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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Good Things

By Liz Lochhead

A bittersweet romantic comedy about finding love later in life, from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.

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stoning mary

By debbie tucker green

Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology.

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Northanger Abbey (stage version)

By Jane Austen Adapted by Tim Luscombe

A delightful stage version of Jane Austen's earliest novel, her mock-Gothic Romance.

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Chimps

By Simon Block

A blisteringly funny black comedy about the perils awaiting any unsuspecting home-owner.

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A Single Act

By Jane Bodie

A subtle and menacing play about life after a terrorist outrage.

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Be My Baby

By Amanda Whittington

A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.

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The President of an Empty Room

By Steven Knight

Voodoo, heroin and tobacco in a Cuban cigar factory, from the award-winning screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things.

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East Coast Chicken Supper

By Martin J. Taylor

A scabrously funny look at 'young enterprise' in modern Scotland.

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Fair

By Joy Wilkinson

A powerful drama about the potent appeal of far right policies to young people in the UK.

Published in volume Fair & Felt Effects: two plays

Felt Effects

By Joy Wilkinson

A play that unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.

Published in volume Fair & Felt Effects: two plays

On the Ceiling

By Nigel Planer

A quirky comedy about the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, from the well-known actor and writer - seen in the West End starring Ron Cook and Ralf Little.