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 powerful show that brings the subject of war close to home. ”—The Scotsman
“Lichtenstein’s heartbreaking play looks with compassion at one facing the worst that life can throw at them. ”— ...
An old couple in a bare room with a high window are compelled to tell a grisly tale: A village in which people’s tongues are cut out, among other horrific tortures, making them “The Silent. ” From ...
Dublin 1850. A “do-gooding” Quaker woman and her husband are visited by a freed American slave and the Yorkshire man who bought her freedom. An engrossingly believable portrait of a period when professions ...
A step-by-step guide to Physical Theatre in both theory and practice - full of detailed exercises and inspiring ideas. In Through the Body, based on twelve years of teaching physical theatre, Dymphna ...
“Full credit to adaptor and director Tim Luscombe for avoiding the more obvious titles and staging an earlier work that transfers more felicitously to the stage. ”—Guardian
As she moves through the ...
A karaoke competition at the Rainworth Miners’ Welfare Club brings together seasoned pro and talented beginner. As the all-singing, all-dancing Satin ‘n Steel, they set their sights on the big time. ...
Famously censored by the Master of Revels and then revised—probably by Shakespeare himself—this is the story of Henry VIII’s chancellor, executed for failing to arrange Henry’s divorce from Catherine ...
A Middle-Eastern leader comes out of hiding and is hounded from state to state by the forces of the Roman Empire, who threaten sanctions and ultimately war on anyone who harbors him.
England, 1656. After the execution of the king, the country veers dangerously toward anarchy. Against this background, John Milton and Oliver Cromwell meet for a heated debate about how a country can ...
A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.
Mary Adams, aged 19, is unmarried and seven months pregnant. Forcibly sent to a Mother-and-Baby Home in the north of England by a ...