Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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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.

Three

Three

By Stephen Laughton

A short play about three young Israelis caught up in a hostage situation.

Published in volume One Jewish Boy
    THREE

    THREE

    By Sophie Ellerby

    A funny, dark and thrilling play about family connections and the fallout from violence. In the Multiplay Drama series.

    Jack Thorne Plays: One

    Jack Thorne Plays: One

    By Jack Thorne

    The first collection of plays by one of the UK's most exciting young writers.

    Thon Man Molière

    Thon Man Molière

    By Liz Lochhead

    The story of the great comedian Molière - his scandalous marriage, his scurrilous plays and the irresistible creation of his infamous and celebrated satire Tartuffe.

    This Wide Night

    This Wide Night

    By Chloë Moss

    A tender portrayal of two women trying to start again after their release from prison.

    This Must Be the Place

    This Must Be the Place

    By Brad Birch and Kenny Emson

    A play comprising two short ballads about migration, missed connections, and life on the edge of respectability.

    This May Hurt A Bit

    This May Hurt A Bit

    By Stella Feehily

    A witty, tender, and occasionaly surreal exploration of one family's experience of the NHS.

    This Lime Tree Bower

    This Lime Tree Bower

    By Conor McPherson

    A poignant and gripping tale told through three interlinking monologues from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

    This is Living

    This is Living

    By Liam Borrett

    A poignant exploration of what it means to say goodbye.

    This is a Chair

    This is a Chair

    By Caryl Churchill

    A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.

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    This Changes Everything

    This Changes Everything

    By Joel Horwood

    A play about a group of young women seeking to form a new type of society and a better way of living. Part of Platform, a series of big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.

    This and Other Plays

    This and Other Plays

    By Melissa James Gibson

    The first collection from a major new voice in American theatre.

    Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (incl. Slavs!)

    Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (incl. Slavs!)

    By Tony Kushner

    A collection of essays, poems, a prayer and a play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.

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    Things I Know To Be True

    Things I Know To Be True

    By Andrew Bovell

    A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family – and a marriage – through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations.

    The Things Good Men Do

    The Things Good Men Do

    By Dan Muirden

    Good men behaving very badly in a dark comedy about twenty-somethings in London.

    The Thickness of Skin

    The Thickness of Skin

    By Clare McIntyre

    An intricate, tender play about the obligations we have to one another, and those we would rather not.

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    Thick As Thieves

    Thick As Thieves

    By Katherine Chandler

    A tense, revealing play that explores what it means to care for one another and asks who, in a time of increasing disconnect, we expect to look after us.

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