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 Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage (stage version)

By Philip Pullman Adapted by Bryony Lavery

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.

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Borders

By Henry Naylor

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

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born bad

By debbie tucker green

A hard-hitting and original family drama.

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Boudica

By Tristan Bernays

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.

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Box Clever

By Monsay Whitney

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

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Boy Parts (stage version)

By Eliza Clark Adapted by Gillian Greer

A pitch-black psychological thriller based on the critically acclaimed debut novel by Eliza Clark. Premiered at Soho Theatre, London.

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Boys

By Ella Hickson

Four boys face the tricky transition to adulthood in Ella Hickson's riot of a play.

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Boys and Girls

By Carys D. Coburn

A play in verse following four young people across one night in Dublin.

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Boys Will Be Boys

By Melissa Bubnic

An exhilarating play about a ruthless female City trader who takes on a young and ambitious protegee.

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Br'er Cotton

By Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm

A scorching play about a fourteen-year-old boy struggling to make sense of his place in an impoverished world filled with seemingly random killings of young black men.