Nick Hern Books, 2024

NHB Collected Works

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (4), Female (4), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Chris Bush's play Not the End of the World is a daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism. It was first performed as Kein Weltuntergang, translated...">

...Chris Bush's play Not the End of the World is a daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism. It was first performed as Kein Weltuntergang, translated...

Nick Hern Books, 2023

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (87), Female (38), Male (43), Unassigned (6)

...Chris Bush's play A Dream, featuring original songs with lyrics by Chris Bush and music by Russell Hepplewhite, is a riotous and joyful drama, packed with mischief and mistaken identities, transporting Shakespeare's most beloved characters...">

...Chris Bush's play A Dream, featuring original songs with lyrics by Chris Bush and music by Russell Hepplewhite, is a riotous and joyful drama, packed with mischief and mistaken identities, transporting Shakespeare's most beloved characters...

Nick Hern Books, 2020

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (21), Female (9), Male (7), Unassigned (5)

...’Oh, if you knew the lives we women lead You'd understand the Devil is a catch.’ In this radical reimagining of the classic cautionary tale, Johanna Faustus makes the ultimate...">

...’Oh, if you knew the lives we women lead You'd understand the Devil is a catch.’ In this radical reimagining of the classic cautionary tale, Johanna Faustus makes the ultimate...

Nick Hern Books, 2021

NHB Modern Plays

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Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (2), Female (2), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Chris Bush's play Hungry is a two-hander that tells the story of a relationship between two women from very different backgrounds, both of whom work in the food industry. It explores love, class, grief and attitudes to what we eat...">

...Chris Bush's play Hungry is a two-hander that tells the story of a relationship between two women from very different backgrounds, both of whom work in the food industry. It explores love, class, grief and attitudes to what we eat...

Nick Hern Books, 2024

NHB Collected Works

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (7), Female (0), Male (0), Unassigned (7)

...Chris Bush's play Nine Lessons and Carols: Stories for a Long Winter, with songs by Maimuna Memon, was written during the Covid pandemic. It explores themes of connection and isolation, and what we hold on to in troubled times...">

...Chris Bush's play Nine Lessons and Carols: Stories for a Long Winter, with songs by Maimuna Memon, was written during the Covid pandemic. It explores themes of connection and isolation, and what we hold on to in troubled times...

Nick Hern Books, 2025

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (36), Female (36), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Break-ups aren't just about who gets the CD collection. As Jo and Harry begin to untangle themselves from each other, new worlds start to open up, worlds filled with new partners, new identities, new possibilities. What kind of women do...">

...Break-ups aren't just about who gets the CD collection. As Jo and Harry begin to untangle themselves from each other, new worlds start to open up, worlds filled with new partners, new identities, new possibilities. What kind of women do...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (8), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Paper is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.   The three plays were commissioned as part...">

...Paper is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.   The three plays were commissioned as part...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (8), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Rock is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.   The three plays were commissioned as part...">

...Rock is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.   The three plays were commissioned as part...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (8), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Scissors is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.   The three plays were commissioned as part...">

...Scissors is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.   The three plays were commissioned as part...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (27), Female (12), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...Standing at the Sky's Edge is a musical with a book by playwright Chris Bush, set to songs by singer-songwriter Richard Hawley. A history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate, it charts the hopes...">

...Standing at the Sky's Edge is a musical with a book by playwright Chris Bush, set to songs by singer-songwriter Richard Hawley. A history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate, it charts the hopes...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...‘I am the Labour Party candidate. Now ask me why.’‘Why?’‘Because I am the best damn person for the job.’ The top candidate without question, Vanessa was made to be Mayor. Thirty years prior, Josie just wants things...">

...‘I am the Labour Party candidate. Now ask me why.’‘Why?’‘Because I am the best damn person for the job.’ The top candidate without question, Vanessa was made to be Mayor. Thirty years prior, Josie just wants things...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 39, Roles: Total (46), Female (17), Male (28), Unassigned (1)

...A shocking crime divides the nation. Fingers are pointed, sides are drawn, facts are hard to come by. Why did this happen? How do we move on? What must we remember? It's easy to have an opinion online, safe behind the anonymity...">

...A shocking crime divides the nation. Fingers are pointed, sides are drawn, facts are hard to come by. Why did this happen? How do we move on? What must we remember? It's easy to have an opinion online, safe behind the anonymity...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

NHB Modern Plays

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Scenes: 5

...‘We stand on the edge On the threshold of On the entrance to Stepping out from...">

...‘We stand on the edge On the threshold of On the entrance to Stepping out from...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

NHB Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)