Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Dreams of Violence

Dreams of Violence

By Stella Feehily

A riotous comedy about love, death and responsibility.

Drinks Before Dinner

Drinks Before Dinner

By E.L. Doctorow

A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.

Drip

Drip

By Tom Wells By (composer) Matthew Robins

A one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.

Drip Feed

Drip Feed

By Karen Cogan

An infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.

Drip Feed & The Half Of It: Two Plays

Drip Feed & The Half Of It: Two Plays

By Karen Cogan

Two rich and startling monologues from award-winning actor and playwright Karen Cogan.

Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

By Alfred Uhry

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play which became the Oscar-winning film - a delicate depiction of racial tensions and of growing old.

Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?

Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?

By Caryl Churchill

A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam.

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The Drunks

The Drunks

By Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov Translated by Nina Raine

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

Dry Powder

Dry Powder

By Sarah Burgess

A razor-sharp comedy about the people who shape – and skew – the economy.

Dublin Carol

Dublin Carol

By Conor McPherson

A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.

Duck

Duck

By Stella Feehily

A sparky and moving first play about female friendship, set in contemporary Dublin. 

Duck Duck Goose

Duck Duck Goose

By Caitríona Daly

A viscerally charged play, full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media.

Duologue

Duologue

By Terence Rattigan

Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.

Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue
    Dusk Rings A Bell

    Dusk Rings A Bell

    By Stephen Belber

    A beautifully crafted play from the American playwright, author of Tape and associate writer of The Laramie Project, whose events are echoed in this play.

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    A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural

    A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural

    By Tony Kushner and Joachim Neugroschel

    The classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, and Joachim Neugroschel.

    ear for eye

    ear for eye

    By debbie tucker green

    Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.

    Earthquakes in London

    Earthquakes in London

    By Mike Bartlett

    An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.

    East Coast Chicken Supper

    East Coast Chicken Supper

    By Martin J. Taylor

    A scabrously funny look at 'young enterprise' in modern Scotland.

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