Nick Hern Books

Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Ruined

Ruined

By Lynn Nottage

A passionate, heartfelt play about surviving in a time of civil war, by a leading American dramatist. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Plays from the Arab World

Plays from the Arab World

Edited by Elyse Dodgson

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa.

Me, As A Penguin

Me, As A Penguin

By Tom Wells

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

Holding the Man

Holding the Man (stage version)

By Tommy Murphy Original author Timothy Conigrave

The remarkable true-life love story, adapted from Timothy Conigrave's memoir of growing up gay in 1970s Melbourne.

Pieces

Pieces

By Hywel John

A modern fable of an idyllic childhood shattered by grief, and the confused, desperate and dangerous attempts we make to learn how to live again.

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About a Goth

About a Goth

By Tom Wells

A short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.

Published in volume Me, As A Penguin
    Notes for First Time Astronauts

    Notes for First Time Astronauts

    By Tom Wells

    A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.

    Published in volume Me, As A Penguin
      Love the Sinner

      Love the Sinner

      By Drew Pautz

      A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.

      Player's Angels

      Player's Angels

      By Amanda Whittington

      A play set in 1950s Nottingham, following a group of friends who work on the production line of the John Player tobacco factory.

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      The Late Middle Classes

      The Late Middle Classes

      By Simon Gray

      A funny yet melancholic look at the frustrations, secrets and guilt of middle-class respectability in 1950s England.

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      Any Given Day

      Any Given Day

      By Linda McLean

      A sharply perceptive, darkly funny riff on urban isolation by one of Scotland's leading playwrights.

      Women, Power and Politics: Then

      Women, Power and Politics: Then

      Four plays

      By various

      A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.

      Women, Power and Politics: Now

      Women, Power and Politics: Now

      Five plays

      By various

      A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.

      Lilies on the Land

      Lilies on the Land

      By the Lions part

      A revealing, funny and wonderfully moving portrait of four women who sign up to join the Women's Land Army during World War II.

      Through A Glass Darkly

      Through A Glass Darkly (stage version)

      By Ingmar Bergman Adapted by Jenny Worton

      A poignant and sensuous stage adaptation of the 1961 Oscar-winning film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.

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      Morte d'Arthur

      Morte d'Arthur (stage version)

      By Thomas Malory Adapted by Mike Poulton

      An adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of Sir Thomas Malory's classic telling of the Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

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      The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

      The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (stage version)

      By Robert Tressell Adapted by Howard Brenton

      Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators, vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.

      La Bête

      La Bête

      By David Hirson

      An exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art.

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