Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete stage version)

By Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson Original author Robert Louis Stevenson

A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.

Travesty

Travesty

By Liam Williams

The debut play by Liam Williams, double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee -  about gender and the ethical dimensions of modern love.

Travelling Light

Travelling Light

By Nicholas Wright

A funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age.

Traps

Traps

By Caryl Churchill

An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.

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trade & generations: two plays

trade & generations: two plays

By debbie tucker green

Two plays from the acclaimed playwright debbie tucker green.

trade

trade

By debbie tucker green

A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
    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.

    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.

    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.

    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
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