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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Passing Places

By Stephen Greenhorn

A road movie for the stage, following two young Scottish lads on their trip from dislocation to location.

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Bad Weather

By Robert Holman

A play about freedom, guilt and the possibility of redemption, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Love Upon the Throne

By Patrick Barlow

A gleefully comic retelling of the Charles and Diana story, designed to be performed by two (male) actors.

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Howie the Rookie

By Mark O'Rowe

A white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable.

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Perfect Days

By Liz Lochhead

A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.

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Acts

By Riccardo Galgani

A short play about an old couple whose son returns after years of absence.

Published in volume Family: three plays

The Visitor

By Iain Crichton Smith

A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.

Published in volume Family: three plays

Just the Three of Us

By Simon Gray

A stylish mix of the comic and the macabre, exploring ideas about love, both platonic and romantic.

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Trust

By Gary Mitchell

A play about the bonds of trust in a tight-knit Loyalist community, and how easily they are shattered, from the multi-award winning writer of The Force of Change.

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This is a Chair

By Caryl Churchill

A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.

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The Clink

By Stephen Jeffreys

A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.