Plays to perform

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 Tree of Knowledge

The Tree of Knowledge

By Jo Clifford

A wildly imaginative, hilariously provocative and deeply moving play from one of Scotland's most important playwrights.

The Treatment

The Treatment

By Martin Crimp

Martin Crimp's razor-sharp satire about a world in which people are products, movies are money and sex sells.

Treasure Island

Treasure Island (stage version)

By Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by Stuart Paterson

A fresh and genuinely thrilling adaptation of the classic tale, and one that keeps close to Stevenson's original story.

Treasure Island

Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete stage version)

By Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson Original author Robert Louis Stevenson

A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.

Travesty

Travesty

By Liam Williams

The debut play by Liam Williams, double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee -  about gender and the ethical dimensions of modern love.

Travelling Light

Travelling Light

By Nicholas Wright

A funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age.

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Traps

Traps

By Caryl Churchill

An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.

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trade

trade

By debbie tucker green

A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
    Touched

    Touched

    By Stephen Lowe

    A revered modern classic about life in a working-class suburb of Nottingham in the closing days of World War II.

    Touch

    Touch

    By Vicky Jones

    A shamelessly funny and brutally honest play about sex, connection and control.

    Topdog/Underdog

    Topdog/Underdog

    By Suzan-Lori Parks

    A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

    Too Much World at Once

    Too Much World at Once

    By Billie Collins

    An urgent coming-of-age story for our times, a lyrical, theatrical journey that spans continents and lives.

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