Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Sea Creatures

Sea Creatures

By Cordelia Lynn

A haunting play about grief, loss and the power of storytelling.

Scuttlers

Scuttlers

By Rona Munro

A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

Screwed

Screwed

By Kathryn O'Reilly

A gripping dramatic portrait of a destructive friendship between two women who push themselves to their limits.

Scottish Shorts

Scottish Shorts

Edited by Philip Howard

A collection of nine very different short plays by three remarkable generations of Scottish writers, ideal performance in studio theatres and at festivals.

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Scotland Plays

Scotland Plays

New Scottish Drama

Edited by Philip Howard

A collection of seven plays by Scottish writers, selected and introduced by Philip Howard, artistic director of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.

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New Scottish Plays

Edited by Alasdair Cameron

A collection of seven plays from Scottish writers, reflecting the upsurge in Scottish playwriting in the late twentieth century.

The Scorched Garden

The Scorched Garden

By Juan Mayorga Translated by Nick Darke

A play about a group of inmates who have been locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War.

Scorched

Scorched

By Wajdi Mouawad Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A haunting, poetic play from one of Canada's leading playwrights, Scorched is a powerful investigation of trauma and family ties.

Scorch

Scorch

By Stacey Gregg

A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'.

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 Schuman Plan

The Schuman Plan

By Tim Luscombe

The story of post-war Britain and its love-hate relationship with Europe, recounted as a thrilling, fast-moving epic of machiavellian politics and private heartbreak.

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Schreber's Nervous Illness

Schreber's Nervous Illness

By Caryl Churchill

A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
    Scenes with girls

    Scenes with girls

    By Miriam Battye

    A witty and caustic play about female friendship, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2020.

    Scenes From the Big Picture

    Scenes From the Big Picture

    By Owen McCafferty

    An epic, masterful twenty-plus-character play about Belfast and its multitude of urban denizens.

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    Scarborough

    Scarborough

    By Fiona Evans

    An electrifying portrayal of a dangerously charged romance between a fifteen-year-old and their teacher.

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    Scandaltown

    Scandaltown

    By Mike Bartlett

    A comedy for the new Restoration of the theatres, set in contemporary, post-pandemic London, full of illicit sex, political hypocrisy and the machinations of a fame-hungry elite.

    Saying Yes

    Saying Yes

    By Griselda Gambaro Translated by Sebastian Doggart

    A short play by a leading Argentine playwright, telling the shocking story of an everyday trip to the hairdressers.

    The Saviour

    The Saviour

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    A play charting the extraordinary shift in social, political and religious life in Ireland over the past thirty years.

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