Nick Hern Books, 2009

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (5), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Jerusalem, a bold comic vision of life in contemporary rural England, was first performed at the Royal Court, London, on 10 July 2009. Following ecstatic critical reception, it transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End on 28 January...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Acts: 1, Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...A short monologue first performed as part of the Ten by Twenty season at Atlantic Stage 2, the Atlantic Theater, New York, on 14 June 2006. Ken’s dog Dolly has gone missing. Without her, all he’s left with are his fading...

Nick Hern Books, 2013

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (6), Female (0), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...A slick, violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the1950s, Mojo premiered at the Royal Court, London, on 14 July 1995. It was a sensational debut, billed as the first time since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger that a first play...

Nick Hern Books, 2009

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

...A play about deceit, paranoia and murderous desire in leafy suburbia, Parlour Song was first performed at the Atlantic Theater, New York, on 15 Febraury 2008, before receiving its European premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 19...

Nick Hern Books, 2017

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (21), Female (7), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...Jez Butterworth's play The Ferryman is about a family whose life on a farm in rural Northern Ireland is disrupted when the past comes back to haunt them. It was first performed at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2024

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (22), Female (13), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...This house. It's called "Sea View". It's just I've looked out of every window, and you can't. You can't see the sea. Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Acts: 1, Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...A short monologue that was first performed as part of the 10 x 25 season at Atlantic Stage 2, the Atlantic Theater, New York, on 1 June 2011. A family gears up to catch Halley’s Comet as it passes through the night sky...

Nick Hern Books, 2002

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (9), Female (1), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...A darkly comic play about a group of outcasts gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens, The Night Heron was Jez Butterworth's first play to be staged after his debut, Mojo (Royal Court, 1995). Premiered at the Royal Court on 11 April 2002...

Nick Hern Books, 2012

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

...The River was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 18 October 2012. An intensely allusive, non-linear psychodrama, it was Jez Butterworth's first major play to be performed since Jerusalem (2009), which had also premiered...

Nick Hern Books, 2006

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...The Winterling was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 2 March 2006. Written with Jez Butterworth's characteristic flair, it is full of black humour, menace and mind-games. In a dilapidated farmhouse...