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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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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
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-372-6 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Ian Wooldridge, from George Orwell
This powerful new dramatisation of Orwell's enduring parable on the perils of totalitarianism remains extremely faithful to the original, retaining both its affection for the animals and the inciciveness of its message. Contains a helpful set of production notes intended for schools and other groups wishing to stage the play.
Review
Dare I say it... as good as the book
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Guardian
Cast : 6-14 actors - male of female
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-789-2 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ
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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.
Awards
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1992 Time Out Award - Outstanding Theatrical Event
Review
Theatre this engrossing is rare
- Time Out
Cast : 4M, 3F (doubling possible)
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-197-4 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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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.
Cast : 6M, 3F +extras
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-017-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Dominic Cooke
This simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights was adapted by Dominic Cooke during his time as the Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre.
Review
Superb... weaves a potent spell of enchantment as it moves from cruelty to happiness and from the blissfully ribald to the deeply affecting -
Daily Telegraph
Cast : 5M, 4F (doubling required) Performance Rights : Nick Hern
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-058-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Jacqueline Wilson, adapted Vicky Ireland
An energetic, fast-moving adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic, by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.
Mandy's been picked on at school for as long as she can remember. That's why she is delighted when cheeky, daring, full-of-fun Tanya picks her as a friend. Mum isn't happy – she thinks Tanya's a 'bad girl' and a bad influence. Mandy's sure Tanya can only get her out of trouble, not into it. But can she?
This edition comes with production notes indicating how the play can be staged even with minimal resources - plus a lot of ingenuity!
Review
Punchy, stimulating and theatrically ingenious...
Bad Girls is a veritable model of theatre for young people
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Manchester Evening News
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-910-0 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Arne Sierens, in a version by Stephen Greenhorn
A neat and poignant two-hander about memory, truth and love.
When Paola invites Raymond into her life, as drum teacher to her son, the past gets messily unravelled. Unknown to her, he's the half-brother of her great passion, the famous Serge. And just as they share a bond of love with him, their memories of the past are a little too close for comfort. Who's got the best version of the truth?
Prolific Flemish writer Arne Sierens' play is translated and adapted from the original Flemish by Stephen Greenhorn, the writer of the smash hit
Passing Places.
Review
Intense, funny and compelling
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Scotsman
Cast : 1M, 1F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-667-3 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Laurence Boswell
This enchanting play can be performed straight or with music, drawn from traditional French folk melodies. The score is available separately from the text.
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Hard to imagine a more hauntingly beautiful children's show
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Daily Telegraph
Cast : 4M, 4F, doubling
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-307-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Lucy Kirkwood and Katie Mitchell
To repay her father’s
debt a young girl agrees to live in the castle of a hideous beast only to
discover that true love can be found in the most unlikely of places, buried
deeper than your heart.
A wild and lively production,
filled with magic and wonder, music and dance. The National Theatre’s Christmas
treat for the family is guaranteed to be as enchanting and beautiful as its
title suggests. Following on from the smash hit
The Cat in the Hat, also directed by Katie Mitchell, this may be a
very different type of story but it’s one that is sure to be every bit as
successful and every bit as thrilling.
Cast : 3M, 3F (doubling required)
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Nick Hern Books UK | 978-1-84842-157-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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