Nick Hern Books, 2019

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (41), Female (14), Male (27), Unassigned (0)

...Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing...

Nick Hern Books, 2022

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (41), Female (14), Male (27), Unassigned (0)

...Helen Edmundson’s stage adaptation of Andrea Levy's 2004 novel Small Island is an epic historical drama tracing its characters from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 – the year that HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.  ...

Nick Hern Books, 2021

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 26, Roles: Total (23), Female (10), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...The Long Song is a historical drama about the final turbulent days of slavery on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica, based on Andrea Levy's 2010 novel of the same name, adapted for the stage by Suhayla El-Bushra.  ...