Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Chasing Hares

Chasing Hares

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A play about resistance and dignity in the face of global exploitation. Winner of Theatre Uncut's Political Playwriting Award.

Pennyroyal

Pennyroyal

By Lucy Roslyn

A heartrending play about sisterhood and motherhood; enduring love, and regrets many years in the making.

A-Typical Rainbow

A-Typical Rainbow

By JJ Green

An uplifting play about the experience of growing up neurodivergent and queer in early 2000s Britain, based on real events from the perspective of the writer and the autistic community.

The Anarchist

The Anarchist

By Karina Wiedman

A gripping, timely, and deeply moving play about protest, democracy and freedom. Winner of the Woven Voices Prize for migrant playwrights, 2022.

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.

The Climbers

The Climbers

By Carmen Nasr

A thrilling play about the lure of the mountains, the drive to conquer and the price of staying alive.

Rock / Paper / Scissors

Rock / Paper / Scissors

Three Plays

By Chris Bush

Three intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy, centring around a Sheffield manufacturing family.

Rapture

Rapture

By Lucy Kirkwood

A slippery thriller for the stage, about love, power and belief. In a modern world where reality is whatever we imagine it to be, how do we know the stories we tell ourselves are true?

Rock

Rock

By Chris Bush

A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.

Paper

Paper

By Chris Bush

A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.

Scissors

Scissors

By Chris Bush

A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.

The Southbury Child

The Southbury Child

By Stephen Beresford

A darkly comic play exploring family and community, the savage divisions of contemporary society and the rituals that punctuate our lives.

Jitney

Jitney

By August Wilson

A groundbreaking modern drama classic, exploring the fragile bond between eight men as they live, love and work in a racially segregated, post-Vietnam America.

Bangers

Bangers

By Danusia Samal

A gig-theatre play featuring original music inspired by early noughties and present-day R&B and Garage.

A Doll's House, Part 2

A Doll's House, Part 2

By Lucas Hnath

A funny, probing, and bold play that picks up where Ibsen's A Doll's House left off, and offers a sharp contemporary take on the struggles inherent in all human relationships across time.

Cancelling Socrates

Cancelling Socrates

By Howard Brenton

A provocative and witty play about an uncompromising voice in dangerous times.

No Particular Order

No Particular Order

By Joel Tan

A startling and apocalyptic play that charts the fate of a society under a despot, through the lives of bureaucrats, soldiers, ornithologists and tour guides.

Eurydice

Eurydice

By Sarah Ruhl

Alice in Wonderland meets Greek myth in this playful, heart-breaking American take on a timeless tale of loss, grief and redemption.

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Birds of a Kind

Birds of a Kind

By Wajdi Mouawad Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A sweeping drama about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which a straitlaced family is forced to confront everything they know about their identities.

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The Children's Republic

The Children's Republic

By Hannah Moscovitch

A powerful play about Dr Janusz Korczak and his struggle to protect the children at his orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto from the horrors of the Second World War.

Mortified

Mortified

By Amy Rutherford

A humorous and dark play exploring sex, shame, and transformation and how we reckon with the traumatic experiences that have shaped us.

Secret Life of a Mother

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch With Maev Beaty and Anne-Marie Kerr

An uplifting and empowering play that reveals the raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering.

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WROL (Without Rule of Law)

WROL (Without Rule of Law)

By Michaela Jeffery

A darkly comic coming-of-age drama from an exciting Canadian playwright.

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.