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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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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.
Review
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.
Review
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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Polly Teale
The hit show from Shared Experience Theatre Company based on the
tortured and passionate life of Jean Rhys and her most famous book,
Wide Sargasso Sea, the prequel to
Jane Eyre.
In
Wide Sargasso Sea – 'one of the works of genius of the 20th century',
The Times – Jean Rhys first gave voice to Bertha Mason, Mr Rochester’s first wife in
Jane Eyre.
Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean’s alter ego, this
dramatization of Rhys’ life gives full vent to her obsession with the
“mad woman in the attic”.
Review
A revelation, a rare feat of theatrical imagining
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Evening Standard
Cast : 6M, 2F (doubling possible)
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-745-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Terence Rattigan
Set in the Mayfair flat of a high-living, hard-drinking writer, David, the play turns on his involvement with two women, his wife Joan and an earnest-minded younger woman, Helen. Joan commits suicide. David considers following her but instead chooses to return to a life of parties and drinking.
Review
A harrowing critique of a period of heedless frivolity and a dazzling reminder of the strengths of Rattigan’s writing
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London Evening Standard
Cast : 8M, 5F + extras
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-217-0 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Eugene O’Neill
Ah! Wilderness, first staged in 1933, is often seen as a bright and sunny reverse-image of the sombre
Long Day's Journey into Night. Both are family plays set in the year just before the First World War. Both take place in a house clearly modelled on the O'Neill family home in New England. For O'Neill,
Ah! Wilderness had
''the sweet charm of a dream of lost youth'; during his lifetime it was one of his most popular plays.
Cast : 9M, 6F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-137-1 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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