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Separate Tables

Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth.

The Rover

A classic Restoration comedy by one of the earliest and most celebrated female playwrights. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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The Winslow Boy

Rattigan's 1946 play based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order.

She Stoops to Conquer

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. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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A Place at the Table

A play about the dog-eat-dog world of television.

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The Custom of the Country

Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

    The Desert Air

    A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

    Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

      Cressida

      A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

      Albert Speer

      A panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.

      Kes (stage version)

      A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel.

      The Good Samaritan

      A provocative drama about good intentions going awry, from the well-known stage and screen actor.

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      The Antipodes

      An ingenious satirical comedy, often considered playwright Richard Brome's masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of the Caroline era, presenting a farcically topsy-turvey view of London in the 1630s.

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      Under the Blue Sky

      A triptych of love stories in a play about unrequited affection, obsession, sex, and the possibility of being happy.

      The Changeling

      Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.

      So Long Life

      A comedy drama portraying a ghastly family gathering with great humour and unflinching honesty.

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      I Just Stopped By To See The Man

      A play about the myth surrounding an old blues singer, from the author of The Libertine.

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      Japes

      A funny and sardonic play about two brothers trapped in a love triangle with the woman they both love.

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      Emma (stage version)

      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.