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Nick Hern Books Modern Plays

Explore over 900 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, as well as exciting new voices. This collection offers a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres.

Front cover of Born with Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams

Cover of Shifters featuring two people looking closely at each other

The back of a young child is depicted on the front cover of a number by Caryl Churchill

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This collection features authors such as:

Mike Bartlett
Howard Brenton
Jez Butterworth
Caryl Churchill
Marcelo Dos Santos
David Edgar

Helen Edmundson
Vivienne Franzmann
debbie tucker green
Ella Hickson
Lucy Kirkwood
Liz Lochhead

Conor McPherson
Rona Munro
Iman Qureshi
Nina Raine
Jack Thorne
Enda Walsh

New additions include:

Inter Alia: Suzie Miller's follow-up to theatrical hit Prima Facie is "theatre's gut-wrenching spin on Adolescence" The Telegraph
1536: Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, this fiendishly smart and funny drama asks whether female solidarity can survive in a world where barbarism and misogyny are state sanctioned.
Born with Teeth: Liz Duffy Adams’s award-winning “whirling counter-history…spins the known facts of the relationship between Shakespeare and Marlowe into a fantasy of flirtation, spying, love and suspicion” WhatsOnStage.
The Brightening Air: Conor McPherson's rich, funny and haunting drama, set in a troubled family home in 1980s Ireland, won the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

Other highlights:

Caryl Churchill: Over 40 plays by one of our greatest living writers, which blend stunning formal innovation with a clear-eyed, unflinching look at the world around us - including Escaped Alone (2016), Far Away (2000), and A Number (2002)
Top contemporary Irish playwriting: Includes strikingly original works by Enda Walsh such as Disco Pigs, Misterman and Ballyturk, and uncanny, heartfelt plays by Conor McPherson (“quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation” New York Times) including The Weir, The Seafarer, and The Night Alive
The Terence Rattigan collection: 16 plays by one of the twentieth-century’s leading dramatists, including devastating masterpiece The Deep Blue Sea, legal and family drama The Winslow Boy, and one-act play The Browning Version, twice adapted for film
NHB Drama Classics: includes foreign works in translation from Nikolai Gogol, Alfred Jarry, Molière, and more

Nick Hern Books Modern Plays

This collection features authors such as:

New additions include:

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