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.
When Max Stafford-Clark, then artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, took the unusual step of choosing to stage a classic—George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer—he decided to keep a rehearsal ...
A bold, witty and fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel which, while thoroughly modern, retains the spirit and much of the language of the original.
It is night-time and an exhausted Jane Austen sleeps ...
Two plays from the author of The Wexford Trilogy.
The Cavalcaders (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1993) is a rousing, comic play set in an old-fashioned cobbler's shop in small-town southern Ireland.
Terry ...
A classic fairy tale with a twist, from the UK's leading author of plays for young audiences.
The ugly sisters and the vicious stepmother get their come-uppance, but Cinders, in a thoroughly refreshing ...
A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises - a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical ...
Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.
Alsemero has fallen in love with the beautiful Beatrice after a chance meeting in a church ...
The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband explores corruption and morality, bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
Ambitious government minister ...
A fast and bloody black comedy that sheds light on four of the most ignored figures in English history—the knights who actually had to kill Thomas Becket.
The four young knights who have just assassinated ...
The best-loved English comedy of the 18th century, a lighthearted farce full of entanglements and misunderstandings, all set over the course of single, eventful night.
Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops ...
Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare’s major roles. * Brian Cox on Titus Andronicus in Deborah Warner’s visceral ...