Nick Hern Books, 2017

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Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...James Fritz's play Comment is Free is about a journalist caught up in a devastating media storm. The published version of the play was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 5 October 2016. An earlier version was performed in a staged reading...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...James Fritz’s play Lava is a drama set in the aftermath of a asteroid strike on the capital city, exploring grief, masculinity and the power of expression. It was first performed at Nottingham Playhouse on 15 June 2018, produced by Fifth...

Nick Hern Books, 2017

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (12), Female (7), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...James Fritz's Parliament Square is a play that explores how far an individual should take a gesture of political protest in order to effect change. It won the Judges’ Award in the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2015. It was first performed...

Nick Hern Books, 2015

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

...What happens when two friends who were always meant to be together, get together - and stay together? No one told them life was going to be this way... A dark and uncompromising play about romance, expectation...

Nick Hern Books, 2023

NHB Modern Plays

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...James Fritz's play Skyscraper Lullaby is a powerful drama about two parents trying to come to terms with the disappearance of their toddler, looking at the ways we cope with tragedy, complicity, and remorse.  ...

Nick Hern Books, 2017

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

...James Fritz's Start Swimming is a play that asks what power young people have to affect change and resist authority. It was developed by the Young Vic Taking Part department, and was first performed in The Clare, Young Vic, London, on 26...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (10), Female (0), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...James Fritz’s The Fall is a play about ageing and intergenerational differences, written to be performed by young people. It was first performed by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain at the Finborough Theatre, London, on 9 August...

Nick Hern Books, 2023

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (19), Female (2), Male (17), Unassigned (0)

...James Fritz's play The Flea is an anarchic retelling of the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889, when a homosexual male brothel was discovered by police in London, and the government was accused of covering up the scandal to protect some...

Nick Hern Books, 2023

NHB Modern Plays

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

...James Fritz's short play twins is a drama exploring the connection between a pair of twins. It was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in November 2015 as part of the Miniaturists’ 10th Birthday Bash.  ...