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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Before You Say Anything

By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP Theatre

A play that questions how everyone can be safe at the same time. A time-travelling set of interweaving stories exploring injustice, freedom and bravery.

Ebook~~£6.99~~ £5.59
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Being Friends

By Robert Holman

The first of the three plays that make up Robert Holman's acclaimed dramatic trilogy Making Noise Quietly.

Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

Belfry

By Billy Roche

A deeply moving tale about what lies beneath the surface of everyday lives.

Published in volume The Wexford Trilogy

Belleville

By Amy Herzog

Amy Herzog's devastating play about an American newlywed couple who move to a boho neighbourhood in Paris, only for their relationship to begin to unravel.

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Better Days Better Knights

By Stanley Eveling

A sweet-hearted tale of a washed-up knight-of-old, from the grandfather of modern Scottish playwriting.

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Big Big Sky

By Tom Wells

A beautifully tender new play that explores nature's influence on love, friendship and family – the belief that anyone who's lost can be found, even in the remotest of places.

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Big Ole Piece of Cake

By Sean McLoughlin

A sparky play from the winner of the Irish Times Best New Play Award and the Stewart Parker Trust Award (for Noah and the Tower Flower).

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Big White Fog

By Theodore Ward

A poignant family drama set in Chicago against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the inescapable racism of the times.

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Bird

By Katherine Chandler

Winner of a Judges Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Bird is a raw, delicate and bold play about growing up in a care home, and eventually leaving it for the outside world.

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Bird

By Laura Lomas

A cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights.

Published in volume Bird and other monologues for young women