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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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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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Emma Frost
A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future. Lucy thinks she's finally cracked the love thing. Joe, her handsome American boyfriend is moving over to London. So how come he seems to be heading for the emergency exit? Lucy's best friend Scarlet is on an endless carousel of losers, users and married men. Her Dad just thinks we're all better off flying solo.
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Wincingly funny -
Independent
Cast : 3M, 2F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-774-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Jonathan Lewis and Miranda Foster
Digby is agonising over his Desert Island Discs selection, while Greg can’t take the pressure of being down to the last two for a new regular on EastEnders. Mel is refusing to speak to her Ex, while Paddy is pretending to be a banker. But more important things could be at stake as the group prepare to go on strike in order to protect their livelihoods... But will anyone take a bunch of actors seriously?
Set in the heart of Soho,
All Mouth is a wry eavesdrop on the unseen voice-over world, the people behind the voices, and the machinations of the studios and of the ad agencies to which they are all in thrall.
Cast : 1M, 4F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-593-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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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.
Cast : 5M, 3F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-200-2 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Linda McLean
Bill and Sadie, in late middle age, live a fortress existence in their flat in the city. A stone comes through the window. Bill goes to get some bread and fails to take his keys, leaving Sadie perilously alone. Meanwhile their niece, Jackie, is deciding not to visit them after all…
Often hilarious, ultimately chilling,
Any Given Day is a deliberately heightened riff on urban isolation. A searing, poetic and hard-hitting exploration of our fear of the unknown and responsibility towards ourselves and others, from one of Scotland’s leading playwrights.
Cast : 2F, 3M
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Nick Hern Books, UK | 978-1-84842-093-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Rona Munro
Renee is a gritty,
glamorous aviator; the fastest, highest, bravest woman in the world, but with
one last race to go: to dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable
stars. If NASA will let her – and Congress plays ball. But what will such an
endeavour mean in the international flight community, and what toll will it
take on her body and soul?
Cast : 2M, 3F
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Nick Hern Books UK | 978-1-84842-304-6 | Sales: Australia/NZ only | `PB
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Ella Hickson
Kate Bane returns home to her parents for a winter weekend to introduce her new boyfriend. As the snow falls, Kate finds herself searching with increasing desperation for the truth about her family’s past. Are her memories fact, or are they continually shifting acts of imagination?
Cast : 1M, 3F
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Nick Hern Books UK | 978-1-84842-309-1 | Sales: Australia/NZ only | 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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Stella Feehily
Stella Feehily brings her trademark wit and emotional insight to this revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs, and is drawn directly from workshops and interviews with aid workers, doctors, human rights defenders, government advisers, journalists and photographers.
A seasoned human rights defender and her idealistic young colleague embark on a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. For Mathilde, it’s an induction into a life less ordinary. For Sadhbh it’s back to madness and chaos away from her lover and London – exactly as she likes it.
But while Mathilde lets off steam with a photographer and a spliff, Sadhbh has her own encounter: tea with a smart but brutal young warlord she’s investigating. Or is it the other way round?
Cast : 4M, 4F (1 child ; doubling possible)
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Nick Hern Books, UK | 978-1-84842-211-7 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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