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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
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-169-2 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Heimann, Monaghan & Petterle
Imagine that you must choose one single memory from your life as your only way of passing through to eternity. Imagine that you have just one hour to choose...
A stunning play for five actors which combines traditional storytelling with physical theatre. Ideal for schools, youth groups and amateur theatre companies.
Review
This play moved me more profoundly than anything I can remember seeing
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Scotsman
Cast : 2M, 2F + 1 extra M/F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-737-3 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Jack Thorne
2nd May 1997. An historic victory. The Tories, eighteen years in
power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps into government. From the
euphoria and despair, three deeply personal stories emerge.
Tory
MP Robert prepares to attend the count. With defeat looming large, he
fears becoming a forgotten man, while his wife Marie counts the cost of
her own sacrifice to politics. Lib Dem footsoldier Ian is no hero, but
party-crasher Sarah is determined to make him one. Best mates Jake and
Will wake up with a new world order to memorise before their A-level
Politics class. Jake dreams of Number 10. Will dreams of Jake
A smouldering play about escaping the past, seizing the present and owning the future.
Cast : 4M, 2F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-080-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Edward Kemp
It's 1605 and the war on terror is going badly. A group of young religious fanatics has recruited a mercenary, Guy Fawkes, to strike at the heart of the English Government. But in a police state no-one can be trusted and their plot is going to be turned against the very people it was meant to save. This incendiary thriller weaves together the lives of kings and terrorists, priests and spies in a play of epic proportions, which has the sweep and scope of the very best historical drama.
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a big, bold, joltingly topical new play... explosive epic with echoes for today -
Daily Telegraph
Cast : 20M, 6F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-900-1 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Howard Brenton
December
1648. The army has occupied London. Parliament votes not to put the imprisoned
King on trial, so the army moves against Westminster and the only military coup
in English history takes place. But the army leadership remains divided:
Cromwell would prefer a compromise with the King, but the King will not
compromise. A new nation must therefore be forged… and over 55 days, an
entirely new world is created.
Cast : 13M, 2F (doubling required)
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Nick Hern Books UK | 978-1-84842-287-2 | Sales: Australia/NZ only | PB
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Ben Power
Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story...
Ben Power weaves the text of Romeo and Juliet into a provocative new tale of love and sacrifice. Re-imagining Shakespeare's story,
A Tender Thing is an elegiac yet ultimately hopeful account of the human capacity for love.
Shakespeare's timeless poetry provides the backdrop for this delicate and moving account of old age, memory and the demands we make of those we love. When a married couple discover that their lifetime together is drawing to a close, they realise they cannot contemplate being apart.
Review
Power's ingenious reorganisation pays off handsomely... what did Shakespeare know? -
Guardian
Cast : 1M, 1F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-082-3 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Thomas Heywood (edited by Trevor Griffiths)
Heywood's startling domestic thriller written in 1603,
A Woman Killed with Kindness
strips bare two women's lives - with forensic realism - in one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people.
Cast : 19M, 3F (doubling required)
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Nick Hern Books, UK | 978-1-84842-186-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Kate Atkinson
A play about love, death, indentity and evolution, from the best-selling and highly acclaimed novelist.
Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone. She's moved into a converted Victorian mansion, alive with history, character, woodworm and rot. But worse than that she's besieged by invaders of the human kind. Her best friend, her sister, their mother, the builder and a photographer are all determined to make their mark. And a former inhabitant of the house, disturbed from her resting place by Elizabeth's arrival, revisits her own long-forgotten past.
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Witty, intelligent and absorbing... terrific comic dialogue
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The Scotsman
Cast : 5M, 2F (doubling possible)
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-601-7 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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William Gaminara
Five old friends meet for a traditional evening of poker. As the stakes rise the deception of the game exposes the deception of their lives.
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A sharp, entertaining comedy
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Guardian
Cast : 5M
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-355-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Nick Moseley
As Head of Acting at a major drama school, Nick Moseley has developed a system that is based on the individual's need to find truth in everything they do, to be 'in the moment' and to react instinctively to the other people on stage. In this book, he takes the best of Stanislavski, David Mamet and Sanford Meisner to fuel his own intensely practical approach.
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-803-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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