NHB Modern Plays

Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights.

An exhilarating, challenging new play by Amnesty Award-winning playwright Clare Bayley.

A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage.

A play about the human cost of surrogacy, and what we’ll overlook to get what we want.

A sharply funny, moving play set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and celebrating women’s strength under siege.

Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life.

A stage adaptation of Zana Fraillon's powerful and deeply moving novel about the displacement and treatment of refugees and sanctuary seekers in Australia.

The stage version of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage, which is set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.

An urgent, moving and occasionally hilarious play about the migrant crisis and the politics of the Middle East.

A hard-hitting and original family drama.

A brand-new ancient-history play in verse that tells the story of one of Britain's most iconic women: a queen, a warrior and a rebel.

A moving, truthful and darkly comic play about one woman's experience of a women's refuge.