Books published by Nick Hern Books

In a provincial town somewhere in Russia, a shell-shocked soldier downs vodka on his return from the frontline in Chechnya. As he arrives home he stumbles into the epicentre of an extraordinary power struggle that threatens to tear the town apart.

On a sweltering summer's day Wheeler and Fitz are ambushed by Dani, the fittest (and poshest) girl on the beach. So begins a crazy twenty-four hours that will change the lives of the three sixteen-year-olds for ever.

The hit Australian play published alongside Almeida Theatre, directed by Mike Attenborough.

Brings the fabled figures of Jonathan Harker, the archetypal innocent abroad, Mina Westerman, his anxious fiance, Renfield, Van Helsing and, of course, Count Dracula himself, in an adaptation for the stage.

The villagers of Fuente Ovejuna in rural Spain rise up against their cruel and sexually predatory Commander, eventually killing him. When agents sent by the King and Queen set about torturing the villagers to find out who did the murder, each one gives the answer: 'Fuente Ovejuna did it'.

One of Charles Dickens' best-loved and most autobiographical stories, dramatised for a cast of ten - including Dickens' marvellous creations, Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs Peggotty, Murdstone, Steerforth and Betsey Trotwood. This stage adaptation focuses on the essentials of the story while maintaining the colour, humour and drama of the book.

Hedda Gabler is one of the most controversial female characters in Western drama, with the meaning and value of her tragic fate hotly disputed. Free-spirited but trapped in a stifling marriage, intelligent and questing but consigned to a life of bourgeois idleness, she is caught between a disturbed sense of propriety and a desire for revolution.

A play set in the Dublin underworld of gambling, armed robbery - and taxi drivers. It explores the boundaries of loyalty, trust, betrayal and gambling.

A play about sexual politics, premiered in London's West End, by the author of "Honour".

A thrilling, funny and spectacular adaptation of Joan Aitken's classic novel.

Marie, twenty-something, and Lorraine, early fifties, have shared a cell. Now Marie is in her own bedsit, coping with life on the outside - just about. That is until poor, hopeless Lorraine shows up.

"The key British theatre work of the last decade." Time Out 2012. An Instant Modern Classic. A comic, contemporary vision of life in our green and pleasant land. BEST PLAY Evening Standard Awards BEST PLAY Critics Circle Awards.

Suitable for actors, directors, students and teachers of movement in the theatre, this work deals with the vital building blocks of movement training.

Kristin Miller's birthday should be a time for celebration but when her son Simon decides to deliver his version of the past, everyone must confront the cost of Kristin's commitment to her passions.

Based on the curious fact that the Scottish Presbyterian Robert Louis Stevenson and the hedonistic Paul Gauguin both ended their days on the South Sea Islands within a few years of each other, this work compares and contrasts the very different, but oddly similar lives they were living in their respective tropical paradises.

Two couples live side by side in identical houses. On the outside Ned is a confident demolitions expert: on the inside he's a mess. He is the victim of increasingly bizarre but recurrent theft, and his marriage to Joy is running out of steam. Eventually he is usurped by his neighbour, and Joy deserts him - literally and metaphorically.

101 great drama games for use in any classroom or workshop setting. Part of the NHB Drama Games series. A dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, packed with 101 lively drama games suitable for players of all ages, with many appropriate for children from age 6 upwards. Whilst aimed primarily at school, youth theatre and community groups, they are equally fun - and instructional - for adults to play in workshop or rehearsal settings. 'Small but perfectly formed, this is an essential purchase for classroom teachers and workshop leaders alike.' Total Theatre Magazine

Two old women, trapped in a remote Irish town of gossip and fish, obsessively relive the time when, as 17-year-olds, they were nearly seduced at the New Electric Ballroom by Roller Doyle, the singer in a touring band.

Six strangers turn up in a rehearsal room and demand that their story be acted out by the assembled company. As the actors perform, the increasingly gruesome story becomes frighteningly real.

A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past - brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise of a new life. Kindertransport is a set text for GE Drama (AQA) and AS/A-Level English Literature (WJEC). This edition also includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport. Winner of the 1992 Verity Bargate Award 'Desperately harrowing... searing theatre that cuts across a continuum of suffering to the very heart of what unifies us as human' The Times 'A powerful contribution to Holocaust literature... presented with emotional clarity and intense sympathy' New Yorker

Features a stage adaptation of Andrea who is condemned to shuttling between her Mum and Dad when each takes up with a new partner.

A play about an ill-assorted trio (two men and one woman) and their near-fatal obsession with mountaineering.

First staged in 1676, "The Man of Mode" is perhaps the most typical 'Restoration Comedy'. This title is published alongside a revival of this play at the National Theatre, staged by the Artisitic Director, Nicholas Hytner.