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.
An intriguing and offbeat play about family and religion.
When the remains of missing writer Harry Golden are discovered, five years after he went missing, his daughters must come to terms with the fact ...
Lessing's 18th-century masterpiece, a passionate plea for religious tolerance.
Jerusalem, 1192. An uneasy stalemate exists between the Muslim forces of Saladin and the western Crusaders. Caught in the ...
A gripping drama of sex, power and passion from the Spanish Golden Age.
A peasant wedding. Just as Peribanez and Casilda become man and wife, the Commander of the region is carried dying to their home. ...
Harriet Walter's wonderfully practical—and personal—introduction to acting.
"Acting is what I do with who I am," writes Harriet Walter. And in this book she takes us step by step through the processes ...
Following her award-winning Medea, Liz Lochhead has revisited the Greek classics and retold the stories of Oedipus and Antigone in a dazzling new Scots-inflected version of the Thebans. Lochhead is a ...
The Maths Tutor is a wry and incisive new play exposing how our desire for normal family life and our fears about adults, young people and sex can sometimes outride the truth. Claire McIntyre is a winner ...
A violent tragedy by a contemporary of Nero, in a faithful and uncut translation by one of our leading dramatists. Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes's ...
