Nick Hern Books, 2009

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

...Jack Thorne's play 2nd May 1997 is a drama set over the course of the 1997 UK General Election in which the Labour Party under the leadership of Tony Blair won a landslide victory over the Conservatives. The play presents three separate...

Nick Hern Books, 2021

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (14), Female (6), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...If you could spend eternity with just one precious memory, what would it be? A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged...

Nick Hern Books, 2023

NHB Modern Plays

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

...Jack Thorne's short play Boo is a monologue play exploring the impact of the newly established National Health Service on working people's lives. It was first performed by Sophie Stone as part of The Greatest Wealth: In Celebration...

Nick Hern Books, 2010

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

...Jack Thorne's Bunny is a coming-of-age drama for a solo female performer that tackles teenage sexuality, racism and gang culture. It was first produced by nabokov and Escalator East to Edinburgh in association with Watford Palace Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (28), Female (9), Male (19), Unassigned (0)

...Jack Thorne's Burying Your Brother in the Pavement is a play that tackles the story of a teenage boy grieving for his dead brother with emotional honesty and imaginative flair. Written specifically for young people, it was commissioned...

Nick Hern Books, 2007

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

...Jack Thorne's play Fanny and Faggot presents two distinct moments in the life of Mary Bell, the eleven-year-old Newcastle girl who was convicted of the manslaughter of two toddlers in 1968. It was first performed at the Finborough Theatre...

Faber and Faber, 2011

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (33), Female (13), Male (19), Unassigned (1)

...What on earth is happening to our planet? And who knows what to do? Certainties are few: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is continual and inevitable...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 46, Roles: Total (10), Female (6), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Jack Thorne's play Hope is about the pressures on a local council to carry out funding cuts imposed by the government. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 26 November 2014. The play's action...

Nick Hern Books, 2017

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Jack Thorne's Junkyard is a play, with music by Stephen Warbeck, about the creation of a playground out of junk. It was first performed at Bristol Old Vic Theatre on 2 March 2017 (previews from 24 February), in a co-production between...

Nick Hern Books, 2012

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Jack Thorne's Mydidae is a play for two actors that lays bare a complex relationship over twenty-four hours. It was commissioned by DryWrite theatre company and first performed at Soho Theatre, London, on 5 December 2012...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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

...Jack Thorne's Red Car, Blue Car is a short play about guilt, grief and responsibility. It was written for and first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, as part of their Where’s My Seat? season, in June 2011. The play...

Nick Hern Books, 2007

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

...Jack Thorne's Stacy is a sexually explicit confessional monologue for one male performer and a slide projector. It was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, on 6 February 2007. The play is performed by an actor...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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

...Jack Thorne’s play the end of history... is a domestic drama focussing on the lives of two political idealists and their children. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 27 June 2019. The play is set...

Nick Hern Books, 2023

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (18), Female (6), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new production of Hamlet under the exacting direction of John Gielgud. But as rehearsals...

Nick Hern Books, 2015

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

...Jack Thorne's The Solid Life of Sugar Water is an intimate, tender play about a couple grieving for their stillborn child. It was first performed at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, on 8 June 2015 before transferring to the Pleasance Dome,...

Nick Hern Books, 2023

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (31), Female (9), Male (22), Unassigned (0)

...Jack Thorne’s play When Winston Went To War With The Wireless is a historical drama about the birth of the BBC and its efforts to stay impartial. It was first performed on 13 June 2023 (previews from 2 June).  ...

Nick Hern Books, 2005

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Jack Thorne’s debut play When You Cure Me is a drama about being very young and in love – and coping with serious illness at the same time. It received its first workshops as part of the National Youth Theatre’s Short Nyts season in August...

Nick Hern Books, 2023

NHB Modern Plays

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

...Jack Thorne's short play Whiff Whaff is a satire about attitudes to disability and mental health. It was first performed by Theatre Uncut at Southwark Playhouse, London, in March 2011.   The play is a two-hander...

Nick Hern Books, 2017

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Georg Buchner's play Woyzeck is one of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre. Based on a real-life murder trial that took place in Germany in the 1820s, the play was written in 1837, but left incomplete at the author...