Bøker i NHB Modern Plays-serien

A play with live music, waltzing and unexpected connections, exploring how we return, resettle and adapt.

Just in time for Christmas, the distinguished historian and thespian, Desmond Olivier Dingle and his assistant Raymond Box, bring us their version of the greatest story ever told. Thrill at the mystery of the virgin birth, gasp at the miracles, and be moved by the Sermon on the Hill.

A satire on yuppie moral and emotional bankruptcy and a bleak, black comedy thriller.

A one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.

Using Shakespeare's orginal lines, alongside new text, Jeanie O'Hare retells The Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the extraordinary Margaret of Anjou.

A night of debauchery and delicate connection in a play set in the city that never sleeps.

A powerfully dramatic play about Charles Darwin's voyage on board HMS Beagle - an adventure that changed not only his own life, but also the history of the entire world.

A new edition of the hugely successful musical, published alongside its West End premiere.

A radical play set in East Berlin in 1968, unfolding with all the tension of a spy thriller and the inexorable revelations of an Ibsen drama.

A National Theatre Connections play about teenagers, nightlife, and the small choices that have momentous consequences.

An explosive espionage thriller that challenges the idea that 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear', exploring how we can live freely when advances in technology outpace the law.

A passionate and timely drama that looks at the human cost of abandoning those who struggle to fit in.

A play about the manhunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, going behind the scenes to investigate the case that nearly broke the British police force.

Sally Abbott's I Think We Are Alone is a delicate and uplifting play about our fragility, resilience and our need for love and forgiveness

A darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.

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

A play about class, consent and transgressions buried in the past, set over the course of one winesoaked evening in a Dublin restaurant.

A witty and heartfelt play about two sisters, exploring family, class and dependence.

Drawing 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.

An electrifying, bittersweet love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, set in a society divided by racial bigotry and a world rocked by terrorism. Adapted from Malorie Blackman's best-selling novels. Sephy (a Cross) is the daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister. Callum is the son of a Nought agitator. United by a shared sense of injustice as children, and separated by intolerance as they grow up, their desire to be together begins to eclipse all family loyalty - sparking a political crisis of unimaginable proportions. 'I wanted to turn society as we know it on its head, with new names for the major divisions, i.e. Noughts (the underclass) and Crosses (the majority, ruling society)' - Malorie Blackman 'Dominic Cooke's excellent adaptation... a dark, politically unsentimentalised story about teenage love transcending the barriers in a deeply divided society... heart-rending' - Independent

The award-winning French play, in an English translation by Waleed Akhtar, published alongside the premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London.

Stephen Karam's award-winning drama - a blackly comic play about dealing with loss - published alongside its European premiere at Hampstead Theatre.

A tender, heartfelt drama about families - the ones we inherit and the ones we create - and the struggle to survive when times get tough.

A penetrating comedy about the search for sexual knowledge, true love, and top-notch Tupperware.

A compelling new play by Anna Jordan that explores the profound effect that war has on young lives, and asks -- what does coming home really mean?