Books from Nick Hern Books
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Advice from the Players
By Laura BarnettAmazingly frank and hugely informative, Advice from the Players brings together a host of the UK's leading stars of stage and screen, offering tips and advice learned from their years of experience working in the performing arts.
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Run
By Stephen LaughtonStephen Laughton's one-man play about a gay Jewish seventeen-year-old explores what it means to love, to lose, and how to grow from a boy into a man.
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One Jewish Boy
By Stephen LaughtonWith the shadow of hatred festering at its core, One Jewish Boy is a bittersweet comedy fueled by rising anti-Semitism. It premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in 2018.
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Euripides' Medea: In a New Version
By Euripides, Tom PaulinBetrayed by a husband she sacrificed everything for, Medea unleashes a horrific vengeance on her enemies, by murdering her own children.
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The Motherhood Project: Monologues and Reflections on Motherhood
By E. V. CroweA new collection of monologues on motherhood by some of the UK's leading writers.
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Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives : [eight Monologues]
By Tanika Gupta, Theresa Ikoko, E. V. CroweSnatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives documents, remembers and bears witness to a century of struggle for progress and equality for women in the United Kingdom.
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Iranian Nights
By Howard Brenton, Tariq AliA protest, in the form of a drama, against the banning of Salman Rushdies' Satanic Verses.
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The Blinding Light
By Howard BrentonHoward Brenton's play The Blinding Light tells the astonishing story of August Strindberg's "Inferno" period.
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Eternal Love
By Howard BrentonA spellbinding new telling of a passionate and legendary love story, previously published and produced as In Extremis.
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Moscow Gold
By Howard Brenton, Tariq AliMoscow Gold
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Lawrence After Arabia
By Howard BrentonExplores the afterlife of a legend, when being a hero has become a burden.
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H.I.D: Hess is Dead
By Howard BrentonAn encounter with the ghosts that haunt modern Europe, the play investigates the contradictions surrounding the apparent suicide of Hilter's one-time deputy, Rudolf Hess.
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#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
By Howard Brenton, Weiwei AiA riveting political thriller based on the arrest and imprisonment of one of China's leading dissident artists.
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Jude
By Howard BrentonAbout to be fired from her cleaning job for stealing a volume of Euripides, Jude turns her employer's outrage to shock by translating the ancient Greek on the spot.
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In Skagway
By Karen ArdiffFor years, Frances Harmon has traded on her reputation as a star actress in the prospering American cities.
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Drip Feed and the Half of It: Two Plays by Karen Cogan
By Karen CoganTwo plays from the talented winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award.
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Playing Lear
By Oliver Ford DaviesTwo or three minutes of such business can take place between Gloucester's 'The king is coming' and Lear's first line. Jonathan is having none of this. I'm just going to walk on, followed by Albany and Cornwall. Everyone bows to me, ...
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Life is a Dream
By Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Helen EdmundsonIn this classic drama, a young prince is condemned for all eternity to be shut away from his country and his birthright lest the horrors prophesied for him come true.
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Class
By David Horan, Iseult GoldenAn explosive triple confrontation that is funny, heartbreaking and beautifully observed, Iseult Golden and David Horan's CLASS is an award-winning play about learning difficulties: in school, in life, wherever.
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Bunny
By Jack ThorneWon the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2010. An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.