Plays to perform

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 Good Life

The Good Life

By Jeremy Sams Original author John Esmonde and Bob Larbey

A witty reimagining of a television classic for the stage, with a wellyful of laughs that's sure to delight audiences everywhere.

Yellowfin

Yellowfin

By Marek Horn

Politics and the planet collide in a fiercely original play about the limits of science, the power of myths, and the things we can't control.

The Long Song

The Long Song (stage version)

By Andrea Levy Adapted by Suhayla El-Bushra

The story of a young slave girl who lives through the final turbulent days of slavery on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica. Adapted from Andrea Levy's award-winning novel.

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

By Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz Original author Ovid

An entertaining and provocative new play inspired by Ovid's powerful collection of myths.

Duck Duck Goose

Duck Duck Goose

By Caitríona Daly

A viscerally charged play, full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media.

Sessions

Sessions

By Ifeyinwa Frederick

A raw, funny, bittersweet play about the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.

Anything is Possible if You Think About It Hard Enough

Anything is Possible if You Think About It Hard Enough

By Cordelia O'Neill

A moving and unexpectedly funny play about a couple grieving the loss of their child, winner of the Best New Play award at the 2022 Offies (Off West End Awards).

The Ballad of Maria Marten

The Ballad of Maria Marten

By Beth Flintoff

A thrilling play based on the nineteenth-century Red Barn Murder in Suffolk, rediscovering the lost story of the murder victim, Maria Marten.

Is God Is

Is God Is

By Aleshea Harris

A revenge tale about two women seeking justice and taking control of their own narratives, colliding the ancient and the modern, the tragic and the Spaghetti Western, hip-hop and Afropunk.

The Lodger

The Lodger

By Robert Holman

An enlightening, cathartic and acerbic new play about identity, maturity and reconciliation.

Glee & Me

Glee & Me

By Stuart Slade

A touching drama about a teenage girl diagnosed with a brain tumour, an unexpectedly optimistic portrayal of love and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.

Burgerz

Burgerz

By Travis Alabanza

A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.

 

Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

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