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.
Fugue
A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.
Reader
A compulsive, gripping and intense play from the author of Death and the Maiden.
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A Little Night Music
An utterly sophisticated and charming musical boasting such numbers as 'Send in the Clowns' and 'A Weekend in the Country'.
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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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Waiting Room Germany
A raw and honest verbatim-theatre play about post-reunification Germany, commissioned in 1994 by Der Spiegel to test the mood of the new Germany.
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Stanley
A brilliant and painfully truthful portrait of Stanley Spencer, the wayward genius of modern British painting.
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The Thickness of Skin
An intricate, tender play about the obligations we have to one another, and those we would rather not.
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According to Hoyle
A comedy drama about male friendship in which five old friends meet for a traditional evening of poker.
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Death and the Maiden
A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Smelling a Rat
By Mike LeighA black comedy/farce from the author of Abigail's Party, premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1988.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (stage version)
By Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by David EdgarA superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Beauty and the Beast (Young Vic stage version)
A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, with music by Mick Sands drawn from traditional French folk melodies.
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