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 serious comedy from the author of East is East, about the dying breed of Anglo-Indians living in Calcutta in 1985.
They are a vividly memorable gang of eccentrics and exotics who are attempting to come ...
A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.
A play that is at once modern and postmodern, tragedy and farce, about all and about nothing.
Caryl Churchill's This is a Chair was first performed ...
Part of the Globe Quartos series, co-published with Shakespeare's Globe marking their rediscoveries of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Once famed for its obscenity, this 17th-century ...
In the Globe Quarto series co-published with Shakespeare's Globe to mark the rediscovery of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.
The Devil's Charter is a Jacobean tragedy about Pope Alexander ...
Unrivalled practical insights into the play from one of the most influential actors and directors of Shakespeare of all time. This volume is in a handy pocket-sized format, perfect for use in the rehearsal ...
At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all ...
The classic - and most practical - guide to Shakespeare’s major plays, available in separate, pocket-format volumes for use in study or rehearsal room.
