Nick Hern Books
Showing 145-168 of 724 items.
Dark Sublime

Dark Sublime

By Michael Dennis

A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams – a love-letter to British sci-fi television.

Daughterhood

Daughterhood

By Charley Miles

A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them.

The Day I Stood Still

The Day I Stood Still

By Kevin Elyot

A poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg, about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories.

  • Paperback£8.99 £7.19
    There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
  • Ebook£8.99 £7.19
    Add to basket
Dealing with Clair

Dealing with Clair

By Martin Crimp

A satire on yuppie moral and emotional bankruptcy and a bleak, black comedy thriller.

Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays

Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays

By Tony Kushner

A wide-ranging collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.

  • Paperback£19.99
    There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden

By Ariel Dorfman

A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.

Death of Long Pig

Death of Long Pig

By Nigel Planer

Two great artists - Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin - confront their own mortality in the strange and supernatural Polynesian islands they made their home.

Decade

Decade

Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.

By Various

Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.

Deluge

Deluge

By Fiona Doyle

A deeply provocative thriller set in a blighted landscape where nature is fiercely taking its course, Deluge is a gripping drama from the Papatango Prize-winning author of Coolatully.

Deposit

Deposit

By Matt Hartley

A bittersweet and vital play that throws a spotlight on 'Generation Rent' and the lengths they will go to in order to get that first step on the property ladder.

Desire Under the Elms

Desire Under the Elms

By Eugene O'Neill

A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
    Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency

    Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency

    By Nathan Bryon

    A madcap adventure story for young people (and older detectives) to watch, read and perform.

    Di and Viv and Rose

    Di and Viv and Rose

    By Amelia Bullmore

    A warm and funny play about female friendship, crackling with wit and poignant observation.

    • Paperback£10.99
      There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
    Diary of a Nobody

    Diary of a Nobody (stage version)

    By George & Weedon Grossmith Adapted by Hugh Osborne

    A sparkling adaptation of the classic comic novel recording the daily exploits of Charles Pooter, the London clerk with social aspirations far beyond his status.

    Ding Dong the Wicked

    Ding Dong the Wicked

    By Caryl Churchill

    A short play by one of the UK's leading dramatists.

    A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war.

    dirty butterfly

    dirty butterfly

    By debbie tucker green

    A mesmerising and startling play about voyeurism, power and guilt.

    Disconnect

    Disconnect

    By Anupama Chandrasekhar

    An urgent exposé of the realities behind the international call centre.

    • Paperback£12.99 £10.39
      There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
    • Ebook£12.99 £10.39
      Add to basket
    Distant Early Warning

    Distant Early Warning

    By Tatty Hennessy

    A short play set in 2053 in what was once Greenland.

    Published in volume A Hundred Words for Snow
      Distracted

      Distracted

      By Morna Pearson

      A darkly surreal and richly comic short play about a deeply unusual mother and son relationship.

      Dixon and Daughters

      Dixon and Daughters

      By Deborah Bruce

      A powerful play about family and forgiveness, following a woman after her release from prison. Premiered at the National Theatre.

      Dizzy

      Dizzy

      By Mohamed-Zain Dada

      A fantastical, theatrical adventure through the underground world of street art and the hidden patterns in our universe. Premiered on UK tour by Theatre Centre and Sheffield Theatres in 2024.

      A Doll's House

      A Doll's House (Sheffield Theatres version)

      By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Chris Bush

      A taut and gripping adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's powerful drama, premiered at the Crucible, Sheffield Theatres, in 2024.

      Dora: A Case of Hysteria

      Dora: A Case of Hysteria

      By Kim Morrissey

      A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.

      • Paperback£8.99 £7.19
        There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
      Dorian

      Dorian

      By Phoebe Eclair-Powell and Owen Horsley Original author Oscar Wilde

      A thrilling stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, following one man's descent from glorious debauchery to epic self-destruction.