Books from Nick Hern Books
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Hope
By Jack Thorne' How do you save twenty-two million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the Council, are about to find out.Hope is a scathing and funny fable from the writer behind This is England andSkins.
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Mydidae
By Jack ThorneAn unflinching examination of a young couple struggling to move on from the death of their infant daughter.
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Woyzeck
By Jack ThorneWritten shortly before Büchner's death in 1837 at the age of 23, Woyzeck is the acknowledged forerunner of most of modern drama and the first tragedy with a working-class protagonist.
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The End of History...
By Jack ThorneA new play from the writer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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My Life in Pieces: An Alternative Autobiography
By Simon CallowWinner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for theatre biography and Theatre book of the Year, 2010-The Times.
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Shooting the Actor, Or, The Choreography of Confusion
By Simon Callow, Dušan MakavejevShooting the Actor, Or, The Choreography of Confusion
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The Railway Children
By Edith Nesbit, Mike KennyPerfectly for schools, youth theatres and drama groups, and can be staged without real trains - just imagination and ingenuity.
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How to Be a Kid
By Sarah McDonald-HughesA touching and funny story of family, friends and fitting in, How To Be A Kid is ideal for seven- to eleven-year-olds to watch, read and perform.
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Henry V. EG: The Shakespeare Folios
By William ShakespeareAs the outstanding research of Charlton Hinman demonstrates, the volume was (rudimentarily) proof-read in two- page sections while they were being printed; these corrections were then incorporated on the galleys; but the uncorrected ...
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Henry IV, Part 1: The First Part of Henry the Fourth : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel...
By William ShakespeareSee Renate Woudhuysen-Keller, Sally Thirkettle, and Ian McClure, 'The Examination and Restoration of Henry, Prince of Wales on Horseback by Robert Peake', Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin 1 (1986), 15–22. 2.
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Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma
By Gustave Flaubert, Fay WeldonLength: 2 acts.
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Bright. Young. Things.: (platform Play)
By GEORGIA. CHRISTOUWho will win and who will lose - and what exactly does winning mean anyway? Georgia Christou's Bright. Young. Things. is a funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are.
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All the Little Lights
By Jane UptonAll the Little Lights was joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.
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Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life
By Richard PilbrowThe definitive text for today's and tomorrow's lighting designers, covering the complete history, theory and practice of lighting design.
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Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus
By Marina Caldarone, Maggie Lloyd-Williams'If you want to act, or act better, Actions will take you a long way on the journey to excellence' Terry Johnson
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My Name is Rachel Corrie: Taken from the Writings of Rachel Corrie
By Rachel CorrieThe moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist, adapted from her own writings.
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So You Want to be a Playwright?: How to Write a Play and Get it Produced
By Tim FountainGraham in A Chip in the Sugar is an unmarried middle-aged man living with his mother, telling his audience the story of her failed affair with a charlatan. We are constantly aware that she was duped, that the central character suspected ...
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Commedia Plays: Scenarios, Scripts, Lazzi
By Barry GranthamA "took-kit" to construct your own Commedia entertainment.
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100 Great Plays for Women
By Lucy KerbelThis important, landmark survey dispels the myth that "there aren't any good plays for women."
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Tiger Country
By Nina RaineDecember, the busiest time of year for London's hospitals.