Nick Hern Books

Dirty Story and other plays

By John Patrick Shanley

Three plays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Doubt.

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Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays

By Young Jean Lee

A collection of plays from the experimental writer-director Young Jean Lee.

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Boleros for the Disenchanted and other plays

By José Rivera

Four new plays that interweave love and politics, from the screenwriter of The Motorcycle Diaries.

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100 Monologues

By Eric Bogosian

A definitive collection of all of Eric Bogosian's monologues, originally performed as part of his six off-Broadway solo shows.

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Five plays by a major American playwright, all set in the author’s home state of Idaho, demonstrating his extraordinary knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives.

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The Kilroys List: Volume One

97 Monologues and Scenes by Female and Trans Playwrights

By The Kilroys

A collection of monologues and scenes from The Kilroys List, a vetted collection of plays written by female and trans writers, nominated by hundreds of professional artistic directors, literary managers, professors, producers, directors, and dramaturgs.

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The Detroit Project

By Dominique Morisseau

Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, making up a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit.

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Evening Plays

By Richard Maxwell

Three new dramas, written as a response to Dante's Divine Comedy.

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The Kilroys List: Volume Two

67 Monologues and Scenes by Women and Nonbinary Playwrights

By The Kilroys

A new collection of monologues or scenes from plays written by women, trans, and nonbinary writers, nominated by hundreds of professional artistic directors, literary managers, professors, directors, and dramaturgs.

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He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays

By Adrienne Kennedy

Adrienne Kennedy's acclaimed play about an interracial love affair in the 1940s, in a volume with two other plays: Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side and Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?

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Jack Thorne Plays: One

By Jack Thorne

The first collection of plays by one of the UK's most exciting young writers.

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Coming to Terms: American Plays & the Vietnam War

Edited by James Reston Jr.

An inspiring and often poignant collection of plays written in the era of the Vietnam War, from some of the most revered American playwrights, reflecting on the social and political ethos of a pivotal moment for America.

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Two for the Show

Scenes for student actors

Edited by Brian Kennedy

A fascinating collection of short scenes for two actors. Drawn from the work of Canada's premiere playwrights, the thirty-nine different scenes have been chosen by an experienced drama teacher, with easy directions and theatre terms explained.

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Out From Under

Texts by women performance artists

Edited by Lenora Champagne By various

A collection of provocative, ambitious texts by women performance artists.

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The Essential Bogosian

By Eric Bogosian

A collection of work by Eric Bogosian, one of America's leading performers and most original playwrights.

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Extreme Exposure

Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century

Edited by Jo Bonney

An anthology of excerpts from the works of more than fifty solo writer/performers including: Eric Bogosian, Laurie Anderson, Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman, Richard Pryor and Whoopi Goldberg.