Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Coming Clean

Coming Clean

By Kevin Elyot

Funny, fresh and packed with razor-sharp wit, Kevin Elyot’s landmark drama questions the nature of fidelity and the limits of love.

Coming to Terms: American Plays & the Vietnam War

Coming to Terms: American Plays & the Vietnam War

Edited by James Reston Jr.

An inspiring and often poignant collection of plays written in the era of the Vietnam War, from some of the most revered American playwrights, reflecting on the social and political ethos of a pivotal moment for America.

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Comment is Free

Comment is Free

By James Fritz

A journalist forms the centre of a devastating media storm in James Fritz's urgent, gripping and innovative play.

Comment is Free & Start Swimming

Comment is Free & Start Swimming

Two plays

By James Fritz

Two plays by award-winning writer James Fritz, each asking urgent, pointed and complex questions of the times we live in.

Company

Company (US edition)

By Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's iconic musical comedy about life, love and marriage.

Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics

Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics

By George Furth and Stephen Sondheim

Published alongside the acclaimed, reimagined West End revival in 2018, this edition of Sondheim's hit musical features the complete revised book and lyrics for the production, plus colour production photographs.

The Complaint

The Complaint

By Nick Whitby

A chilling play set in a Kafkaesque world where nothing is quite as it seems, and where office politics can lead to unlawful questioning, torture and even murder...

The Concert / El Concierto

The Concert / El Concierto

By Ulises Rodriquez Febles Translated by William Gregory

A fascinating glimpse into the social and cultural complexities of Castro's Cuba.

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Concord Floral

Concord Floral

By Jordan Tannahill

The Decameron meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in a supernatural thriller of suburban teenagers fleeing a mysterious plague, from an award-winning Canadian playwright.

Consensual

Consensual

By Evan Placey

An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you.

Consent

Consent

By Nina Raine

A powerful, painful, funny play about the meaning of justice and consent when two friends take opposing briefs in a rape case.

The Container

The Container

By Clare Bayley

A harrowing, intense drama about people-trafficking, set inside a container lorry.

Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

By Travis Alabanza, Firdos Ali, Natasha Gordon, debbie tucker green, Arinzé Kene and Chinonyerem Odimba Selected by Natalie Ibu

An anthology of six brilliant plays, celebrating a multiplicity of stories authored by Black playwrights in the UK over the last decade. Selected and introduced by leading theatre director Natalie Ibu.

Continental Divide: two plays

Continental Divide: two plays

By David Edgar

In this two-play cycle set against the background of a bitterly fought American governor's election, David Edgar explores what has happened to the revolutionary fervour which took hold of both the Right and the Left in the 1960s, and how it has been carried over into the politics of today.

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The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. Original 2009 edition.

The Convict's Opera

The Convict's Opera

By Stephen Jeffreys

The world's first ever musical, The Beggar's Opera, is performed on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.

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Coolatully

Coolatully

By Fiona Doyle

Lyrical and urgent, Fiona Doyle's play Coolatully is a compassionate insight into the links between the economy, masculinity and society in the modern world. Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize.

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Cootie Shots

Cootie Shots

Edited by Norma Bowles and Mark E. Rosenthal

A unique assortment of plays, songs and poems for primary school children to read and perform - an ideal resource for teachers and schools looking for creative ways to explore contemporary moral and ethical issues in a fun and stimulating way.

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Coram Boy

Coram Boy (stage version)

By Jamila Gavin Adapted by Helen Edmundson

A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread award-winning novel set in 18th-century England.

The Cord

The Cord

By Bijan Sheibani

An honest and moving play about the challenging truths of family dynamics, focussing on a couple in the weeks after the birth of their child. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London.

Cornermen

Cornermen

By Oli Forsyth

An exhilarating play about human triumph, ambition, self-doubt, and pride, set in the world of boxing.

Corrina, Corrina

Corrina, Corrina

By Chloë Moss

A gripping theatrical thriller set at sea, exploring power dynamics, superstitions and revenge, and what happens when we think no one is watching.

Corsicana & Evanston Salt Costs Climbing: two plays

Corsicana & Evanston Salt Costs Climbing: two plays

By Will Arbery

Two plays by acclaimed American playwright Will Arbery, exploring communities of outsiders who strive to help one another in the face of despair.

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