Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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The Humans

The Humans

By Stephen Karam

A powerful comedy-drama about a family gathering at Thanksgiving, from a gifted young American playwright.

Humpty Dumpty and other plays

Humpty Dumpty and other plays

By Eric Bogosian

Three plays from one of the most singular and exhilarating commentators on American life.

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A Hundred Words for Snow

A Hundred Words for Snow

By Tatty Hennessy

A play about a teenage girl's solo journey to the North Pole with her father's ashes.

Hundreds and Thousands

Hundreds and Thousands

By Lou Ramsden

A dark and twisted tale about deciding what's more important - doing what's right, or what's right for you.

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Hungry

Hungry

By Chris Bush

A play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.

I Am Shakespeare

I Am Shakespeare

By Mark Rylance

A fascinating, witty and characteristically exuberant dramatic exploration of the Shakespeare authorship debate.

I Caught Crabs in Walberswick

I Caught Crabs in Walberswick

By Joel Horwood

A fast-moving, exhilarating play about teenage hopes, dreams and frustrations in a rural part of England.

I Fucked You in My Spaceship

I Fucked You in My Spaceship

By Louis Emmitt-Stern

A razor-sharp sci-fi comedy-drama about sex and relationships, winner of the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work at VAULT Festival, London.

I Just Stopped By To See The Man

I Just Stopped By To See The Man

By Stephen Jeffreys

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

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I Think We Are Alone

I Think We Are Alone

By Sally Abbott

A delicate and uplifting play about fragility, resilience and our need for love and forgiveness.

I Wanna Be Yours

I Wanna Be Yours

By Zia Ahmed

A tender, funny, lyrical debut play about finding love and holding onto it with everything you've got, premiered by Paines Plough and Tamasha.

I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

By Owen McCafferty

An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.

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    I, Claudia

    I, Claudia

    By Kristen Thomson

    A touching and funny play about a girl on the cusp of adolescence.

    I, Daniel Blake

    I, Daniel Blake (stage version)

    By Dave Johns Original author Paul Laverty

    A touching and vital stage adaptation of the Palme d'Or-winning film directed by Ken Loach.

    I.D.

    I.D.

    By Antony Sher

    An enthralling drama about the man who killed Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of South African apartheid.

    Icecream

    Icecream

    By Caryl Churchill

    An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.

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    The Iceman Cometh

    The Iceman Cometh

    By Eugene O'Neill

    An ominous play set in a cruel world of dark realism, an acknowledged masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

    Idyll

    Idyll

    By Matt Hartley

    A captivating short play about rural Britain, premiered by Pentabus Theatre in 2021.

    If I Forget and Other Plays

    If I Forget and Other Plays

    By Steven Levenson

    Three extraordinary plays from the Tony Award-winning writer of Dear Evan Hansen: If I Forget, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin and The Language of Trees.

    If Only

    If Only

    By David Edgar

    A gripping, Coalition-set drama from one of the UK's top political playwrights.

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    Ignorance/Jahiliyyah

    Ignorance/Jahiliyyah

    By Steve Waters

    An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.

    Illyria

    Illyria

    By Richard Nelson

    It is 1958. In the midst of a building boom in New York City, Joe Papp and his colleagues are facing pressure from the city’s elite as they continue their free Shakespeare in Central Park.

    Image of an Unknown Young Woman

    Image of an Unknown Young Woman

    By Elinor Cook

    A startlingly theatrical look at what happens when a politically inflammatory video goes viral and it all kicks off.

    Immaculate

    Immaculate

    By Oliver Lansley

    A laugh-out-loud comic variation on the virgin birth.