Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Shoot the Crow

Shoot the Crow

By Owen McCafferty

An endearing yet hard-hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living.

Far Away

Far Away

By Caryl Churchill

A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists.

dirty butterfly

dirty butterfly

By debbie tucker green

A mesmerising and startling play about voyeurism, power and guilt.

Honour

Honour

By Joanna Murray-Smith

An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter.

Black Milk

Black Milk

By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha Dugdale

A worm's eye view of post-Communist Russia.

Shining Souls

Shining Souls

By Chris Hannan

A riotously funny comedy with a gallery of unforgettable characters, published here in a revised version alongside its revival at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2003.

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100

100

By Christopher Heimann, Neil Monaghan and Diene Petterle

A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Winner of a Fringe First Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Terrorism

Terrorism

By The Presnyakov Brothers Translated by Sasha Dugdale

The extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia.

Got to be Happy

Got to be Happy

By Simon Burt

A poignant and tender-hearted play set in a pub kitchen.

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (RSC stage version)

By Laurence Boswell

A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed in this version by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Scenes From the Big Picture

Scenes From the Big Picture

By Owen McCafferty

An epic, masterful twenty-plus-character play about Belfast and its multitude of urban denizens.

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After Mrs Rochester

After Mrs Rochester

By Polly Teale

A dramatisation of the extraordinary life of Jean Rhys, in which themes of femininity, literature and hysteria and madness collide with vivid force.

born bad

born bad

By debbie tucker green

A hard-hitting and original family drama.

World Music

World Music

By Steve Waters

A subtle and topical play about European attitudes to Africa.

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The New American Musical

The New American Musical

An Anthology from the End of the 20th Century

Edited by Wiley Hausam

Four groundbreaking musicals from the end of the 20th century.

Gum

Gum

By Karen Hartman

Set in a fictional fundamentalist country where chewing gum is outlawed, Gum explores the human need to tame nature and control desire.

Holes in the Skin

Holes in the Skin

By Robert Holman

A gripping play about the nature of violence.

Protection

Protection

By Fin Kennedy

A tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and the people who have to pick up the pieces.

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