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

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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.

Long Day's Journey into Night

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

Machinal

A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

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.

Death and the Maiden

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

East is East

A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

The Rover

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

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The Deep Blue Sea

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.

Finding Your Voice

A step-by-step guide for actors

A simple, step-by-step manual, written by an RSC voice coach, which offers everything that an actor needs to work on their voice.

Far Away

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

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.

Year of the King

A classic of theatre writing, a unique insight into the creation of a landmark Shakespearian performance.