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The Servant of Two Masters

A classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Disco Pigs

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

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

    Harlequinade

    A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.

    Published in volume The Browning Version

      St Petersburg

      A haunting, elliptical play by a talented writer from Northern Ireland.

      Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays

        The Guid Sisters

        Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

          Your Turn to Clean the Stair

          A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.

            Stones in His Pockets

            Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.

              The Cavalcaders

              A rousing, comic play set in an old-fashioned cobbler's shop in small-town southern Ireland.

              Published in volume The Cavalcaders and Amphibians

                The House of Bernarda Alba

                Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.

                Mogadishu

                A gripping and urgent play about a well-meaning teacher who intervenes on behalf of a troublesome student, with terrifying consequences.

                Our New Girl & Little Dolls: two plays

                Two plays from one of Ireland's leading dramatists.

                trade

                A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.

                Published in volume trade & generations: two plays