Books in the NHB Modern Plays series

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

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.

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

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

Winner of the 2016 Theatre503 Playwriting Award, Andrew Thompson's debut play is about the adventures of three extraordinary women spanning 80 years, against the backdrop of humanity's journey to the stars.

A tender but truthful exploration of love and ageing, asking how we choose to live in the face of soaring life expectancies. Winner of the 2017 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Two plays by award-winning writer James Fritz, each asking urgent, pointed and complex questions of the times we live in.

A searingly powerful play about what one individual can do to effect change. Winner of the Judges' Award in the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

A play for two actors - or many more - exploring just how much wild we're comfortable with.

A heartbreaking, powerful and bitterly comic account of what it is to be a woman in wartime.

In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope. Albion is a new play by Mike Bartlett, premiering at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2017 in a production directed by Rupert Goold.

An exhilarating play about human triumph, ambition, self-doubt, and pride, set in the world of boxing.

A collection of short plays curated by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre.

A play exploring the last three decades of women in politics, asking what's changed and what still must.

A sharply funny, moving play set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and celebrating women's strength under siege.