Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Fragile!

Fragile!

By Tena Štivičić

A darkly humorous play about the people behind the tabloid stories of migrant workers and sex-trafficking in today's Europe.

Frankenstein

Frankenstein (stage version)

By Mary Shelley Adapted by Patrick Sandford

One of the greatest horror stories of all time, in a stage adaptation that sticks closely to Mary Shelley's original novel.

Freak

Freak

By Anna Jordan

A punchy and provocative new play by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen.

Fred & Madge

Fred & Madge

By Joe Orton

Joe Orton's brilliantly inventive and staggeringly bold first play.

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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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James Fritz Plays: One

James Fritz Plays: One

By James Fritz

Six plays from a unique voice in British theatre, covering the first decade of his career. These plays confront the fault lines in our culture with thrilling imagination, an unflinching moral seriousness and a warm, compassionate sense of humour.

From Both Hips

From Both Hips

By Mark O'Rowe

A gripping drama about revenge and absolution, from the award-winning author of Howie the Rookie.

Fucking Feminists

Fucking Feminists

By Rose Lewenstein

A fiercely funny short play by Rose Lewenstein, investigating what feminism means, and what it has become.

Fugue

Fugue

By Rona Munro

A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.

Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
    Full Moon and other plays

    Full Moon and other plays

    By Reynolds Price

    Three plays delicately exploring issues of love, faith, family and race.

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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.

    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    By Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart

    A bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre.

    Fury

    Fury

    By Phoebe Eclair-Powell

    A chilling and powerful modern Medea about motherhood and class.

    Futureproof

    Futureproof

    By Lynda Radley

    A magical and deeply compassionate play about identity and the capacities of the human spirit.

    The Gabriels

    The Gabriels

    Election Year in the Life of One Family

    By Richard Nelson

    A trilogy of plays following an American family through the momentous and divisive 2016 presidential election year.

    Game

    Game

    By Mike Bartlett

    A provocative play that invites us to spy on a family as they embark on a dangerous new way to live.

    Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

    Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

    By Taylor Mac

    Performance artist Taylor Mac picks up where William Shakespeare's blood-soaked tragedy Titus Andronicus left off in a play that explores generic boundaries and charts the violence done by those in charge, and the lives of those left to clean up.

    The Gatekeeper

    The Gatekeeper

    By Chloë Moss

    A darkly comic play about the disintegration of a family get-together.

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    The Gathered Leaves

    The Gathered Leaves

    By Andrew Keatley

    A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997.

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    The Gay Heritage Project

    The Gay Heritage Project

    By Damian Atkins, Paul Dunn and Andrew Kushnir

    An important piece of contemporary queer theatre, from three of Canada's most gifted performers.

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    Gem of the Ocean

    Gem of the Ocean

    By August Wilson

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1904. Aunt Esther, the 285-year-old fiery matriarch of 1839 Wylie Avenue, sets Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama, on a soaring, lyrical journey of spiritual awakening.

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    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
      Genesis Inc.

      Genesis Inc.

      By Jemma Kennedy

      An explosively funny comedy that takes a closer look at the lengths to which people will go to defy biology – and at the moral compass of an industry that trades on fear and hope.

      Germ Free Adolescent

      Germ Free Adolescent

      By Natalie Mitchell

      A fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway?