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The following titles published by Nick Hern Books are on stage in the UK or Ireland this month.
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The House Party

The House Party

By Laura Lomas Original author August Strindberg

A new spin on August Strindberg's classic play Miss Julie, premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2024 in a co-production between Chichester Festival Theatre, Headlong and Frantic Assembly.

The Hills of California

The Hills of California

By Jez Butterworth

The Webb Sisters are returning to their mother's run-down guest house in Blackpool, in a play by the author of Jerusalem and The Ferryman, premiered in the West End in 2024.

Fanny

Fanny

By Calum Finlay

A joyful and irreverent comedy about Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny, celebrating music, family and – at last – the work of a composer overlooked because of her sex.

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The Deep Blue Sea

The Deep Blue Sea

By Terence Rattigan

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.

The Cord

The Cord

By Bijan Sheibani

An honest and moving play about the challenging truths of family dynamics, focussing on a couple in the weeks after the birth of their child. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London.

Coram Boy

Coram Boy (stage version)

By Jamila Gavin Adapted by Helen Edmundson

A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread award-winning novel set in 18th-century England.

The Comeuppance

The Comeuppance

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

A bitingly comic, strikingly timely satire for the stage, which asks if we can ever break free from the people we used to be.

Circle Mirror Transformation

Circle Mirror Transformation

By Annie Baker

A quiet masterpiece tracing the lives of five strangers who come together in a community centre in Vermont, New England, for a series of creative drama classes for adults.

Published in volume The Vermont Plays
    The Bounds

    The Bounds

    By Stewart Pringle

    A darkly comedic tale of national divides, folk horror and the end of the world as we know it. Premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Royal Court Theatre, London.

    The Book of Grace

    The Book of Grace

    By Suzan-Lori Parks

    Suzan-Lori Parks' fierce and intimate three-person drama, a companion piece to her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog.

    2:22 – A Ghost Story

    2:22 – A Ghost Story

    By Danny Robins

    A spine-chilling, funny and scary play from the award-winning writer and broadcaster behind the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist.