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Winner, 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. In an ivy-clad house in Zagreb, Croatia, the Kos family argue and fall in and out...

Part of the Royal Court's ground-breaking international season, these plays are a unique double-bill of new Brazilian plays in English translation. Both plays are avowedly influenced by Harold...

An explosive and disturbing play about the phenomenon of False Memory Syndrome by an acclaimed Scottish playwright.Author: Mike CullenPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of...

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...

The Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed family-friendly Christmas show.Author: Laurence BoswellPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublication Date: Apr 01, 2005Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A chance encounter at an AA meeting and they're drawn to one another. Then later, once they're drinking again, they both have this almost-feeling that they might have met before - could even have...

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.Using flashbacks and the rich poetic language for which she has become admired, Lochhead weaves a spider's web of...

Polly Teale's tantalizing glimpse into the lives of Yorkshire's most famous daughters beautifully evokes their real and imagined world as their fictional characters come to haunt their creators...

A bitingly witty play about the loyalty and trust a couple must give each other.Author: Simon BlockPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback...

A new text on immersive theater.Author: Jason WarrenPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublication Date: Oct 10, 2017Number of Pages: 244 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1848424450ISBN-13:...

A collection of plays from award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director debbie tucker green.Author: Debbie Tucker GreenPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublication Date: Apr 02, 2019Number of Pages:...

160 all-new games and exercises from the author of the bestselling companion for drama teachers and workshop leaders, offering more than one million unique and tasty combinations, ready to be put...

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...

When a group of young men arrives at Professor Maingot's French school for the summer to cram for the Diplomatic exam, they find their concentration disrupted by the beautiful Diana Lake. Quelle...

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...

A new collection from one of the UK's most successful playwrights working with young people on the issues and ideas that are important to them and shape their lives.Author: Evan PlaceyPublisher: Nick...

An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit. A nursing-home conservatory. Sean sits alone, abandoned to his memories. In storms Patricia, a...

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...

Reissue of Lochhead's most popular play, revised and with new introduction. Much used by schools.Author: Liz LochheadPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublication Date: Apr 01, 2010Number of Pages: 96...

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...

One of Scotland's most popular writers, the multi-award-winning Liz Lochhead, takes on Moli?re's most famous play. Le Misanthrope is a bitter comedy about a sophisticated Parisian who cannot help...

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 dark and disturbing play by an up-and-coming Scots writer about violence within the family.Author: Linda McLeanPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublication Date: Apr 01, 2000Number of Pages: 96...

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