Nick Hern Books | Modern drama (post-1945)

Getting Away With Murder

A compellingly original comedy thriller, and Sondheim's first ever non-musical play.

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Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this is the third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays,

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A collaborative piece written with David Lan, combining words and dance. Inspired by Euripides' Bacchae, the play explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves'.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

Anna Weiss

By Mike Cullen

An explosive, gripping and disturbing play about the phenomenon of False Memory Syndrome.

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Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

By Enda Walsh

The award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists - plus his short play, Sucking Dublin.

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Sucking Dublin

By Enda Walsh

A fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

Disco Pigs

By Enda Walsh

Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

Venus

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A bold exploration of colonisation and objectification, based on the true story of the 'Hottentot Venus'.

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Marisol and other plays

By José Rivera

A collection of plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, bearing his hallmark traits of magic realism and expressionism.

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Possible Worlds

By John Mighton

Two lovers experience a baffling series of relationships together, each one just slightly and tantalizingly different.

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The Mammary Plays

How I Learned to Drive & The Mineola Twins

By Paula Vogel

Two mirror-image investigations of coming of age in the sixties.

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The Mineola Twins

By Paula Vogel

An outrageously satirical play examining women's experience and the women's movement over more than three decades in post-World War II America.

Published in volume The Mammary Plays

The Day I Stood Still

By Kevin Elyot

A poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg, about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories.

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Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own

By Gary Mitchell

Two plays from playwright Gary Mitchell, known for his powerful explorations of the conflicts troubling Northern Ireland.

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Tearing the Loom

By Gary Mitchell

A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.

Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own

In a Little World of Our Own

By Gary Mitchell

A powerful drama about how the conflict in Northern Ireland affects whole families, and of how the violence of the streets is brought into the heart of the home.

Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own