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.
Mojo Mickybo is a vibrant and fast-paced tale of two boys growing up in Belfast in the early 1970s—one from up the road, the other from over the bridge. Their friendship centers on playing headers, ...
Set in a bedroom in well-to-do Dublin, Communion is about two brothers in their early 30s. Jordan, a trainee doctor, is bedbound and dying of a tumor; Marcus, brilliant and charismatic, has been a psychiatric ...
Vera, feisty but fading, and Ronnie, washed up and permanently half-drunk, preside over a grubby pub/hotel in present-day Belfast. We watch them—and their variously inadequate "regulars"—through one ...
Only officially attributed to Shakespeare in 1998, Edward III chronicles the beginning of the 100 Years War and acts as a prequel to Richard II.
A worm's eye view of post-Communist Russia, from the Siberian-born author of Plasticine.
A remote railway station in the 'Boundless Motherland'. Stranded there are a young spiv, selling overpriced toasters ...
A sparkling translation of Ibsen's penultimate play.
On the family estate outside Oslo at the turn of the 19th century, a man paces the floor in an upstairs room. This is John Gabriel Borkman, once a famous ...
A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body.
Imagine that you must choose one single memory from your life.
Imagine that choosing ...
A mesmerising and startling play about voyeurism, power and guilt.
Listening through their thin walls, Amelia and Jason are drawn into the dark and compelling world of their mutual neighbour Jo.
debbie ...
