Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Closer to God

Closer to God

By Anna Jordan

A short play exploring the private worlds of strangers, living side by side but generations apart.

Closing Time

Closing Time

By Owen McCafferty

McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.

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Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine

By Caryl Churchill

A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.

Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park

By Bruce Norris

An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property.

Coastal Disturbances: four plays

Coastal Disturbances: four plays

By Tina Howe

Four plays by Tina Howe: Coastal Disturbances, Museum, The Art of Dining and Painting Churches.

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Cock

Cock

By Mike Bartlett

A playful, candid look at one man’s sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realise you have a choice.

Cockroach

Cockroach

By Sam Holcroft

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.

Cold Comfort

Cold Comfort

By Owen McCafferty

A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

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    Cold Meat Party

    Cold Meat Party

    By Brad Fraser

    A play about a group of former friends reuniting in a B&B for a funeral.

    Collapsible

    Collapsible

    By Margaret Perry

    A funny, furious monologue about holding on in this collapsing world.

    The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume I

    The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume I

    By Thornton Wilder

    Thornton Wilder's short plays, published for the first time in two volumes.

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    The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume II

    The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder: Volume II

    By Thornton Wilder

    Thornton Wilder's short plays, published for the first time in two volumes.

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    Collected Stories

    Collected Stories

    By Donald Margulies

    A play exploring the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from another person's life.

    The Collector

    The Collector

    By Henry Naylor

    A compelling tale of murder, evil and betrayal set in occupied Iraq, part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.

    The Color of Desire & Hurricane: two plays

    The Color of Desire & Hurricane: two plays

    By Nilo Cruz

    Two plays by the acclaimed Cuban-American writer.

    Come On Over

    Come On Over

    By Conor McPherson

    A Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before.

    The Comeback

    The Comeback

    By Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen

    A heartwarming, joyful and dazzlingly funny exploration of bittersweet nostalgia and the enduring power of friendship.

    Coming Clean

    Coming Clean

    By Kevin Elyot

    Funny, fresh and packed with razor-sharp wit, Kevin Elyot’s landmark drama questions the nature of fidelity and the limits of love.

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