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'Tis Pity She’s a Whore
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'Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

John Ford

The tragic story of incestuous love between Giovanni and his sister Annabella.

When Annabella is found to be pregnant by her brother, she agrees to marry her suitor Soranzo. But when the lovers' incestuous secret is discovered, vengeance and bloody murder follow.

Edited and introduced by Lisa Hopkins.

Cast : 4f, 12m
Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-169-2 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Alchemist, The
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Alchemist, The

Ben Jonson

Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns and the three turn against each other.

Edited by Simon Trussler, with an introduction by Colin Counsell.

'Ben Jonson's comedy of dupes and conmen couldn't be more contemporary' Time Out
Cast : 10M, 2F, Townsfolk
Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-262-0 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
All for Love
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All for Love

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

John Dryden

Dryden's version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy. Antony and Octavius Caesar are struggling for control of what was to become the Roman Empire. Antony and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, are lovers and political allies, but their forces have been defeated at the battle of Actium. The play is set in Alexandria, under siege by Octavius Caesar.

Edited and introduced Trevor R. Griffiths.

Cast : 6M, 4F, 2 children, + extras
Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-372-6 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
An Absolute Turkey
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An Absolute Turkey

Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation. An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at the Globe Theatre in 1993.
'Sharp, natty, decorously indecent dialogue' Sunday Times
Oberon Books | 978-0-94823-074-5 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Andromache
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Andromache

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Euripides

The story of Andromache, widow of the Trojan hero Hector.

Some years after the fall of Troy, Andromache is living as a slave to Neoptolemus, by whom she has a child. When Neoptolemus' fiercely jealous young wife, Hermione, finds she is unable to conceive, she threatens to murder Andromache, and the struggle between the two women turns quickly into a bitter feud.

Translated and introduced by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton.

Cast : 6M, 4F, + chorus & extras
Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-638-3 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy (a stage adaptation by Helen Edmundson

Helen Edmundson's celebrated and 'exemplary adaptation' ( The Times) of Leo Tolstory's enduring classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love. 

The play won the Time Out Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event of 1992. This edition was published alongside a revival of the play at ther Arcola Theatre, London, in 2011.

'Theatre this engrossing is rare'  Time Out


Cast : 4M, 3F, doubling possible
Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-197-4 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Antigone
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Antigone

Sophocles (adapted by Owen McCafferty)
Both Antigone’s brothers lie dead, having killed each other in single combat, one attacking Thebes, the other defending the city. Creon, ruler of Thebes, has forbidden the burial of Polyneices, because he was the attacker. Antigone is determined to bury him. The resulting conflict ends in a bloodbath of suicides.

Irish playwright Owen McCafferty’s new version of this ancient story closely follows Sophocles, but the language is tough and modern allowing parallels with today’s Realpolitik to emerge through the Ancient Greek values that underlie the original.

'One of the brightest discoveries of the National Theatre... his promise is magnificently confirmed.' Daily Telegraph on (Scenes from the Big Picture)

Cast : 6M, 3F, plus extras
Nick Hern Books  | 978-1-84842-017-5 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Antigone
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Antigone

Currency Classics

Sophocles (adapted by Eamon Flack)
‘What a great piece of theatre! The adaptation by Eamon Flack retains the power of the original, while making it not so much up to date, as timeless.’ ArtsHub

Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes’ civil war, have both been killed in battle. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honoured and Polyneices disgraced. The rebel brother’s body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lay unburied to become the food of carrion animals. Defying Creon’s edict Antigone buries her brother and in so doing unleashes a terrible tragedy.

Antigone is part of a new series,  CURRENCY CLASSICS, a series of Australian adaptations of classic plays.

To read an extract from Antigone go to this PDF

CAST: 4F 4M

Currency Press | 978-0-86819-880-4 | PB
Antigone
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Antigone

Sophocles

The first great 'resistance' drama – and one of the most definitive Greek tragedies.

Creon, the King of Thebes, has forbidden the burial of Antigone's brother because he was put to death as a traitor to the crown. Despite being engaged to Creon's son Haemon, Antigone disobeys the King and buries her brother. Enraged, Creon condemns Antigone to death and buries her alive in a cave. The prophet Teiresias warns Creon against such rash actions, and eventually Creon relents – but when he goes to release Antigone it is too late: she has already hanged herself.

Translated and introduced by Marianne McDonald. Also available in Greek Tragedy.

Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-200-2 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
Antipodes
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Antipodes

Richard Brome

In the Globe Quarto series co-published with Shakespeare's Globe to mark the rediscovery of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.

The Antipodes includes a play-within-the-play, also called 'The Antipodes', which is used as psychotherapy for Peregrine Joyless's obsession with travel books, with the aim of recalling him to his marital duties. Brome's audience is also confronted with a picture of the topsy-turviness of the 'world upside down' of London in the 1630s.

The play was revived, in an adapted form by Gerald Freedman, at Shakespeare's Globe in 2000.

Edited by David Scott Kastan & Richard Proudfoot.

Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-603-1 | AUSTRALIA/NZ | PB
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