Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Unravelling the Ribbon

Unravelling the Ribbon

By Mary Kelly and Maureen White

A touching and frequently hilarious play about three women whose lives are touched by breast cancer.

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The Unravelling

The Unravelling

By Fin Kennedy

A Fringe First Award-winning fable about the power of mythology to change your life.

The Unmanageable Sisters

The Unmanageable Sisters

By Michel Tremblay Adapted by Deirdre Kinahan

A funny and furious new version of Michel Tremblay’s fêted Québécoise comedy, Les Belles-Soeurs.

Unknown Rivers

Unknown Rivers

By Chinonyerem Odimba

A poignant and life-affirming play about the extraordinary powers of female friendship.

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Unicorn

Unicorn

By Mike Bartlett

An explicit, funny and provocative play about a married couple looking to add sparkle to their relationship. Premiered in London's West End in 2025.

Unholy

Unholy

By Diane Flacks

A play about the intersetion of faith and misogyny, asking if you can be a feminist as well as a believer.

The Unfriend

The Unfriend

By Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat's hilarious satirical play about middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice.

Undesirable Elements

Undesirable Elements

Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater

By Ping Chong

A collection celebrating twenty years of Undesirable Elements, the series of community-specific theatre works that examines the lives of people living cultures, either by choice or circumstance.

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Under the Blue Sky

Under the Blue Sky

By David Eldridge

A triptych of love stories in a play about unrequited affection, obsession, sex, and the possibility of being happy.

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Unbroken

Unbroken

By Alexandra Wood

A radical, modern-day re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler’s taboo-breaking 1897 play La Ronde, with its 'daisy chain' of sexual encounters.

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Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater

Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater

By Richard Foreman

Includes essays and playscripts: The Cure, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, Symphony of Rats, What Did He See? and Lava, with a Foreword by Peter Sellars

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Ugly Lies the Bone

Ugly Lies the Bone

By Lindsey Ferrentino

An honest and funny play about a wounded veteran seeking rehabilitation through an experimental virtual reality therapy, from an award-winning American playwright.

The Tyler Sisters

The Tyler Sisters

By Alexandra Wood

A funny, heartening exploration of time, and the unassuming moments that make up our lives.

Two Trains Running

Two Trains Running

By August Wilson

A play set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969. Part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

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Two Sisters and a Piano and other plays

Two Sisters and a Piano and other plays

By Nilo Cruz

Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban-American playwright in the US and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize.

Two Princes

Two Princes

By Meredydd Barker

A bittersweet drama about life, love, loss, and sculpture.

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two Palestinians go dogging

two Palestinians go dogging

By Sami Ibrahim

A comedy that explores how the everyday becomes political and the political becomes everyday in a conflict zone.

Two Ladies

Two Ladies

By Nancy Harris

A powerful drama about the first ladies of France and America, as their husbands clash over an international crisis.

Two for the Show

Two for the Show

Scenes for student actors

Edited by Brian Kennedy

A fascinating collection of short scenes for two actors. Drawn from the work of Canada's premiere playwrights, the thirty-nine different scenes have been chosen by an experienced drama teacher, with easy directions and theatre terms explained.

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A short play about the unfairness of growing up in a world where you don't make the rules. First performed as part of Inside/Outside, a season of short plays staged at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.

Published in volume Inside/Outside
    Two Billion Beats

    Two Billion Beats

    By Sonali Bhattacharyya

    An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.

    twins

    twins

    By James Fritz

    A short play about twins whose lives diverge, first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.

    Twilight Song

    Twilight Song

    By Kevin Elyot

    Kevin Elyot's evocative final play, a hilarious and heartbreaking tale of one family's hidden liaisons over half a century.

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    The Turn of the Screw (stage version)

    The Turn of the Screw (stage version)

    By Henry James Adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

    A chilling adaptation of Henry James's classic ghost story.

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