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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Zoo and Twelve Comic Monologues for Women

By Lily Bevan

A wildly inventive comedy drama about courage, female friendship and flamingos. This volume also includes twelve comic monologues for female performers.

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Yous Two

By Georgia Christou

A moving portrayal of the conflict between personal aspiration and familial responsibility, and what happens when those you should depend on need you more than you need them.

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Your Turn to Clean the Stair

By Rona Munro

A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.

Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue

You, Me and Wii

By Sue Townsend

A short play by the author of the Adrian Mole books, set in a council house in a small Leicestershire town at election time.

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You Stupid Darkness!

By Sam Steiner

An urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart.

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Yen

By Anna Jordan

Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own.

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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.

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Wuthering Heights (stage version)

By Emily Brontë Adapted by Lucy Gough

An eminently actable, and readable, version of the well-loved story about a passionate but doomed love affair, one of the most famous and enduring love stories in the English language.

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Wuthering Heights (stage version)

By Emily Brontë Adapted by Andrew Sheridan

A ferocious, wild and utterly exhilarating adaptation of Emily Brontë's indelible masterpiece.

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Written on the Heart

By David Edgar

An enthralling historical drama about the creation of the King James Bible, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to mark its four-hundredth anniversary.