Small Hours

Author: Lucy Kirkwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motherhood
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Since her debut in 2008, Lucy Kirkwood has firmly established herself as a leading playwright of her generation, the writer of a series of savagely funny, highly intelligent and beautifully observed plays that tackle the pressing issues of our times. This collection, with an introduction by the author, brings together five of her plays.

Superhoe

Author: Nicôle Lecky
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848428386
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Lecky's play premiered by Talawa Theatre and the Royal Court at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2019.

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Author: Lynn Nottage
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822215721
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
THE STORY: Recently widowed Godfrey, and his daughters Ernestine and Ermina, move from Florida to Brooklyn for a better life. Not knowing how to parent, Godfrey turns to religion, and especially to Father Divine, for answers. The girls absorb their

Plays Four

Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Includes a revival of her best-known play, "Cloud Nine" and a new translation, "Bliss".

Nine Night

Author: Natasha Gordon
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573710100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When Gloria passes away, it falls to her British-born children to host the traditional Jamaican Nine Night celebration. Family and friends, familiar and unfamiliar, arrive to celebrate the life of the woman who connects them all and deal with unfinished business along the way. Nine Night is at once moving and raucously funny. Gordon paints the rituals of grief, the tensions of family and the complexities of identity with an acute eye and razor-sharp wit.

Boys

Author: Ella Hickson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848422629
Category : College graduates
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Five bedrooms, five chairs and four boys. The class of 2011 are about to graduate and Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their flat. Stepping into a world that doesn't want them, these boys start to wonder whether there's any point in getting older. How will they find the fight to make it as adults? Before all that they're going to have one hell of a party. It's hot and there'll be girls. Predict a riot."--Back cover.

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort Of) (NHB Modern Plays)

Author: Isobel McArthur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839040467
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
A loving and irreverent all-female adaptation of Jane Austen's unrivalled literary classic.

15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid

Author: Various Various
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848429864
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
A collection of monologues inspired by Ovid written by female and non-binary British playwrights.

Girls and Dolls

Author: Lisa McGee
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
Promising young female Northern Irish writer.

Forever House

Author: Glenn Waldron
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848423305
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A haunting, unforgettable first play about buried secrets and new beginnings, from an exciting new voice in British theatre.