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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A psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them – and the climate around them – is hostile?
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99"Daddy": A Melodrama
A blistering melodrama from Jeremy O. Harris, whose play Slave Play received a record twelve nominations at the 74th Tony Awards.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79(Not) the End of the World
By Chris BushA daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism.
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£7.99£6.39
#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
A timely play based on the true story of an imprisoned Nobel Laureate.
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A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Winner of a Fringe First Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.7915 Heroines
15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
By variousDrawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.191972: The Future of Sex
A devised play about three couples having sex for the first time – and a country on the brink of a sexual awakening.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.591984 (stage version)
By George Orwell Adapted by Nick HernA bold and powerful dramatisation of George Orwell's classic dystopia, ideal for any school, youth group or amateur company.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.792:22 – A Ghost Story
By Danny RobinsA spine-chilling, funny and scary play from the award-winning writer and broadcaster behind the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.792nd May 1997
By Jack ThorneA play set on the day that New Labour swept into government, telling three deeply personal stories of euphoria and despair.
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A hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life.
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3 Winters
A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. Winner of the 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.7940 Days
By Firdos AliA play exploring the impact of state violence on Black and brown children.
Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British WritersThe 47th
A viciously funny play offering a dazzling glimpse into the underbelly of the greatest political show on earth: the US presidential race.
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By Edward KempAn epic and incendiary thriller about the Gunpowder Plot, weaving together the lives of kings, terrorists, priests and spies.
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A short play about a young woman who, after shoplifting for the first time, is chased by the store detective.
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£3.99£3.19
55 Days
A gripping historical play that dramatises a crucial moment of English history.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39603
By Imad Farajin Translated by Hassan AbdulrazzakA play from Palestine, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.
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£5.99£4.79
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