Love and Other Acts of Violence (NHB Modern Plays), Paperback - Cordelia Lynn

A young Jewish physicist and an activist poet meet at a party and fall in love. As society splinters around them, the couple's struggle to survive ...

Alex and Rupert show all the signs of a normal family in waiting but, when their baby is born still, their world implodes. What follows is a window...

This thrilling stage adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray follows one man's descent from glorious debauchery to epic self-destruction, intertwi...

The myths of Metamorphoses have inspired generations of writers, including Shakespeare. Over two thousand years later, they are reimagined for our ...

Up-and-coming comics Alex and Ben have been booked in the warm-up spot for a beloved but fading double act's comeback tour. Neither is delighted to...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

When a woman receives an unexpected letter from the British Passport Office, she is forced to confront an old mystery: why does her South African p...

Across Edinburgh, five souls stagger towards each other, hoping to be transformed. Full of tenderness and humour, Frances Poet's play Still is a ca...

It's been thirty years since former flames Alex and Jason last saw each other. With their carefree university days long behind them, the student re...

August Wilson's groundbreaking modern classic explores the fragile bond between eight men as they live, love and work in a racially segregated, pos...

Set against a backdrop of precarious lives in urban London, two headliners crossfade between stories of love, sex, and losing their creative spark....

A witty and sensitive portrayal of managing mental health within a family, highlighting the barriers we put up in order to put on a brave face.Publ...

Tunde's thirtieth birthday is fast approaching. So he's started therapy because he hasn't been able to get to the gym for weeks, and a recent one-n...

Four generations of black men are trying to understand themselves in a world which tells them they have to be strong. Inspired by real-life testimo...

Using real-life stories, imagined worlds and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage, Chinonyerem Odimba's Black Love is an explosion of form-busting...

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and ...

2024. As America goes to the polls, democracy itself is on the brink. Who takes the White House - and at what cost? Mike Bartlett's viciously funny...

A new play telling the remarkable true story of an inspiring and brilliant woman. Forever on the right side of history, but on the wrong side of li...

Electric Rosary is a sharp, timely and gloriously funny play, asking what faith really means in the age of artificial intelligence and what it is t...

Helen, along with sixty-seven million other people, is in lockdown. Unfortunately, Helen's neighbour, Mrs Delgado, is not. Mike Bartlett's funny an...

Sonny is twelve. Living with a stammer, he is finding his way in a world ruled by vicious vowels, confusing consonants, and the biggest beast of al...

Publisher: Nick Hern BooksAuthor(s): John RwothomackNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 13Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Alecky Blythe's engrossing verbatim play tells the stories of a generation. Created from five years of interviews with twelve young people from acr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. Eventually i...

Politics and the planet collide in Marek Horn's fiercely original new play Yellowfin, a bitingly funny exploration of the limits of science, the po...

An enlightening, cathartic and acerbic play about identity, maturity and reconciliation.Publisher: Nick Hern BooksAuthor(s): Robert HolmanNumber of...

Publisher: Nick Hern BooksAuthor(s): Igor MemicNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

A dinner party during the Second World War unites celebrated writers Agatha Christie, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. ...

Publisher: Nick Hern BooksAuthor(s): Aleshea HarrisNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 198 x 13Cover type: Paperback / soft...

An unexpectedly optimistic portrayal of love and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit. Lola is sixteen years old and has her whole life...

The Southbury Child is a darkly comic play exploring family and community, the savage divisions of contemporary society, and the rituals that punct...

Zana Fraillon's powerful and deeply moving novel about the displacement and treatment of refugees and sanctuary seekers, has been widely read and s...

Publisher: Nick Hern BooksAuthor(s): Sonali BhattacharyyaNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 18Cover type: Paperback /...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

When his friend becomes embroiled in a rape allegation, Chris Quinn offers his support. Only the rules keep changing, nothing is clear-cut, and Chr...

Jeremy Sams' stage play, based on the hugely popular sitcom by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, reunites the well-loved characters as they get themselv...

A tie-in edition of the smash-hit stage adaptation - with a twist - of the Jane Austen classic. Published alongside the West End production at the ...

Filled with Tom Wells' trademark witty and wonderful dialogue, Jumpers for Goalposts is a big-hearted romcom for the stage; a life-affirming testam...

An unflinching look at race in the twenty-first century.Thirty-somethings Leo, Misha, Ralph and Dawn have been inseparable since college. Their con...

It's Presidential Election Night 2016. As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton go head to head, the entire world holds its breath. Except for Vera. She...

In her award-winning memoir Here If You Need Me, " Kate Braestrup won the hearts of readers across the country with her deeply moving and deftly hu...

...cake is a psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging ...

Five ambitious and exciting plays by the multi-award-winning playwright, hailed as 'one of the prime movers in a new golden generation of British p...

Two young people and their daemons find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and i...

Jenny and Sam have moved into their new home. But something feels frightening and wrong. Very wrong. Over the baby monitor, at 2: 22 every night, J...

Charles Dickens' timeless classic, brought to life in a joyous adaptation by Jack Thorne.Publisher: Nick Hern BooksNumber of pages: 96Publication d...