NHB Modern Plays
8 total works
In a fabric shop, a dying mother challenges her daughters to weave her the greatest tale, using nothing more than pieces of cloth. A Fringe First Award-winning fable about the power of mythology to change your life.
Written by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy, and created in parnership with Mulberry School in East London, The Unravelling is ideal for performance by schools and youth groups.
It was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009, where it won a Fringe First Award.
A school group on a Media Studies field trip to the isolated country house of a black-and-white movie pioneer enter a sinister dreamworld when they go exploring after dark. Once they step through the movie screen, each of the young friends meets their dream double, the sinister Neverborn…
The Dream Collector is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.
A twenty-four-hour school fundraiser in a semi-rural town takes on a new urgency when farmer's daughter Cara refuses to eat again until the supermarkets she holds responsible for her father's suicide agree to her demands.
Fast is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.
Fast was commissioned by Y Touring theatre company, and was workshopped at Regent High School in Camden, London, before being performed as part of a young people's summer school run by Y Touring in August 2014.
A touching family tale about resentment and forgiveness on the night before a wedding, Mehndi Night explores the pleasures and pains of a cross-cultural identity in twenty-first century Britain.
Written by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy, and created in parnership with Mulberry School in East London, Mehndi Night is ideal for performance by schools and youth groups.
It was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007.
A silent girl finds her voice, and her mother, when a mysterious East End antiques dealer teaches her how small actions lead to big effects, and how to master the law of unintended consequences.
The Domino Effect – a five-star hit at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.
From the heart of London's East End, 'stolen secrets' are urban fairytales, bold, lyrical and gruesome, that can be performed individually or together for maximum shock value.
Written by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy, and created in parnership with Mulberry School in East London, Stolen Secrets is ideal for performance by schools and youth groups.
It was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008.
Four young friends leave the city behind and head into the wilderness, but a burning secret threatens to tear their lives apart. A bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.
Written by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy, and created in parnership with Mulberry School in East London, The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping is ideal for performance by schools and youth groups.
It was first performed at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2010.
– Every man for himself.
– I'd say we're better off sticking together.
In a mysterious dystopia, against a backdrop of war, a life raft filled with children is adrift at sea – their passenger liner sunk by an unknown and unseen enemy.
As darkness falls and their rations dwindle, fear, superstition and madness start to take hold. Hours turn into days, and it becomes clear that not all of them will make it back to dry land alive...
Life Raft is a thrilling contemporary adaptation of The Raft of the Medusa, Georg Kaiser's 1945 play, written during his exile from Nazi Germany, and inspired by a terrifying true story.
Written by Fin Kennedy in collaboration with Bristol Old Vic's acclaimed Young Company, and originally performed by them under the direction of Melly Still, this large-cast play for young actors is a dark study in the psychology of survival – and an urgent allegory for our times.
This definitive edition of the play is accompanied by a series of interactive games specially created by award-winning games designer Tassos Stevens, allowing young people a deeper exploration of the play’s themes, and the opportunity to create their own new stories inspired by the scenario.