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.
Cinzano and Smirnova's Birthday depict the grim reality of domestic life in Soviet Russia. In Cinzano, three young men drink themselves into a stupor to escape their drab lives and family responsibilities. ...
In Havana in 2000, a former musician steals a newly unveiled statue of John Lennon, remembering a time when The Beatles were not so celebrated in Cuba. In January 2004, El Concierto won the Pinheiro Prize ...
We Happy Few follows a seven-woman amateur troupe as it travels the country’s schools and village greens during World War II playing a repertoire of Shakespeare and other classics. Disasters happen, ...
Richard Eyre's high-profile adaptation of Ibsen's famous 'problem play' about a headstrong woman's determination to control those around her.
Arriving home after an extended honeymoon, Hedda struggles ...
A biting satire on the morals of Victorian society. Lady Windermere discovers that her husband may be having an affair with another woman. She confronts her husband but he instead invites the other woman, ...
Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.
Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism, A Dream ...
