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.
Racine's reworking of Euripides' Hippolytus, celebrated for its tragic construction and the richness of its language.
Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson and believing Theseus, ...
The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster ...
Frank is a forty-something failed writer. He is in the grips of an undeclared passion for his best friend’s 17-year-old son, whom he has saved from drowning with mouth to mouth resuscitation. After ...
Just in time for Christmas, the distinguished historian and thespian, Desmond Olivier Dingle, and his incompetent, er, valiant assistant, Raymond Box, bring us their version of the greatest story ever ...
Jesse is the last of the great Blues singers. A mistaken identity in a car crash when he was 60 results in everybody thinking he’s dead. A rock-music megastar from England tracks Jesse down to his humble ...
Two brothers share the house they grew up in, and then share the woman they both love. They have a daughter, but who is the father? Spanning thirty years and offering a new slant on the eternal triangle, ...
Lulu is a walking, talking object of sexual desire. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prostitute ...
Timothy West is held in high-regard and great affection for roles as diverse as Edward VII and Thomas Beecham, Falstaff and Uncle Vanya, Stalin and Churchill, and he became a household name in the TV ...
A drug-taking hard man from the city returns home to the Highlands to try to recapture the innocence of his youth.
Ray got away from the far north of Scotland years ago. Went south. Found a new way to ...
A blackly comic drama set in a crazed, completely re-imagined Dublin underworld, full of martial arts, rogue cops and savage low-lifes. From the award-winning writer of Howie the Rookie.
Paddy's weapons ...