Nick Hern Books

THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills If you're auditioning for a musical - or needing to choose a song to perform...

Northern Uganda. When Okumu's village is attacked by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), he and his brother's lives are changed forever.John Rwothomack's one-man play Far Gone is a profoundly moving...

An urgent and explosive new play that explores of the pressures on young people today in the wake of advancing technology. When a naked photograph of Scarlett goes viral, she becomes the centre of...

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out.Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is a tender and funny...

Medea and Jason, clinging together as refugees in Corinth, have struggled to bring up their beloved offspring in this alien and unsympathetic society. Now Jason has a plan to better integrate himself...

Formerly the enfant terrible of the British stage, Howard Brenton has recently returned to the theater with a number of successes, including Paul for the National Theatre and In Extremis for...

Laura has a secret. Joe's has been revealed. Peg's been keeping hers for years. Rich with the absurdities, hypocrisies and vulnerabilities that course through our lives, No Romance playfully observes...

The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer...

The wedding feast is over and the bridegroom's father is dancing the bhangra, but the groom himself is curiously reluctant to make his way to the bedroom. In fact, he's so woefully inhibited by the...

A topical satire on bankers and their dog-eat-dog lifestyle. This is what life was like in the big financial institutions before the ceiling fell in. Topical and fast-paced, Roaring Trade exposes...

When Josie dies in an old people's home, her grandchildren gather to share their memories of her, and her fellow residents feel the effects of her death as her funeral takes place. Is the gulf...

Two of London's biggest musical theater stars answer questions submitted by the public on a wide range of theatrical topics. Louise Dearman (Elphaba and Glinda in Wicked, London West End) and Mark...

Shorts (Edgar)Author: David EdgarPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublication Date: Jan 01, 1993Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1854590510ISBN-13: 9781854590510

Playwright and former literary manager Tim Fountain guides the budding playwright over the many hurdles involved in getting a play on stage--from finding a story that only you know, through the...

In Stacy, the sole protagonist finds life confusing in a world of unwritten rules. If there's no one around to tell him right from wrong, he just has to guess. But he's never been very lucky, and...

"The book all actors need--a vital manual to help you stay balanced in an increasingly demanding industry." --Miranda HartThe Jobbing Actor is an innovative six-week coaching programme designed by...

"A powerful show that brings the subject of war close to home."--The Scotsman"Lichtenstein's heartbreaking play looks with compassion at one facing the worst that life can throw at them...

In The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping, four young friends leave the city behind and head into the wilderness, but a burning secret threatens to tear their lives apart. A bittersweet comedy about life,...

In Tribes, Billy, who is deaf, is the only one who actually listens in his idiosyncratic, fiercely argumentative bohemian family. But when he meets Sylvia, who is going deaf, he decides he finally...