Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel is a multi-award-winning play about the empowerment of Esther, a seamstress in 1905 New York who creates exquisite lingerie for both Fifth Avenue boudoirs and Tenderloin bordellos.
A top-ranking director sets out his rehearsal techniques in this invaluable handbook for actors and directors.
An invaluable and authoritative guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing Timberlake Wertenbaker's play, Our Country's Good.
Mike Bartlett's 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family.
Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.
Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author.
The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, exploring corruption and morality, and bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
Fifty fantastic speeches for women, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most exciting dramatic voices. In the Nick Hern Books Good Audition Guides series.
A practical approach to breaking through the barriers of restraint and incomprehension when faced with Shakespeare.
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny play that explores our need to connect and be loved regardless of the gulfs that disability, race, class, and wealth place between us.
A kaleidoscopic exploration of cultural progress, an interrogation of gender and privilege, and a wilfully ignorant history of English Literature.
Part satire, part sacred rite, a play that asks what value stories have for a world in crisis.