Books from Nick Hern Books
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Facing the Fear: An Actor's Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright
By Bella MerlinThe first book of its kind, designed to help performers overcome the crippling fear of stage fright.
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Nora - A Doll's House
By Stef SmithA bold new version of Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood.
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Three Kings
By Stephen BeresfordIt was written for Andrew Scott to perform as part of Old Vic: In Camera, a series of live performances streamed from the Old Vic Theatre, London, in 2020. This edition includes an introduction by the director Matthew Warchus.
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The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit
By Bella MerlinA practical, hands-on guide to Stanislavsky's famous 'system' and to his later rehearsal processes - for actors, directors, teachers and students. From the author of Beyond Stanislavsky.The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit...
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Someone Else's Shoes
By Drew Pautz"An artist sells her work but believes she still owns it. An advertising genius hunts for the next 'big idea'. A thief steals shoes and calls it activism...Jed just wants...
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The Golden Rules of Acting that Nobody Ever Tells You
By Andy NymanThe actor's best friend. A treasure trove of advice, support and encouragement that no performer should be without.
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God's Dice
By David BaddielNot least for her lecturer, Henry Brook, his marriage to celebrity atheist author Virginia - and his entire universe. God's Dice is an electric tragicomedy about the power of belief and our quest for truth in a fractured world.
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Women Centre Stage: Eight Short Plays by and about Women
By Winsome PinnockHow to Not Sink by Georgia Christou looks at duty, love and dependency across three generations of women. In Wilderness by April De Angelis, a patient and her psychiatrist head into the wilderness to find out how sane any of us really are.
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The Unreturning
By Anna JordanTheir stories, set at different times over a hundred years, are beautifully interwoven in Anna Jordan's The Unreturning, a play that explores the profound effect that war has on young people's lives, and asks - what does coming home really ...
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Far from the Madding Crowd: Adapted from Thomas Hardy's Novel
By Mark Healy"'I shall do one thing in this life. That is love you, long for you and keep wanting you...till I die.'" "Having inherited her father's farm, the spirited and feisty...
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So You Want to be a Theatre Director?
By Stephen UnwinA hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays--by one of Britain's leading theatre directors.
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Hundreds and Thousands
By Lou RamsdenExciting new work from the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright 2010 nominee.
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When They Go Low
By Natalie MitchellWritten specifically for young people, this play formed part of the 2018 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.
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Steel
By CHRIS. BUSHThis witty new play by Chris Bush (What We Wished For, A Dream) explores the last three decades of women in politics, asking what's changed and what still must.
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Hungry
By Chris BushA new play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savor.
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Strangers in Between
By Tommy MurphyAn unflinching and constantly surprising drama about how we make sense of who we are through our often fraught relations with others.
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Puppetry: How to Do It
By Mervyn Millar'This is a superb guide to puppet manipulation by one of the world's most experienced puppetry directors and teachers at a time when many actors are seeing puppetry as the twenty-first century's evocative and powerful new performance medium ...
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Grasses of a Thousand Colours
By Wallace Shawn"The scientist who tinkered with the universe tells us of his many loves. As his self-obsession literally consumes him, we listen to tales of food, sex and man's true best...
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Poor Beast in the Rain
By Billy RochePoor Beast in the Rain
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Ella Hickson, Plays: One
By Ella HicksonWhen her first play, Eight, transferred from student theatre in Edinburgh to the West End and then New York, Ella Hickson was still in her early twenties.