Nick Hern Books

Titles by Global Majority authors

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The Father and the Assassin

The Father and the Assassin

By Anupama Chandrasekhar

A gripping play about the man who murdered Mahatma Gandhi, premiered at the National Theatre, London.

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

By Suzan-Lori Parks

An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights.

Favour

Favour

By Ambreen Razia

A touching and hopeful family drama about a working-class Muslim family, tackling duty, addiction and the challenge of pulling yourself back together after it all falls apart.

Fences

Fences

By August Wilson

A landmark play about a baseball star fighting for the right to be first black man to drive a garbage truck in 1950s Pittsburgh.

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The Fire This Time

The Fire This Time

African-American Plays for the 21st Century

Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Robert Alexander

A collection of African-American plays for the 21st century.

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The Fishermen

The Fishermen (stage version)

By Chigozie Obioma Adapted by Gbolahan Obisesan

A powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate set in a small Nigerian town. Adapted from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel.

Five Years with the White Man

Five Years with the White Man

By Eloka Obi and Saul Boyer

A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.

Fixer

Fixer

By Lydia Adetunji

An unsettling, intelligent and savagely funny play about oil geopolitics and the price of human life.

Flyin' West and Other Plays

Flyin' West and Other Plays

By Pearl Cleage

A collection of work for the stage that provides a remarkable and penetrating look at the African-American experience over the last 100 years.

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Free Outgoing

Free Outgoing

By Anupama Chandrasekhar

A play that sets the rampant technology of the modern world against the conservatism of a traditional society. The British debut of a writer from Chennai, India.

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The Funeral Director

The Funeral Director

By Iman Qureshi

An incisive and heartfelt play about sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. Winner of the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize.

generations

generations

By debbie tucker green

A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
    Ghost Stories from an Old Country

    Ghost Stories from an Old Country

    By Tajinder Singh Hayer

    A riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us, threaded through with captivating fables. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

    Published in volume Papatango Plays
      The Gift

      The Gift

      By Janice Okoh

      An outrageous play about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea.

      Gloria

      Gloria

      By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

      A razor-sharp comic drama about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder.

      Goats

      Goats

      By Liwaa Yazji Translated by Katharine Halls

      A play about the impact of war on a small town in Syria, by a leading Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker.

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      God's Property

      God's Property

      By Arinzé Kene

      A timely and compelling play about race, brotherhood and the weight of past mistakes.

      Golden Child

      Golden Child

      By David Henry Hwang

      David Hwang invokes the age in which his great grandfather broke with Confucian tradition by converting to Christianity and unbinding his daughter's feet. Golden Child explores the impact of these momentous decisions  on succeeding generations.

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      good dog

      good dog

      By Arinzé Kene

      A theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control.

      A Good House

      A Good House

      By Amy Jephta

      A funny, thrilling and provocative play exploring race, resentment and community politics, from a leading South African playwright.

      debbie tucker green plays: one

      debbie tucker green plays: one

      By debbie tucker green

      A collection of six plays by one of the most distinctive playwrights working today.

      The Ground On Which I Stand

      The Ground On Which I Stand

      By August Wilson

      A passionate and controversial call for black cultural separatism, from the author of the Olivier award-winning Jitney and the Pulitzer Prize-winning King Hedley II.

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      Habibti Driver

      Habibti Driver

      By Shamia Chalabi and Sarah Henley

      A heartwarming and hilarious play exploring the clashes, compromises and comedy that come with living in a mixed-culture family in today's Britain.

      Hamilton and Me

      Hamilton and Me

      An Actor's Journal

      By Giles Terera Foreword by Lin-Manuel Miranda

      A unique, inside account of preparing for, rehearsing and performing in one of the most important cultural phenomena of our time – Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda – from London's original Aaron Burr.