TEMPORARY ORDER DELAYS

We’re currently experiencing temporary disruption to the availability of some titles as we move all of our books to a new warehouse, which means it may take longer than normal for your order to reach you. Click here for more information.

Top Titles
Below is a selection of our bestselling plays and theatre books.

See also:

Showing 1-12 of 48 items.

A Doll's House

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.

The Rover

A classic Restoration comedy by one of the earliest and most celebrated female playwrights. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

  • Paperback£4.99 £3.99
    There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
  • Ebook£4.99 £3.99

The Golden Rules of Acting

A treasure trove of advice, support and encouragement that no performer should be without. Honest, witty and direct, The Golden Rules of Acting is every actor's best friend – in handy paperback form.

Long Day's Journey into Night

A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

My Boy Jack

The tragic story of how Rudyard Kipling sent his son to his death in the First World War.

Far Away

A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists.

Kindertransport

A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past - brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise of a new life...

Jerusalem

Jez Butterworth's hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land.

Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops

101 great drama games for use in any classroom or workshop setting. Part of the Nick Hern Books Drama Games series.

Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus

A vital companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action-words to revitalise performance, with a foreword by Terry Johnson.

Death and the Maiden

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

Cloud Nine

A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.