Books published by Nick Hern Books

A historical drama about the 18-year-old Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and the protestant reformer, John Knox.

A one-man comedy-drama about a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris.

Ex-boxer Taylor Flint wants to put the past behind her. Yet back on the Hull estate where she grew up, she is drawn into running a boxercise class. Amanda Whittington's play is inspired by Hull's original Mighty Atom, Barbara Buttrick.

A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love.

A play about the human cost of surrogacy, and what we'll overlook to get what we want.

A tender, dark and funny look at a co-dependent relationship between a brother and a sister, and how they cope when the world bursts in on them.

A theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control.

A moving, funny and charming play that takes you through decades of history seen through the eyes of one village resident.

A play that challenges our understanding of mythology, and forces us to ask vital questions about military occupation.

A fable about the moral and environmental cost of our materialistic nesting instincts.

A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope.

A sensitive, delicate and powerful play that asks what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you. Winner of the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights.

A beautiful, heart-warming, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story for our times.

A love triangle with a dangerous twist, this moving and funny play explores the everyday dilemmas of a young woman living with autism.

Eye-opening, empowering and inspiring, All Change Please is a book about why change in theatre matters, its benefits - artistic, commercial, ethical and social - and how, with everyone's help, we can actually achieve it.

Fall in love with your voice. Get to know how it works. You will soon feel how good it is to sound like you. The Head of Voice at the National Theatre, London, shares the voice exercises she uses with many of Britain's leading actors to help to keep their voices in shape.

An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.

A sublimely playful, profound and very funny play by celebrated actor Mark Rylance and critically acclaimed Minnesotan contemporary prose poet Louis Jenkins.

Chris Hannan's powerful new play is a searing look at how a politically divided country moves forward in the wake of a crisis.

First collection of plays for the acclaimed writer of the multi-award-winning Chimerica.

Two ageing nuclear scientists wait in an isolated cottage on the coast, as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request.

An incisive, unflinching insight into what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable. Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize 2016.

An experienced actor, theatre-maker and Feldenkrais practitioner leads you through ways in which using the Feldenkrais Method can increase your physical, emotional and mental potential.

A play about T.E. Lawrence, once celebrated as Lawrence of Arabia, but who now wants only to be normal once more.

Mike Bartlett's complete scripts for his superlative television drama series, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards.

A funny, moving and unswervingly honest story of a perfectly ordinary couple who find themselves on an extraordinary journey when they enter the world of IVF.