Nick Hern Books, 2012

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Ella Hickson's play Boys is about a group of young men making the tricky transition from university to adult life. It was first performed at the HighTide Festival, Halesworth, Suffolk, on 3 May 2012, before transferring to the Nuffield...

Nick Hern Books, 2009

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Ella Hickson's Eight is a play comprising eight monologues which together offer a state-of-the-nation group portrait of a generation growing up amidst a consumerist boom. It was first performed at Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, during...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Ella Hickson’s short play Gift was first performed as part of Decade, a cycle of plays commissioned and produced by Headlong, at Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London, on 1 September 2011. The play is set...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Ella Hickson’s Hot Mess is a dark, lyrical play about twins who share a single heart, examining contemporary society's paradoxical need for emotional connection and sex without emotional investment. It was first performed at the Hawke &...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Ella Hickson's Oil is a play about the global implications of our dependency on oil, and tackles subjects including empire, energy and the environment, as well as mother-daughter relationships. It was first performed at the Almeida Theatre,...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

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

...Ella Hickson’s short play PMQ, created with Gwendolen Chatfield, was first performed as part of Coalition at Theatre503, London, in November 2010. The play is set in a Westminster dressing room, where Prime Minister Dave...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Ella Hickson's Precious Little Talent is a play about the struggle of young people in their twenties to find their way in an increasingly hostile world. It was first performed at the Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, on 6 August 2009, as part...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

NHB Modern Plays

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Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (9), Female (6), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country. Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England. And she reigned for forty-four years...

Nick Hern Books, 2012

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Ella Hickson’s The Authorised Kate Bane is a play about families and how we're defined by shared family memories, both real and invented. It was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 12 October 2012 in a production by Grid...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Ella Hickson’s play The Writer is a meta-theatrical drama about a young writer who challenges the status quo but discovers that creative gain comes at a personal cost. It was first performed at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 24 April 2018...

Nick Hern Books, 2015

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (22), Female (8), Male (11), Unassigned (3)

...Ella Hickson's version of J.M. Barrie's much-loved story puts the character of Wendy firmly centre stage and is thoroughly modern in tone, but retains much of the detail of Barrie's original play and subsequent novel. It was commissioned...