Books in the NHB Modern Plays series

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

A riotous celebration of sisterhood, showing that while life may throw up unexpected turbulence, friendships will last the course.

Kate Bowen's taut, funny and powerful play follows three pioneering young women in the world's most dangerous workplace.

A funny, touching and thought-provoking comedy drama about the members of a village choir.

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.

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 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 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.

Two plays about contemporary life in Ireland, from award-winning writer John O'Donovan.

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

An extraordinary drama about an ordinary family who must balance the challenges of daily life whilst living with dementia.

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

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