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Nick Hern Books Modern Plays

The Nick Hern Books Modern Plays collection includes over 875 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, as well as exciting new voices. It offers a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres.

Phoebe Waller Bridge sits on a rooftop in a blue puffer jacket on the front cover of Fleabag

A man talks to a group of young girls on the front cover of The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth

Heads of two men laying next to the other on the cover of The P Word

The cover of Blue Mist features three men embracing each other facing the camera

Cover of Backstairs Billy features a man and woman dressed up and holding a corgi and flowers respectively

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

Exciting recent additions include:

The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth: winner of the Olivier, Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, and Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best New Play, seen at the Royal Court, London’s West End, and on Broadway
Girl from the North Country by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan: as seen at the Old Vic Theatre and in London’s West End
Battlefield by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne: a return to their acclaimed adaptation of great Indian epic The Mahabharata, and seen on an international tour

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:

Exciting recent additions include:

Other highlights:

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