Nick Hern Books, 2015

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

...Robert Holman's play A Breakfast of Eels is a two-hander about two young men trying to find their way in the world after the death of the man they thought of as their father. It was first performed at the Print Room at the Coronet, London...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...On a farm in the north-east of England, four generations gather in an epic play about hope, love, fear and the end of the world. A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky is a refreshingly subtle...

Nick Hern Books, 1998

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Robert Holman's Bad Weather is a play exploring the nature of violence and the possibility of redemption. It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 22 April 1998...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

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

...Robert Holman's play German Skerries is a portrait of life in industrial Teesside in the North of England in the 1970s. It won the 1977 George Devine Award, and was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, on 25 January 1977...

Nick Hern Books, 2003

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Robert Holman's play Holes in the Skin is about a group of troubled teenagers, and their equally disturbed adult counterparts, struggling to connect with one another on a deprived housing estate in North Yorkshire. It was first performed...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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

...Robert Holman’s Jonah and Otto is a play for two actors exploring a fleeting moment of connection between very different men struggling to find the courage to continue. It was first performed in The Studio at the Royal Exchange Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2012

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Robert Holman's trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly, explores the devastating impact of war on ordinary lives. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, on 26 June 1986. In the first play, Being Friends,...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Robert Holman's play Mud is his earliest full-length play (although it was first staged shortly after the play he wrote subsequently, The Natural Cause). Mud was first performed under the title Taking Stock at the Royal Court Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Robert Holman's play Other Worlds is a historical drama set in an eighteenth-century fishing community on the isolated North Yorkshire coast, during the time of a threatened invasion by France. It was first performed at the Royal Court...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...George Orwell wrote that to be inside the whale, like Jonah, ‘is a very comfortable, cosy, homelike thought.’ Holman’s play shows Orwell outside the whale, in squalor and poverty and hunger. It is a fictional account of the time Orwell...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...The globe is flooded into a surreal and empty landscape on which five people drift, trying to find ways to love each other. The play opens with Hetty, frozen in the bathroom, desperate to wash her hands. Her husband Leo...

Nick Hern Books, 2021

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Robert Holman’s play The Lodger is a drama about identity, maturity and reconciliation. It was first performed at The Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill, London, on 10 September 2021.   The play opens in the basement...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (14), Female (4), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Robert Holman's play The Natural Cause is a dark and disturbing portrait of mental illness, and its effects on a young family. It was first performed at the Cockpit Theatre, London, on 27 May 1974. Although written after his earlier play...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (1)

...Robert Holman's play The Overgrown Path is a drama about history, the atomic bomb, and the stories we tell each other to make sense of ourselves. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 31 May 1985...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (15), Female (6), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Robert Holman's play Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self, set against the backdrop of Depression-era England and the Spanish Civil War. It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company...