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.
French Without Tears is the play that first made Rattigan's name, and ran for over a thousand performances in the 1930s.
This edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology. ...
An extensive guide to acting, followed by close to a hundred audition pieces chosen from the whole of world drama.
Masterclass is a unique handbook for actors, student actors and teachers.
A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist ...
The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity.
This English version of Euripides' Medea, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and ...
