Bøger i NHB Modern Plays serien

A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope.

A fable about the moral and environmental cost of our materialistic nesting instincts.

A play that challenges our understanding of mythology, and forces us to ask vital questions about military occupation.

A chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic novel about the disappearance of three Australian schoolgirls in the summer of 1900.

A moving, funny and charming play that takes you through decades of history seen through the eyes of one village resident.

A theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control.

A collection of monologues that document, remember and bear witness to a century of struggle for progress and equality for women in the United Kingdom.

An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.

A dark comedy that throws a lively and topical spotlight on 'Generation Rent' and the lengths they will go to in order to get that first step on the property ladder.

A tender, dark and funny look at a co-dependent relationship between a brother and a sister, and how they cope when the world bursts in on them.

A play about the human cost of surrogacy, and what we'll overlook to get what we want.

A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love.

Ex-boxer Taylor Flint wants to put the past behind her. Yet back on the Hull estate where she grew up, she is drawn into running a boxercise class. Amanda Whittington's play is inspired by Hull's original Mighty Atom, Barbara Buttrick.

A one-man comedy-drama about a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris.

A historical drama about the 18-year-old Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and the protestant reformer, John Knox.

A darkly funny political thriller, winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play.

Kevin Elyot's evocative final play, a hilarious and heartbreaking tale of one family's hidden liaisons over half a century.

Sondheim's landmark musical about a reunion of showgirls, with a book by James Goldman.

An affecting play, based on a true story, about what happens when our world is turned upside down.

Funny, fresh and packed with razor-sharp wit, Kevin Elyot's landmark drama questions the nature of fidelity and the limits of love.

A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.

A barnstorming new play about Britain's famous warrior Queen. Published alongside the world premiere at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London. AD 61, Britannia. On the furthest outreaches of the Roman Empire - at the very edge of the known world - rebellion is brewing.Queen Boudica has returned. And she will make Rome quake in fear.

A comedy about getting away from it all - the debut play from the BAFTA Award-winning co-writer and co-creator of Peep Show, Fresh Meat and Four Lions.

A collection of five plays by Alexi Kaye Campbell: The Pride, Apologia, The Faith Machine, Bracken Moor and Sunset at the Villa Thalia.

A moving, truthful and darkly comic play about one woman's experience of a women's refuge.

Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals.

A dazzlingly funny and original drama about identity, guilt, contemporary culture and the second coming of Kanye West.

The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Helene Estienne and Jean-Claude Carriere revisit the great Indian epic The Mahabharata, thirty years after Brook's legendary production took world theatre by storm.

A backstage view of Ancient Rome at its most bloody and brutal, adapted by Mike Poulton from Robert Harris's bestselling The Cicero Trilogy.

A fascinating blend of dark hilarity and melancholy, woven from Patrick Hamilton's much-loved story about an improbable heroine in wartime Britain.