Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Weather Girl

Weather Girl

By Brian Watkins

A blistering dark comedy about wrecking the places we love. Premiered at Summerhall during the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

We're Gonna Die

We're Gonna Die

By Young Jean Lee

A life-affirming, humorous show of songs and monologues drawing on real-life experiences, about the one thing we all have in common: we're gonna die. Audio CD included.

We Happy Few

We Happy Few

By Imogen Stubbs

A comedy drama about an all-female theatre company touring Britain during the darkest days of World War Two, written by the well-known actress and premiered in the West End.

We are Three Sisters

We are Three Sisters

By Blake Morrison

A thrillingly atmospheric historical drama for the stage, evoking the lives of the Brontë sisters, with a nod to Chekhov's Three Sisters.

We Anchor in Hope

We Anchor in Hope

By Anna Jordan

A play about the end of an era as a London boozer closes its doors one final time.

The Way We Live Now: American plays and the AIDS crisis

The Way We Live Now: American plays and the AIDS crisis

Edited by M. Elizabeth Osborn

A collection of dramatic material - plays, extracts from plays and dramatic adaptations - concerning the AIDS epidemic.

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The Way Old Friends Do

The Way Old Friends Do

By Ian Hallard

A tender, laugh-out-loud comedy about two friends who form the world's first ABBA tribute band in drag.

The Way Home

The Way Home

By Chloë Moss

A spiky play about the clash between suburban and itinerant ways of life in present-day Liverpool.

Steve Waters: Shorts

Steve Waters: Shorts

Five Plays

By Steve Waters

Five short plays from acclaimed playwright Steve Waters, all of them deeply personal accounts of his attempts to make sense of twenty-first-century Britain and an ever-changing world.

Water by the Spoonful

Water by the Spoonful

By Quiara Alegría Hudes

A Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, community and uncertainty.

The Wasp

The Wasp

By Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

A twisting two-hander, a psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Emilia.

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The Wardrobe

The Wardrobe

By Sam Holcroft

A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival.

War and Peace Gaza Piece

War and Peace Gaza Piece

By Caryl Churchill

A short play about war and family life.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
    War and Peace

    War and Peace (stage version)

    By Leo Tolstoy Adapted by Helen Edmundson

    A magnificent two-play epic, adapted from Tolstoy's novel and first staged by Shared Experience.

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    The Walworth Farce

    The Walworth Farce

    By Enda Walsh

    A remarkable play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives.

    Enda Walsh Plays: Two

    Enda Walsh Plays: Two

    By Enda Walsh

    The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, including The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, Penelope, Ballyturk and two short plays, with a Foreword by the author.

    Enda Walsh Plays: One

    Enda Walsh Plays: One

    By Enda Walsh

    The first eight astonishing plays by 'one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre'.

    Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

    Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

    By Eric Bogosian

    A monologue by a master of the art - 100% pure high octane Bogosian.

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    Waiting Room Germany

    Waiting Room Germany

    By Klaus Pohl Translated by David Tushingham

    A raw and honest verbatim-theatre play about post-reunification Germany, commissioned in 1994 by Der Spiegel to test the mood of the new Germany.

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    The Waiting List

    The Waiting List

    By Owen McCafferty

    A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

    Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays
      VS09

      VS09

      By Hayley Squires

      A sharp, fast-paced exploration of the possibilities of love, friendship and healing in the search for home. In the Multiplay Drama series.

      Voices from Ukraine: Two Plays

      Voices from Ukraine: Two Plays

      By Neda Nezhdana and Natal'ya Vorozhbit

      Two powerful plays about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by two of Ukraine's leading playwrights.

      The Visitor

      The Visitor

      By Iain Crichton Smith

      A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.

      Published in volume Family: three plays
        The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call

        The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call

        By Friedrich Dürrenmatt Adapted by Tony Kushner

        Dürrenmatt's visionary revenge play, one of the great achievements of modern German-language theatre, transported to mid-twentieth-century America by the acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner.