NHB Modern Plays

A startling play about what – and who – we consume.

A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

A play about love in a dog-eat-dog world, told in Mark O’Rowe’s unique rhythmic style.

An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky's masterful novel.

A ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within... a crocodile.

Lee Mattinson's extraordinary play, bringing to life a dystopian, modern-fairytale town where fact and fiction weave as tightly and snag as easily as granny's knitting.

A play with live music, waltzing and unexpected connections, exploring how we return, resettle and adapt.

A riotous comedy based on the scarcely believable true story of the greatest heist of all time: the theft of the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. From the creator of TV's Men Behaving Badly and The Durrells.

A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

An arresting, thought-provoking play about racial and social issues of the late 1950s, by the first woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.

An outrageously fun musical set in an all-girls school in the 60s, from the team behind Bad Girls: The Musical.

A play about conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties in a world trembling in the grip of a devastating epidemic.