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Ronan O’Donnell
A
suspicious death at the workplace and loner security guard Nick Prentice is
hauled in Kafka style for interrogation. Detective Crichton believes he’s got
Prentice bang to rights. Nick’s handwritten seedy wee ‘stories’ seem to nail
him to the crime. Is Prentice complicit in the death of two-bit shoplifter Gary
Glover? Will Hollywood’s uber-babe Scarlett Johansson rescue our unlikely
antihero? David Lynch meets Rebus in this uproarious, underworld whodunnit,
reworking the hardboiled crime thriller for our times.
In
this intoxicating and vivid one-man show Ronan O’Donnell evokes both the stifling
claustrophobia of the interview room and Prentice’s skewed sense of logic with
an inimitable and visceral writing style. Brilliantly surreal and blackly
funny, Angels marks O’Donnell out as one of Scotland’s most exciting theatrical
voices.
By Ronan O'Donnell, available through Currency Press:
Cast : 1M
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Nick Hern Books UK | 978-1-84842-277-3 | Sales: Australia/NZ only | PB
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Caryl Churchill
Ten short plays for stage, radio and TV, selected by Caryl Churchill, opening up a little-known aspect of her writing, and demonstrating her considerable versatility and breadth of concern.
Featuring:
Abortive (Radio 3, 1971)
The After-Dinner Joke (BBC TV, 1978)
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
Hot Fudge (Royal Court Theatre, 1989)
The Judge's Wife (BBC TV, 1972)
Lovesick (Radio 3, 1967)
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen (Radio 3, 1971)
Schreber's Nervous Illness (Radio 3, 1972)
Seagulls
Three More Sleepless Nights (Soho Poly Theatre, 1980)
Includes an introduction by the author.
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-085-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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D. Grant (ed.)
A classic collection of new Irish playwriting from the end of the 1980s.
The volume contains:
The Lament for Arthur Cleary
by Dermot Bolger
'A love-poem to the City of Dublin, to its people, its streets, its housing estates, but above all to the indomitable Dublin spirit that is as unique as it is indefinable'
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Sunday Tribune
Low in the Dark
by Marina Carr
A mother and daughter bicker over who has just given birth; a couple discuss building walls and baking buns in the oven; and a man gets pregnant. This witty absurdist play by one of Ireland's leading woman playwrights dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.
Misogynist by Michael Harding
Written by 'one of the most significant new Irish writers of his generation' -
Sunday Times, and strongly influenced by religious and folk ritual, this near-monologue, full of erotic imagery, offers the opportunity for a tour-de-force for a male actor.
The Hamster Wheel
by Marie Jones.
When one partner in a marriage becomes unable to look after themselves and is completely dependent on the other, what happens to the relationship between them? This play covers an issue which is seldom talked about and creates 'a
powerful, wholly theatrical experience'
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Irish Times
Cast : The Lament for Arthur Cleary - 3M, 2F ; Low in the Dark - 2M, 3F ; Misogynist - 1M, 1F + optional female chorus ; The Hamster Wheel - 2M, 3F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-237-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Ella Hickson
Eight modern monologues which can be staged in any order: ideal for audition pieces and student drama groups
At the door of the theatre, you take a voting slip and chose your
company; selecting four from eight captivating monologues that offer a
group-portrait of diverse characters. From high-class hookers to 7/7
survivors these monologues paint a revelatory picture of Britain as it
is today.
Awards
- 2008 Edinburgh Festival - Fringe First and Best of the Festival
By Ella Hickson, also available through Currency Press:
Cast : 5M, 4F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-059-5 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Acts / One Good Beating / The Visitor
Galgani / McLean / Smith
A trilogy of short plays on the theme of family from three generations of Scottish writers
Acts, by Riccardo Galgani
An old couple have not seen their son in years. One day he walks back into their lives.
One Good Beating, by Linda McLean
A blackly comic account of a grown-up brother and sister who exact revenge on their violent father.
The Visitor, by Iain Crichton Smith
A schoolmaster on the verge of retirement is looking back on his career, when a knock on the door reveals a mysterious young man.
Cast : 2M, 2F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-438-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Being Friends / Lost / Making Noise Quietly
Robert Holman
An acclaimed trilogy of short plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives which can be performed separately or together.
Being Friends
Set in 1944. Two young men meet in a Kentish field as V2s whizz overhead. One is a farmer, the other an artist, but an intense bond forms between them
Lost
It is 1987, and May Appleton, whose son is serving in the Falklands, receives the visit that every mother dreads.
Making Noise Quietly
Set in the Black Forest in 1986, where a German businesswoman takes into her home a fugitive British private and his disturbed stepson.
Review
Charming, funny and faultless... a minor miracle -
Observer
Cast : Being Friends - 2M / Lost - 1M, 2F / Making Noise Quietly - 1M, 1F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-248-3 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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The Weir / Dublin Carol / Port Authority / Come on Over
Conor McPherson
The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author with an Afterword and in-depth author interview.
Featuring -
The Weir
Dublin Carol
Port Authority
Come on Over
Concerns a Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a ‘miracle’ in his home town, who re-encounters a woman who loved him thirty years before.
Review
The finest dramatist of his generation -
Telegraph
Conor McPherson: Four Plays, a collection of earlier plays, is also available.
Cast : Various
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-777-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Mojo Mickybo / The Waiting List / I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me
Owen McCafferty
Three astute, savvy early plays from Owen McCafferty.
Mojo Mickybo
A vibrant two-hander in which boyhood friends Mojo and Mickybo relive the summer of 1970 when they were growing up in Belfast, playing headers, building huts and re-enacting cowboy movies. This unsentimental portrayal of innocence betrayed by communal hatred, is ‘an energising reminder of the fact that all you need for truly magical theatre is a writer inspired by the thought of the stories that can be made on the stage’ -
Scotsman
It is published with two monologues.
The Waiting List
A man is under siege in the community where he grew up, which is ‘full of shocking home truths, made palatable by a witty, astute script’ -
Irish News
I Won’t Dance, Don’t Ask Me
‘a deeply affectionate and fiercely clear-eyed portrait of a recently unemployed middle-manager slowly losing his mind’ -
Sunday Tribune
Cast : Mojo Mickybo - 2M / The Waiting List 1M / I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me 1M
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-701-4 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Rachel Corrie
The moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist — adapted from her own letters, diaries and emails.
Rachel Corrie was born in 1979 in Washington State, USA. In 2003 she
went to the Gaza strip to protest about Israeli settlements. She was
crushed to death while standing in the path of a bulldozer destroying
Palestinian homes.
Why did a 23-year old woman leave her comfortable American life to
stand between and Israeli army bulldozer and a Palestinian home in the
Gaza strip?
Review
A deeply moving personal testimony... Theatre can’t change the
world. But what it can do, when it’s as good as this, is to send us out
enriched by other people’s passionate concern -
Guardian
Cast : 1F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-946-9 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Ayub Khan-Din
As his mother fades away, a son returns to the house where he grew up. It is empty, but full of reminders of how she once was. She, meanwhile, has her own foggy memories and feelings about why they try, but just can’t, communicate.
Review
Ayub Khan Din’s deeply moving new play lasts only 50 minutes, but it conjures up a world of loss, love and grief. At times the writing is as spare as Samuel Beckett’s, but there is also a warmth, and a vivid eye for detail, that make the piece overwhelming in its emotional impact -
Daily Telegraph
Cast : 1M, 1F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-804-2 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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