Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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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.

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
    Tilt

    Tilt

    By Ailis Ni Riain

    A sister searches her brothers for empathy and answers to her family's self destruction. All three are trapped for ever in an obsessive need to remember and relive their treatment at the hands of a sadistic, brutalising father and of a mother overendowed with forbearance.

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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
      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 Leaves and other plays

      Through the Leaves and other plays

      By Franz Xaver Kroetz Translated by Roger Downey

      Franz Xaver Kroetz is a controversial figure whose works have helped reshape world drama over the last two decades. His unsparing portraits of life in Germany's lower middle-class redefine the notion of realism on the stage.

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      Through A Glass Darkly (stage version)

      Through A Glass Darkly (stage version)

      By Ingmar Bergman Adapted by Jenny Worton

      Karin is a young wife, an older sister and an only daughter. In her kaleidoscopic internal world the boundaries between different realities blur and shift.

      Through a Cloud

      Through a Cloud

      By Jack Shepherd

      A battle of wits between Cromwell and John Milton, by the well-known actor Jack Shepherd.

      The Thrill of Love

      The Thrill of Love

      By Amanda Whittington

      A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

      Three Women and a Piano Tuner

      Three Women and a Piano Tuner

      By Helen Cooper

      An offbeat, lyrical drama about how our hopes and dreams can be thwarted by the choices we make - and by the ones we don't make.

      Three Sisters On Hope Street

      Three Sisters On Hope Street

      By Diane Samuels and Tracy-Ann Oberman

      A funny, vibrant and moving version of Chekhov's Three Sisters, set amongst the Jewish community in wartime Liverpool.

      Three Short Plays

      Three Short Plays

      By Caryl Churchill

      Three short plays by one of the most inventive dramatists working today, each written in response to political events.

      The Three Musketeers (stage version)

      The Three Musketeers (stage version)

      By John Nicholson and Le Navet Bete

      A riotously comic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, originally performed by physical-comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete.

      Three More Sleepless Nights

      Three More Sleepless Nights

      By Caryl Churchill

      An explosive short play about human interaction and love-tangled relationships.

      Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
        The Three Lions

        The Three Lions

        By William Gaminara

        A sharp, hilarious behind-the-scenes glimpse of diplomacy in action, centering on England's bid for the 2018 World Cup.

        Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

        Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

        By Jon Robin Baitz

        ‘A work of burning anger and bruising emotional power’ about the foisting of powdered milk on Third World infants. Plus seven monologues.

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        Three Birds

        Three Birds

        By Janice Okoh

        A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize 2011.

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