Nick Hern Books is a London-based independent specialist publisher of plays, theatre books, and screenplays. Their list includes work by many of the UK’s preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. They work with major theatres across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their premieres. Nick Hern Books titles are available in Canada through Playwrights Canada Press.
A triptych of short plays on the theme of family, from three generations of Scottish writers.
Acts by Riccardo Galgani: an old couple have not seen their son in years. One day he walks back into their ...
Part of the Nick Hern Books Dramatic Contexts series: important statements on the theatre by major figures in the theatre.
One of the most influential tracts in world theatre, Aristotle's Poetics ...
Part of the Dramatic Contexts series: important statements on the theatre by major figures in the theatre.
A distillation of Sir Peter Hall's thinking on the state of theatre. In the first part - the ...
Dryden's 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.
Antony and Octavius Caesar are struggling for control of what was to become the Roman Empire. ...
The political tragedy of a King ruled by his infatuation for young Gaveston. Set in early fourteenth-century Britain, Christopher Marlowe's play follows Edward II as he indulges his passion and renounces ...
Bulgakov's satire creates a grotesque, tragicomic world in which men and women are entirely at the mercy of chance. Flight is played out in eight "dreams" that take us from the frozen landscape of the ...
A classic 19th-century French farce by Eugène Labiche.
Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a bush. The owner of the hat is a former girlfriend who insists ...
Tearing the Loom (1998) is a searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.
In a Little World of Our Own (1997) is ...
Pirandello's ingenious detective story about a young woman who is hounded by the press after the death of a child in her care.
A poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg, about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories.
In the 60s, Horace, Jerry and Judy were teenagers. They were into drink, ...