Nick Hern Books

Sleep Deprivation Chamber

By Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy

A gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience of twentieth-century America.

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A Fair Country

By Jon Robin Baitz

A play in the tradition of Arthur Miller: an impassioned exploration of the impact of politics on an American family.

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Mizlansky/Zilinsky

By Jon Robin Baitz

A play about the desperate cases lurking unsuccessfully on the fringes of the movie world.

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Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead

By Eric Bogosian

Bogosian's brashest solo show, once again aiming scorching social commentary at the contemporary urban and suburban scene.

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Getting Away With Murder

By Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

A compellingly original comedy thriller, and Sondheim's first ever non-musical play.

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Notes from Underground

By Eric Bogosian

Notes from Underground charts, in diary form, the life of an urban recluse who desperately wants to belong to society but instead inhabits a hell of his own creation.

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Insurrection: Holding History

By Robert O'Hara

An African-American graduate student is transported back through time, with his 189-year-old grandfather, to Nat Turner's infamous slave rebellion.

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Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays

Edited by Richard Nelson

Four lively dramas from the twenties and thirties evoking a world of gangsters, crooked cops, intrepid newpaper hacks and slightly tarnished damsels in distress.

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On New Ground

Contemporary Hispanic-American plays

Edited by M. Elizabeth Osborn

A collection of six plays by outstanding authors who write in English but draw from their various Hispanic backgrounds.

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Driving Miss Daisy

By Alfred Uhry

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play which became the Oscar-winning film - a delicate depiction of racial tensions and of growing old.

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Writing at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.

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Through the Leaves and other plays

By Franz Xaver Kroetz Translated by Roger Downey

Franz Xaver Kroetz is a controversial figure whose works have helped reshape world drama over the last two decades. His unsparing portraits of life in Germany's lower middle-class redefine the notion of realism on the stage.

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Peer Gynt

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Gerry Bamman and Irene B. Berman

By turns comic, tragic, lyrical and fantastic, the play is an allegory for the eponymous character's search for complete fulfilment, from the fjords of Norway to the deserts of Africa and back.

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The Rug Merchants of Chaos and other plays

By Ronald Ribman

Three astonishingly original, provocative, scathingly funny plays from the Obie award-winning American writer.

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Pride's Crossing

By Tina Howe

In Pride's Crossing, Tina Howe has created a remarkable heroine for the nineties: Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel.