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How We Begin

A tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, staged at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.

Bé Carna

A short play in which five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin.

Bogboy

A short play in which two lost souls – a young heroin addict and a reclusive middle-aged farmer – discover a budding friendship in the bogs of Meath.

Hue & Cry

A short play in which two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.

An Old Song, Half Forgotten

A short play about the life and soul of an older actor living in care with Alzheimer's disease.

Wild Notes

A play exploring the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country he's running from.

Hedda Gabler

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

An English version of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

This is a Chair

A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.

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The Servant of Two Masters

A classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Rappaccini's Daughter

The only play by leading Mexican poet Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The House

By Arzé Khodr Translated by Khalid Laith

A play from Lebanon, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.

Egyptian Products

By Laila Soliman Translated by Khalid Laith

A play from Egypt, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.