Nick Hern Books, 2010

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010. The theft of a single rose has monstrous...

Nick Hern Books, 2010

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (15), Female (10), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Lucy Kirkwood’s Bloody Wimmin is a short play written for the Tricycle Theatre’s Women, Power and Politics season, staged at the Tricycle, London, in June–July 2010. The play examines the impact of the 1980s Greenham Common protests...

Nick Hern Books, 2013

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 38, Roles: Total (33), Female (16), Male (17), Unassigned (0)

...A powerful play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West, Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica is both a political examination and an engaging personal drama. Tiananmen Square, 1989...

Nick Hern Books, 2009

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

...Lucy Kirkwood's it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now is a play about modern-day sex trafficking. It was commissioned by Clean Break and first performed by the company at the Arcola Theatre in London on 7 October...

Nick Hern Books, 2017

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (12), Female (8), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Lucy Kirkwood's Mosquitoes is a play about families and particle physics. It was first performed in the Dorfman auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 25 July 2017 (previews from 18 July). The play revolves around...

Nick Hern Books, 2012

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

...Lucy Kirkwood's NSFW is a comedy satirising media attitudes to sexuality and personal privacy. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs on 25 October 2012. The first part...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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

...Lucy Kirkwood’s play Rapture is a slippery metatheatrical thriller about love, power and belief. It was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, on 10 June 2022. It was promoted by the theatre under...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

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

...small hours is a collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell. It explores, in a direct and immersive way, the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

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

...Lucy Kirkwood's play The Children is a near-future drama about the aftermath of a catastrophe at a nuclear power station, exploring the responsibilities we have towards future generations. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2020

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (19), Female (16), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she's telling...

Nick Hern Books, 2008

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (10), Female (1), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Lucy Kirkwood’s first full-length play, Tinderbox is a dystopian comedy set in a Bradford butcher's shop in a future version of England that is afflicted by riots and separated from Scotland by a 38-mile-wide Hadrian's Channel. The play...