Books published by Nick Hern Books

Dornoch, in Sutherland, northern Scotland, 1727. The eccentric widow, Janet Horne boasts that she can cure beasts, call the wind and charm fish out of the sea. As her refusal to deny witchcraft incenses the local community, her crippled daughter steps dangerously into the fray.

Words Into Action shows actors how they can bring the text of a play to life on stage. It looks at action and intention, stillness and movement, sentences and rhetoric, and punctuation and pauses. There are also chapters on masks, on language as character, and on verse and prose, taking Hamlet as a model.

A penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication, Tribes is an exciting follow-up to Raine's successful debut, Rabbit, and follows such hits as Enron and Jerusalem into the Royal Court Theatre.

The second in a fascinating collection of plays that look mat the position of women in politics in English History.

The first of two volumes in which nine established female playwrights grapple with the complexities of women and politics in Britain's past and present.

A powerful play from one of Ireland's most innovative writers. Enda Walsh's extraordinary update of a section of The Odyssey sites four belligerent, self-made men in an empty, dilapidated swimming pool and watches them strut, posture and compete to outdo each other with every hilariously overweening speech.

In this wildly distinctive comedy set in 17th-century France, a vulgar and impossibly self-obsessed writer/perfomer attempts to win the favour of a Royal Personage and ignominiously oust his high-minded rival. All is accomplished in a virtuoso cascade of rhyming couplets!

A remarkable and sparkling piece of theatre celebrating an extraordinary episode in British history - the Women's Land Army of World War 11. Based on the letters and personal testament of hundreds of original Land Girls

Robert Tressell's pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators has become a classic of working-class literature. Howard Brenton's vivid stage adaptation lays bare the many social injustices perpetrated on these men but captures their individual characters with touching truth to life.

A funny, painful and deeply moving play about loss - and cooking.

A play of psychologically and physically murderous vengeance, Medea is one of the most powerful and perennially produced of all ancient drama.

Offers insight and experience in a series of exercises and games that are designed to free up creativity and release the imagination.

A blackly funny, absurd, hilarious, razor-sharp and fast-paced new comedy from playwright Tom Basden.

The valiant teacher battles on with biology revision. Outside the classroom, the world is in the middle of a long and bloody war. One by one pupils and teacher are pulled under, as their hopes and dreams float away from them. But in her biology lesson the teacher has taught her pupils that, like the cockroach, the fittest will survive.

"Overspill".

Set in rural Ireland of the early 60s, this work takes us into the burlesque world of Delaney's Travelling Roadshow and in particular its boxing hall where prizefighter Dean takes on all comers on a nightly basis. That is, until a challenge from a professional fighter upsets the apple-cart.

A brand new adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic - one of the most loved short stories ever written. In one ghostly Christmas night, cold-hearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge learns to pity himself and to love his neighbour - but is that enough? A brand new adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of the Christmas classic.

From the writer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Junkyard is a coming-of-age story about friendship and standing up for what matters.

In the offices of a notorious Manhattan magazine, a group of ruthless editorial assistants vie for their bosses' jobs and a book deal before they're thirty. But trapped between Starbucks runs, jaded gossip and endless cubicle walls, best-selling memoir fodder is thin on the ground - that is until inspiration arrives with a bang...

New York. A film studio. A young woman has an urgent story to tell. But here, people are products, movies are money and sex sells. And the rights to your life can be a dangerous commodity to exploit.

The blackly comic story of a closeted homosexual in 1950s London, Mr Thomas is Kathy Burke's first play, premiered at the Old Red Lion in Islington in 1990 starring Ray Winstone.