan

The smash-hit musical comedy of spies, double agents and the laws of improbability.

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Port Authority

By Conor McPherson

A wry, moving, funny tale of how modern man faces up to the responsibility of love, woven in monologues, from the multi-award winning author of The Weir.