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.
The Sugar Wife
Love, lust, prostitution and slavery in a 19th-century Quaker household. Winner of the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99Sugar Baby
By Alan HarrisA one-man comedy-drama about a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain
By Sami IbrahimA poetic fable for the stage, about an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Sucking Dublin
By Enda WalshA fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.
Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking DublinStuff
By Tom WellsA play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Strawberries in January
By Evelyne de la Chenelière Translated by Rona MunroA biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montréal, in a version by Rona Munro.
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£10.99£8.79
strangers, babies
By Linda McLeanThe chilling story of one woman's desperate attempts at a future that's worth living.
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£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Strangers in Between
By Tommy MurphyTommy Murphy's unflinching and constantly surprising drama about how we make sense of who we are through our often fraught relations with others.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Strange Death of John Doe
By Fiona DoyleA powerful and poignant drama about the search for the identity of a young man whose body is found face down in a suburban street.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Stories
By Nina RaineA funny and touching new play about the fertilisation of an idea.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99
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