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Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
Transmission Arts is the first book of its kind: heavily illustrated (150 images), it appeals to a growing interest in sound art, visual art, and performance crossovers.
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I Think We Are Alone
From those electric moments of discovery and connection to the dark hours of isolation, we all seek community and resolution. But sometimes the things that connect us are the very things we need to escape. I Think We Are Alone was commissioned by Frantic Assembly as part of their twenty-fifth ann...
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The Roman Actor
New RSC Classics series highlights rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays.
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The Battle
An important contribution to modern drama.--Choice
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Carole Fréchette: Two Plays
Carole Fréchette has been a force in Québec theatre for over 25 years
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So You Want To Be A TV Presenter?
An intensely practical and vocational guide to starting a career on TV as a presenter.
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Pack
A raw, uncompromising drama about bigotry and racism that explores the insidious rise of the British National Party.
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Herding Cats
A blackly comic, brutal, and truthful new play that manages to find the dark humor in the loneliness of life.
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Poisoned Polluted
A new play about sisterhood and survival.
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Luise Miller
Adapted from Schiller's 1784 play Kabale und Liebe.
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Who Killed Spalding Gray?
From renowned playwright Daniel MacIvor comes a moving and darkly comedic solo performance about truth, lies, life, and death.
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Speech & Debate (TCG Edition)
A dark comedy from the Tony Award-winning playwright of The Humans.
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Cellophane
"He is James Joyce reborn as a rap artist."--Mew Gussow, New York Times
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The Schuman Plan
"A touching account of how local livelihoods are blighted by European rules... fascinating" -The Guardian
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Reaching for Starlight
Reenie wants to dance, following in her mother’s footsteps. Just like the rest of her ensemble, she believes she has what it takes to earn the coveted solo at the year-end recital. But when she notices that their strict maestra is not holding everyone to the same “traditional” standard—particular...
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The Josephine Knot
The author of Blood: A Scientific Romance is back with a story in which a family must pack up a matriarch’s things while unpacking the past and untangling the present.
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Mortified
A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a fourteen-year-old synchronized swimmer struggling to make sense of the world around her.
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Electric Rosary
Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award - 2017Behind the crumbling walls of St Grace's Convent, an exhausted order of nuns needs resurrecting. As Easter approaches, Mother Elizabeth has just the thing.Behold 'Mary', a council-funded robot. Practical and surprisingly funny, for some a blessing, for others a...
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The 47th
2024. As America goes to the polls, democracy itself is on the brink. Who takes the White House – and at what cost?Mike Bartlett's viciously funny and foreboding The 47th is a dazzling glimpse into the underbelly of the greatest political show on earth: the US presidential race.It was first produ...
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When Winston Went To War With The Wireless
In May 1926, Britain grinds to a halt, as workers down tools for the General Strike.With the printing presses shut down, the only sources of news are the government's British Gazette, edited by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, and the independent, fledgling British Broadcasting Comp...
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Sorrows and Rejoicings
With lyrical grace, Fugard demonstrates the human struggle to transcend the treacherous injustices of history. Sorrows and Rejoicings explores the legacy of Apartheid on two women—one white, the other Black—who on the surface seem to have little in common. What they do share is love for the same...
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Liolà
An unexpected, funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community.
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Mary Shelley
A riveting new drama exploring the life and work of one of the 19th century's most extraordinary women.
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debbie tucker green plays: one
A first collection of plays from the acclaimed dramatist.
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Writing Music for the Stage
The latest in Nick Hern Books' hugely successful So You Want...? series.
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This Is How We Got Here
Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, This is How We Got Here follows a close-knit family as they deal with an unexpected loss. A mother, father, aunt, and uncle must learn how to move forward after the trauma and re-learn how to interact with one another with forgiveness, humor, and love.
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Your Turn to Clean the Stair and Fugue
Two plays by the winner of the 1991 Susan Smith Balckburn Award for the best play by a woman in the English speaking world.
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Bar Mitzvah Boy
A sentimental dramedy will charm anyone who has ever questioned why bad things happen to good people.
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Drama Games for Actors
New in the increasingly popular Drama Games series, packed with dozens of drama games that can be used in rehearsals.
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Bartholomew Fair
Jonson's most ambitious and flamboyant comedy, often considered the culmination of his career.
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First Episode
Publication coincides with a swelling tide of revivals to celebrate Rattigan’s centenary.
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Eurydice
Sarah Ruhl's luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth through the eyes of the heroine.
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Kanye The First
Sam Steiner's Kanye the First is a dazzlingly funny and original drama about identity, guilt, contemporary culture and the second coming of Kanye West. It premiered in September 2017 by HighTide Festival.
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The Gay Heritage Project
Equal parts personal curiosity, answers to the past, and information for the future, The Gay Heritage Project is a hilarious, thought-provoking meta tale that connects queer communities everywhere.
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Jan Fabre: The Servant of Beauty
This volume of monologues is the second collection of works by Jan Fabre for the theatre in an English translation.
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The One
A viciously funny play about a couple trapped in a destructive and violent cycle of love and lust.
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Secrets of Stage Success
Two musical theatre stars working today answer questions submitted by the public on a wide range of theatrical topics.
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Little Eagles
Commissioned by the RSC for the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first orbit around the Earth.
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Jude
Loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure, Howard Brenton's play Jude is a modern-day tale of unexpected genius and of our struggle to accommodate extraordinary talent.
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As Above
Quintana’s writing is natural, bitingly funny, and heartfelt. —The Georgia Straight Jo, a sixty-something recovering alcoholic, struggles to piece together a life shattered by addiction. Once a prominent botanical researcher, she now lectures at the local horticultural centre and begins to open ...
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Audition Songs for Women
The Good Audition Guides: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills.
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The Trials
The near future. The climate emergency is gathering pace, and our generation is being judged.The jurors are children. But are they delivering justice – or just taking revenge?Dawn King's searing play The Trials was first performed at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in January 2022, and was a fina...
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My First Play
Sixty-six miniature memoirs by leading playwrights, actors and theatre directors, celebrating 25 years of Nick Hern Books.
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The Elemental Actor
We are all a complex mixture of the elemental energies identified by many different cultures throughout history: Earth, Air, Fire, Water – and a fifth element called Quintessence or Spirit. As an actor, you need to be able to access each of them, so that you can draw on whichever element you need...
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Public Enemy
Three generations of a family argue over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment can both divide and unite people. Elizabeth, the matriarch, has invited her children and grandchildren over ...
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Humana Festival 2006: The Complete Plays
A collection of all ten scripts from the 2006 Humana Festival of New American Plays.
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The Last Wife
A contemporary retelling of the tumultuous relationship between Katherine Parr and Henry VIII.
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Miss Julie & Creditors
August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power – both written in the summer of 1888 – in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton.
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Act French
Follows on the success of the Act French season of new theatre in New York, 2005.
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The Clearing
The brilliany original play by a rising young British playwright.
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Bellringers
The storms are getting worse, with rains so hard that fish are falling from the sky. But the age-old belief prevails: that the pealing of bells can dissipate the thunder and lightning. It's a perilous task – one that now falls to two young friends, Clement and Aspinall. And as the weather worse...
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Birds of a Kind
In this sweeping new drama from the prolific Wajdi Mouawad, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hits close to home as a straight-laced family is forced to confront everything they know about their identities.
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Amaryllis & Little Witch
In these dark fairy tales, two girls face danger while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way. Imaginative and curious, these fables illustrate adventures for children who have to make big choices.
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Shakespeare Monologues for Women
Full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays. Ideal for actors of all ages and experience.
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Valley Song
Valley Song is a tender poem of deep, deep love between two human beings, a story of rebirth, and of miracles at hand. —John Heilpern, New York Observer Rarely has a playwright been so closely identified with his country and his people as Athol Fugard. Fugard's extensive body of work has served ...
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Passion Play (TCG Edition)
An examination of faith and politics, by the author of The Clean House.
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Lincoln
A revealing drama about a great American president.
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The Sun on the Tongue
The 4th volume in the Performance Ideas series. A collection of literary texts, poems, plays, paintings, and drawings, accompanied by an interview on poetry and painting with the author.
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Bhopal
"a pitiless analysis of the stakes of globalization" - Paul Lefebvre, Dramaturg
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The Meaning of Zong
Over two hundred years ago, Olaudah Equiano changed the world. After reading reports of the British ship Zong, where 132 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard, he joins forces with anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp and together they set in motion events which will go on to galvanise the a...
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Mistatim / Instant
In these two plays for young audiences, award-winning playwright Erin Shields presents the challenges of communication and friendship.
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The Crown Jewels
It's 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing – in plain sight – the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.With an audacious plan and a gang of misfits by his side, can he possibly pull it off? And is King Charles II in any moo...
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Hedda Gabler
New adaptation of Ibsen's classic by Richard Eyre, who ran England's National Theatre from 1988-97.
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Fury
A chilling and powerful modern Medea about motherhood and class, taking an unapologetic look at the single young mum.
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Sleep Deprivation Chamber
Winner of the 1996 OBIE Award for Best Play A gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the Black experience of twentieth-century America. A broken taillight leads to the brutal beating of a highly educated, middle-class black man by a policeman in suburban Virginia. The Kennedys inter...
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The Last Noël
An innovative festive drama, The Last Noël is a funny, moving, uplifting play with original songs.
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The Breathing Hole | Aglu
Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.
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Theory
Is there a limit to free speech? Who gets to decide? Isabelle’s film theory students are stunned that she would open an unmoderated online discussion group to complement a controversial syllabus. Her intention was for them to learn from each other, but when an anonymous student starts to post rac...
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Orca
An incisive, unflinching insight into what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable.
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The Girlfriend Experience
Royal Court premiere for a very funny, true-life play about the private lives of prostitutes.
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Hamilton and Me
“One of the most joyous and clear-eyed approaches to playing a character that I have ever read…I was already in awe of his performance; now I’m in awe of his humanity and attention to detail, and willingness to share the hard work and magic that goes into it.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda, from his Forewo...
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Nell Gwynn
Swale's exhilarating take on the heady world of Restoration theatre premiered at Shakespeare's Globe before transferring to the West End.
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F*ck the Polar Bears
A funny and surreal family drama about the power of the individual in a world obscured by politics.
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Valhalla
Suffused with Norse mythology, Valhalla explores the boundaries of scientific research and tests the endurance of human love.
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The Viewpoints Book
The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landa...
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Advice from the Players
A host of stars from stage and screen dispense invaluable advice for those just starting on an acting career.
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Wheelchair
Wheelchair, by Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Arbery, follows the shifting lives of cities, apartments, objects, and a man named Gordon. Even though he's being evicted, Gordon believes himself to be one of God’s thirty-six chosen people. In this play, which teeters between comedy and tragedy, peopl...
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The Excellent Audition Guide
A reassuring, encouraging "how to" book that demystifies the often scary-looking process of applying to drama school.
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nut
The latest play by acclaimed British dramatist debbie tucker green.
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Notebooks
Fugard registers and captures the keen images that are the very stuff of vibrant theatre.—Time Athol Fugard's Notebooks gives readers a glimpse into his writing process over the course of 17 crucial years. In this time, he penned such classics as Hello and Goodbye, Boesman and Lena, and Blood K...
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The Faith Machine
A new play from the award-winning author of The Pride.
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How Black Mothers Say I Love You
From the author of the blockbuster hit ’da Kink in my hair comes an emotional and raw look into family dynamics, trust, resolution, and change.
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Native Nation Project
This three-play collection celebrates the vibrancy and vitality of modern Indigenous culture and draw attention to complex issues within the contemporary Native experience. This latest volume from the acclaimed author of The Thanksgiving Play collects a trilogy of plays co-created with Cornersto...
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Plays From the Boom Box Galaxy
An anthology of theater created by and for the Hip Hop generation.
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Junkyard
A brilliantly honest and witty new musical from BAFTA Award-winning writer Jack Thorne with music by Stephen Warbeck , Junkyard is a coming-of-age story about friendship and standing up for what matters.
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How It Ends
Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it? Grieving siblings Natalie and Bart have differing views on how we die. Natalie, a palliative care nurse, knows how drugs ca...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Burgess' acclaimed version of Cyrano de Bergerac.
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All for Love
Dryden's retelling of Antony and Cleopatra story as a heroic tragedy.
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Charley's Aunt
“A clever and relevant adaptation…As important and timely as it is charming and funny, it’s a perfect example of what breathing new life into much-loved classics can achieve.” –West End Best Friend Scheming students Charley and Jack must somehow navigate the curmudgeonly Spettigue family in orde...
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Linda Griffiths
This collection of essays on the late Canadian playwright Linda Griffiths seeks to commemorate her impressive theatrical legacy by bringing together major scholars and theatre artists from across Canada to discuss her work.
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The Jim Lehrer Plays
It's the first debate of the 2004 presidential campaign and President George W. Bush is determined to kill PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer live on stage. His opponent, Senator Kerry, agrees Lehrer should die—"Indeed, what else tonight besides the manner of Jim Lehrer's execution could be of interest t...
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Now, I See
Two brothers, long estranged, reunite at a ceremony to honor their lost sibling's life. As they seek to let go, they must confront the past whilst rediscovering the joy that binds them together.A powerful fusion of movement, song and text, Now, I See is an exploration of identity, forgiveness and...
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I.D.
Written by actor Antony Sher, who also stars in the premiere.
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The Political History of Smack and Crack
Crackling with anger, humour and authenticity, Ed Edwards’ play The Political History of Smack and Crack chronicles the fallout for communities crushed by the heroin epidemic at the height of Thatcherism.
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Two Billion Beats
Seventeen-year-old Asha is an emphatic rebel, unafraid of pointing out the hypocrisy around her but less sure how to actually dismantle it. Her younger sister, Bettina, wide-eyed and naïve, is just trying to get through the school day without getting her pocket money nicked.Between essays, homewo...
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Plays from VAULT 4
An anthology of seven of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2019, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.
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Three Sisters
A new adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters.
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Unravelling the Ribbon
A moving, frequently hilarious Irish play for three women about the daily reality of breast cancer.
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The Last King of Scotland (stage version)
A stage adaptation Giles Foden's multi-award-winning novel The Last King of Scotland, an electrifying thriller about corruption and complicity.
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Winter of 88
A new apartment should be a warm and welcoming signal to a fresh chapter of life. It shouldn’t be where a family waits in the dark, surrounded by unpacked boxes, as missiles rain down around them. Already eight years into the Iran–Iraq war, Nasrin and her two adult children—daughter Nahid and son...
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