Nick Hern Books, 2023

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (87), Female (38), Male (43), Unassigned (6)

...Packed with songs, mischief and mistaken identities, this riotous and joyful play transports Shakespeare's most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital. Romeo and Jules are recovering from an accidental...

Nick Hern Books, 2020

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (21), Female (9), Male (7), Unassigned (5)

...’Oh, if you knew the lives we women lead You'd understand the Devil is a catch.’ In this radical reimagining of the classic cautionary tale, Johanna Faustus makes the ultimate...

Nick Hern Books, 2021

NHB Modern Plays

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Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (2), Female (2), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Chris Bush's play Hungry is a two-hander that tells the story of a relationship between two women from very different backgrounds, both of whom work in the food industry. It explores love, class, grief and attitudes to what we eat...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (8), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Paper is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.   The three plays were commissioned as part...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (8), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Rock is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.   The three plays were commissioned as part...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (8), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Scissors is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.   The three plays were commissioned as part...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (27), Female (12), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...Standing at the Sky's Edge is a musical with a book by playwright Chris Bush, set to songs by singer-songwriter Richard Hawley. A history of modern Britain told through the stories of one Sheffield housing estate, it charts the hopes...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...‘I am the Labour Party candidate. Now ask me why.’‘Why?’‘Because I am the best damn person for the job.’ The top candidate without question, Vanessa was made to be Mayor. Thirty years prior, Josie just wants things...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 39, Roles: Total (46), Female (17), Male (28), Unassigned (1)

...A shocking crime divides the nation. Fingers are pointed, sides are drawn, facts are hard to come by. Why did this happen? How do we move on? What must we remember? It's easy to have an opinion online, safe behind the anonymity...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

NHB Modern Plays

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Scenes: 5

...‘We stand on the edge On the threshold of On the entrance to Stepping out from...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

NHB Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)