Currency Press
0
  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
    • Currency House
  • News
0
was successfully added to your cart.

Press enter to begin your search
Home Drama CLASS
CLASS

CLASS

$27.99

ISBN: 9781848427914
Author: By Iseult Golden, David Horan
Publication Date: 2/08/2018
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Extent: 96pp.
Availability: Available

Clear
SKU: BK1295 Categories: Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes Tag: Nick Hern Books
  • Details
  • Additional information

Brian and Donna’s son is nine years old and he’s struggling. That’s what his teacher says. Says he should see a psychologist. But Brian and Donna – recently separated – never liked school, never liked teachers.

An explosive triple confrontation that is funny, heartbreaking and beautifully observed, Iseult Golden and David Horan’s CLASS is an award-winning play about learning difficulties: in school, in life, wherever.

After a sold-out run in the Dublin Theatre Festival 2017, the play transferred to the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in January 2018 before playing in the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018.

CLASS won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award and was named Best Theatre Script at the 2018 ZeBBie Awards awarded by the Writers Guild of Ireland.

‘A passionate 21st-century tragedy… an utterly credible, humorous yet heartbroken snapshot of a western culture in which, for some men, issues of gender, class and power can now form an utterly toxic mix of rage, resentment and desperation’
— Scotsman

‘Intelligent and compelling… rivetingly escalates in tension, bringing resentments about educational authority figures, working-class alienation and gender differences to the fore… a valuable piece’
— Telegraph

‘Explores the uncertain territory where prejudice, damage and failed intentions collide’
— Guardian

‘A play that kicks against an exclusionary establishment in miniature: the school a microcosm of a middle-class order’
— WhatsOnStage

‘Adeptly demonstrates the stakes that both teachers and parents can have in a child’s well-being and the stresses that teachers are placed under’
— The Stage

‘An inspired look at society through the prism of a parent-teacher meeting’
— Sunday Times Ireland

Best Theatre Script, ZeBBie Awards, Writers Guild of Ireland

Edinburgh Fringe First Award

Additional information

formats

ePub, Mobi, Print

More Titles To Explore

  • Habibti Driver
    $24.99
    Nick Hern Books

    Habibti Driver

    Select options
  • Accidental Death of an Anarchist
    $24.99
    Nick Hern Books

    Accidental Death of an Anarchist

    Select options
  • Why Is That So Funny?
    $31.99
    Acting and audition, Directing and Theatremaking, Nick Hern Books

    Why Is That So Funny?

    Select options
  • Shakespeare On Stage
    $31.99
    Acting and audition, Directing and Theatremaking, History and Criticism, Nick Hern Books, Shakespeare, Theatre

    Shakespeare On Stage

    Select options
  • Perve
    $29.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes

    Perve

    Select options
  • Alexander Technique for Actors: A Practical Course
    $31.99
    Acting and audition, Dance and Movement, Nick Hern Books

    Alexander Technique for Actors: A Practical Course

    Select options
  • Junkyard
    $27.99
    Drama, Full-length, Musicals / plays with music, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes, Young adult

    Junkyard

    Select options
  • The Authorised Kate Bane
    $29.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Significant female role/s

    The Authorised Kate Bane

    Select options
  • 2nd May 1997
    $25.99
    Diverse sexuality themes, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes, Young adult

    2nd May 1997

    Select options
  • 9781848429437
    $27.99
    Drama, Monologues, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    Zoo and Twelve Comic Monologues for Women

    Select options
  • Bangers
    $24.99
    Nick Hern Books

    Bangers

    Select options
  • Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford-Clark
    $31.99
    Directing and Theatremaking, Nick Hern Books

    Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford-Clark

    Select options
Previous - Next

Search titles

Product categories

  • Acting and audition 119
  • Activities and Games 15
  • Adaptations 159
  • Australian history 59
  • Australian Screen Classics 14
  • Auto/biography 13
  • Award winning 79
  • Black comedy 25
  • CALD writer 25
  • Children’s theatre 36
  • Comedy 265
  • Cross-artform plays 3
  • Currency Press 526
  • Dance and Movement 18
  • Directing and Theatremaking 76
  • Diverse sexuality themes 81
  • Drama 1340
  • Education 13
  • Epic 18
  • Farce 10
  • Full-length 677
  • Gender themes 119
  • Gift Cards 6
  • History and Criticism 26
  • Indigenous playwrights 38
  • Indigenous themes 60
  • Internationally produced 5
  • Monologues 41
  • Multicultural themes 99
  • Music 11
  • Musicals / plays with music 68
  • Mystery 25
  • Naturalism / realism 40
  • New Releases 11
  • Nick Hern Books 1294
  • One-act play 27
  • Physical theatre 9
  • Platform Papers 56
  • Play Collections 105
  • Plays 1397
  • Plays by women 274
  • Poetic 37
  • Political / social themes 443
  • Satire 23
  • Screen books 9
  • Screenplays 7
  • Shakespeare 50
  • Short play under 15 minutes 14
  • Significant female role/s 365
  • Solo performer 65
  • Surreal / magic realism 96
  • Theatre 65
  • Two-hander 66
  • Uncategorized 1
  • Verbatim / close work theatre 20
  • Very short play under 15 minutes 2
  • Voice and performance skills 16
  • What's on stage in 2025 10
  • Whats On Stage 1
  • Writers and Writing 19
  • Young adult 207

Newsletter

Signup to our Newsletter

Select list(s) to subscribe to


By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Currency Press. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact

Links

Contact Us
Booksellers
History
Performance Rights
New Releases
Scripts

Links

The Currency Award
Authors
Submissions
Privacy Policy
Whats On Stage
Writers and Writing
Currency Press acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as this country’s first storytellers. Sovereignty has never been ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.

© 2025 Currency Press. All Rights Reserved.

  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
    • Currency House
  • News
  • Account details
  • Orders
  • Addresses
  • Payment methods
  • Lost password
  • Login
  • Logout

Contact Us

Phone: +61 2 9319 5877

Mailing Address:
Suite 310, 46-56 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010

Street Address:
Suite 310, 46-56 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
ABN: 75 000 938 929

General Enquiries:
[email protected]

Trade Enquiries: [email protected]

Cart

Search

2020 Copyright Currency Press