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Plays

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Testament

The dark underside of the Greatest Story Ever Told.

Save + Quit

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

Wretch

An ex-teacher and an ex-junkie meet on a night bus during long, dark nights of homelessness.

This Must Be the Place

A play comprising two short ballads about migration, missed connections, and life on the edge of respectability.

Maisie Says She Loves Me

A one-man play about love, inheritance and not letting your feelings show.

Out of Your Knowledge

A short play that explores our changing attitudes towards the landscape.

Why Can't We Live Together?

Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.

In a Vulnerable Place

A monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.

Dean McBride

A vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.

Woman Caught Unaware

A searing examination of the culture of body-shaming, exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media.

The Road to Huntsville

A short play about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line.

Closer to God

A short play exploring the private worlds of strangers, living side by side but generations apart.

Boys and Girls

A play in verse following four young people across one night in Dublin.

Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane

A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.

twins

A short play about twins whose lives diverge, first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.

Ivanov

Chekhov's compelling early play, set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

By D H Lawrence Introduction by Colin Counsell

An intense and powerful drama set in a Nottinghamshire mining town. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

An Enemy of the People

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Ibsen's play about an idealistic doctor whose moral resolve is put to the test when he discovers that the waters from which his native spa town draws its wealth are dangerously contaminated.

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