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 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 ...
A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists.
At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by ...
An endearing yet hard-hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living.
It's Friday. The end of a long week for four Belfast tilers. Ding-Dong wants a bucket. Randolph dreams of ...
Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert Finney) ...
The text of a talk given by renowned theatre director Peter Brook in Berlin in 1998, addressing essential questions about performing Shakespeare today. Brook invites us to consider the actual conditions ...
The tragic story of incestuous love between Giovanni and his sister Annabella.
When Annabella is found to be pregnant by her brother, she agrees to marry her suitor Soranzo. But when the lovers' incestuous ...
One of Scotland’s most popular writers, the multi-award-winning Liz Lochhead, takes on Molière’s most famous play. Le Misanthrope is a bitter comedy about a sophisticated Parisian who cannot help ...
