Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Touched

Touched

By Stephen Lowe

A revered modern classic about life in a working-class suburb of Nottingham in the closing days of World War II.

Touch

Touch

By Vicky Jones

A shamelessly funny and brutally honest play about sex, connection and control.

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Topdog/Underdog

Topdog/Underdog

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Too Much World at Once

Too Much World at Once

By Billie Collins

An urgent coming-of-age story for our times, a lyrical, theatrical journey that spans continents and lives.

Tomcat

Tomcat

By James Rushbrooke

Winner of the 2015 Papatango New Writing Prize, Tomcat is a play set in a future world where diseases and disorders have been wiped out. How far will we go to keep humanity healthy?

Today

Today

By Robert Holman

From a Cambridge college to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self in the midst of a shifting, uncertain world.

To Sir, With Love

To Sir, With Love (stage version)

By E. R. Braithwaite Adapted by Ayub Khan Din

An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain. 

Tituba

Tituba

By Winsome Pinnock

Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.

Tinderbox

Tinderbox

By Lucy Kirkwood

A fast, wild and farcically funny play with a disturbing vision of a dystopian future.

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A Time to Reap

A Time to Reap

By Anna Wakulik Translated by Catherine Grosvenor

A play that follows one woman from a Polish village to the bright lights of London, exploring the issue of abortion and the Catholic Church.

A Time to Keep

A Time to Keep

By Stephanie Dale and David Edgar

A large-scale historical romp in the terrain between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

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Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still

By Donald Margulies

A photojournalist is at home in Brooklyn recovering from serious wounds sustained whilst out covering war-torn Iraq, but longs for the adrenalin rush of her past.

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Time Spent on Trains

Time Spent on Trains

By Elizabeth Kuti

A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.

Published in volume Fishskin Trousers
    The Time Machine: A Comedy

    The Time Machine: A Comedy

    By Steven Canny and John Nicholson

    A fast-paced, wise-cracking, riotous play, loosely based on H.G. Wells's masterpiece, that zips from the nineteenth century to the end of the world, and (with any luck) back again.

    Tilt

    Tilt

    By Ailis Ni Riain

    A beautifully simple debut play, about a woman's search for answers to her family's self destruction.

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    Till the Stars Come Down

    Till the Stars Come Down

    By Beth Steel

    A heartbreaking and hilarious portrayal of a larger-than-life family struggling to come to terms with a changing world.

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    Tiger Country

    Tiger Country

    By Nina Raine

    A hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.

    Tickets are Now On Sale

    Tickets are Now On Sale

    By Caryl Churchill

    A short play about sponsorship and the arts.

    Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
      Thunderbox

      Thunderbox

      By Genevieve Barr

      A short monologue play about a pregnant wheelchair user facing a tough decision, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

      Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
        Thrown

        Thrown

        By Nat McCleary

        A poignant, dynamic play exploring belonging and identity, premiered by the National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Festival.

        Thrown

        Thrown

        By Jodi Gray

        A child-psychologist attempts to record what she's spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.

        Through the Mud

        Through the Mud

        By Apphia Campbell

        The story of two generations of women activists in the struggle for Black liberation in America. From the Fringe First-winning creator of the hit show Black is the Color of My Voice.

        Through the Leaves and other plays

        Through the Leaves and other plays

        By Franz Xaver Kroetz Translated by Roger Downey

        Three plays from the controversial German playwright whose works have helped reshape world drama.

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        Through A Glass Darkly

        Through A Glass Darkly (stage version)

        By Ingmar Bergman Adapted by Jenny Worton

        A poignant and sensuous stage adaptation of the 1961 Oscar-winning film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.

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