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.
"Edgar’s main theme is how precisely the US got where it is today . . . in the big, bold Daughters of the Revolution, he uses a political thriller to show how the 1960’s radical baby-boomers turned ...
“A quite wonderful idea …So blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself. ”—Sir Peter Hall
This brand new edition accurately ...
Molière's most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him into deep trouble.
Alceste, the 'misanthrope', hates all mankind, and ...
A poignant, elegiac short play from the author of East is East.
As his mother fades away, a son returns to the house where he grew up. It is empty, but full of reminders of how she once was. She, meanwhile, ...
A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate.
King Agamemnon, on returning from the Trojan Wars, is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover. Now, to avenge the crime, their daughter Electra must ...
Two tense and unnerving short plays from talented Brazilian playwright, Marcos Barbosa.
In Almost Nothing, Antonio and Sara are being playful as they prepare to go to bed, but they cannot ignore what ...
George Orwell’s 1945 satire on the perils of Stalinism has proved magnificently long-lived as a parable about totalitarianism anywhere—and has given the world at least one immortal phrase: “Everyone ...
A vivid, emotional stage version of Mary Webb's novel of rural passion, premiered by Shared Experience Theatre Company.
Incorporating traditional dances and folk songs, Gone to Earth tells the story ...
