Nick Hern Books

NHB Modern Plays

The NHB Modern Plays series features the pick of modern and contemporary plays from leading UK and international playwrights. Championing quality, accessibility and diversity, it takes the best writing for the stage and gives it enduring life on the page.

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Saturday at the Commodore

Saturday at the Commodore

By Rona Munro

A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.

Published in volume Scot-Free
    SAUCE

    SAUCE

    By Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

    A play about death and rebirth, from an award-winning Irish playwright.

    Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays
      SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays

      SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays

      By Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

      Two sweet and saucy comedies from an award-winning Irish playwright.

      Save + Quit

      Save + Quit

      By Sophia Chetin-Leuner

      The stories of four young people in London and Dublin and how they attempt to live in the cities they call home.

      The Saviour

      The Saviour

      By Deirdre Kinahan

      A play charting the extraordinary shift in social, political and religious life in Ireland over the past thirty years.

      Saying Yes

      Saying Yes

      By Griselda Gambaro Translated by Sebastian Doggart

      A short play by a leading Argentine playwright, telling the shocking story of an everyday trip to the hairdressers.

      Scandaltown

      Scandaltown

      By Mike Bartlett

      A comedy for the new Restoration of the theatres, set in contemporary, post-pandemic London, full of illicit sex, political hypocrisy and the machinations of a fame-hungry elite.

      Scarborough

      Scarborough

      By Fiona Evans

      An electrifying portrayal of a dangerously charged romance between a fifteen-year-old and their teacher.

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      Scenes from a Repatriation

      Scenes from a Repatriation

      By Joel Tan

      A daring, shape-shifting play about the controversy around a statue in the British Museum, questioning who can claim cultural artefacts – and why. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2025.

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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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      Schreber's Nervous Illness

      Schreber's Nervous Illness

      By Caryl Churchill

      A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.

      Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
        The Schuman Plan

        The Schuman Plan

        By Tim Luscombe

        The story of post-war Britain and its love-hate relationship with Europe, recounted as a thrilling, fast-moving epic of machiavellian politics and private heartbreak.

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        Scissors

        Scissors

        By Chris Bush

        A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.

        Scorch

        Scorch

        By Stacey Gregg

        A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'.

        The Scorched Garden

        The Scorched Garden

        By Juan Mayorga Translated by Nick Darke

        A play about a group of inmates who have been locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War.

        Scot-Free

        Scot-Free

        New Scottish Plays

        Edited by Alasdair Cameron

        A collection of seven plays from Scottish writers, reflecting the upsurge in Scottish playwriting in the late twentieth century.

        Scotland Plays

        Scotland Plays

        New Scottish Drama

        Edited by Philip Howard

        A collection of seven plays by Scottish writers, selected and introduced by Philip Howard, artistic director of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.

        Scottish Shorts

        Scottish Shorts

        Edited by Philip Howard

        A collection of nine very different short plays by three remarkable generations of Scottish writers, ideal performance in studio theatres and at festivals.

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        Screwed

        Screwed

        By Kathryn O'Reilly

        A gripping dramatic portrait of a destructive friendship between two women who push themselves to their limits.

        Scuttlers

        Scuttlers

        By Rona Munro

        A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

        Sea Creatures

        Sea Creatures

        By Cordelia Lynn

        A haunting play about grief, loss and the power of storytelling.

        Sea Things

        Sea Things

        By Hassan Abdulrazzak

        A bold and startling comic thriller about climate crisis, conspiracy, and what lurks beneath the waves. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people.

        The Seafarer

        The Seafarer

        By Conor McPherson

        A breathtaking supernatural play from the author of The Weir.

        The Seagull

        The Seagull

        By Anton Chekhov Adapted by Duncan Macmillan and Thomas Ostermeier

        A refreshing, revitalised adaptation of Chekhov's timeless play about vanity, power and sacrifices made in the name of art. Premiered at the Barbican Theatre, London, in 2025, with an ensemble cast including Cate Blanchett.