NICK HERN BOOKS

(P/B) FLEABAG
Celebrate the incredible journey of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's outrageously funny, blazingly forthright Fleabag, from fringe theatre hit to international cultural phenomenon, in this special edition - featuring the original playscript, never-before-seen colour photos, and exclusive bonus content by Phoebe, director Vicky Jones and key members of the creative team. In 2013, Fleabag made its debut as a one-woman show in sixty-seater venue the Big Belly, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's Underbelly. It was an immediate hit, going on to enjoy two...
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(P/B) LABAN FOR ALL
Laban for All offers a simplified version of Rudolf Laban's system for analysing - and annotating - the way the human being moves. It can be used by relative beginners upwards. The reader is introduced to the language and terms of Laban, with each new concept accompanied by very specific, clearly illustrated exercises - each designed to strengthen and deepen our understanding. When the basic vocabulary has been explained and demonstrated, its expressive possibilities in drama and dance are further explored. The result is a thorough - and t...
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(P/B) LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
An intensely autobiographical, magnificently tragic portrait of O'Neill's own family; a play so acutely personal that he insisted it was not published until after his death. Long Day's Journey into Night is a true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, and has been described as a dark side to the earlier play Ah! Wilderness. One single day in the Tyrones' Connecticut home. James Tyrone Snr. is a miser, a talented actor who even squanders his talent in an undemanding role; eldest son Jamie is an affabl...
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(P/B) HANDBOOK OF ACTING TECHNIQUES
A unique survey of the twentieth century's most influential acting methods, offering invaluable practical insights for actors and drama teachers. Each of the ten famous techniques included in this handbook is described in detail by one of today's foremost practitioners. Each chapter outlines the development of the respective technique and offers practical guidance for actors wishing to explore it for themselves. (From the publisher)...
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VOLPONE
Jonson's comic masterpiece whichh illustrates the manipulations and schemes people concoct out of greed....
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THE MAMMARY PLAYS
Two plays by a leading American dramatist, which together provide mirror-image investigations of coming of age in the sixties. How I Learned to Drive is a Lolita-like tale of female sexual awakening under the watchful eye - and hands - of a largely sympathetic 'uncle'. It was premiered off-Broadway in March 1997, and went on to win the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. The Mineola Twins is an outrageously satirical play examining women's experience and the women's movement over more than three decades in post-World War II America, as seen through the l...
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(P/B) FREEING SHAKESPEARE'S VOICE
A practical approach to breaking through the barriers of restraint and incomprehension when faced with Shakespeare. Taking many of the techniques explored in her international bestseller Freeing The Natural Voice, in this companion volume Kristin Linklater shows how to apply them to the exploration and speaking of Shakespeare's language. Beginning with exercises designed to break long-held habits and allow an emotional rather than intellectual relationship to Elizabethan language, she analyses Shakespeare's strategies for creating characte...
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(P/B) COST OF LIVING
John, a wealthy, brilliant, and successful PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a recent graduate who has fallen on hard times, as his new carer. Across town, truck driver Eddie attempts to support and re-engage with his estranged wife, Ani, following a terrible accident that has left her quadriplegic. As four very different lives collide and entwine, roles are unapologetically flipped, reversed and exposed - who is actually caring for whom?Martyna Majok's exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny new play Cost of Living explor...
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(P/B) THE ACTOR AND THE TARGET
A revised and updated edition of Declan Donnellan's bestselling book, a fresh and radical approach to acting by a world-famous director. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FREEING THE NATURAL VOICE
The classic voice-training book for actors, teachers of voice and speech and anyone interested in vocal expression - by a pre-eminent voice teacher, actor and director. Fully revised and expanded edition. Linklater's approach is to liberate the voice you have rather than apply vocal techniques from the outside. Her basic assumption is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing whatever emotion, mood or thought he/she experiences. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE COMPLETE BRECHT TOOLKIT
A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's history and practice of theatre. The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many, sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre - and how he put them into practice. Here are explanations of all the famous key terms, such as Alienation Effect, Epic Theatre and Gestus, as well as many others which go to make up what we think of as 'Brechtian theatre'. There follows a section which looks at the practical application of these theories in Act...
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(P/B) THE ANTIPODES
A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for the monstrous. Part satire, part sacred rite, Annie Baker's play The Antipodes asks what value stories have for a world in crisis. First seen at Signature Theatre, New York, in 2017, the play had its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2019. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
What's the point in having a wicked past if you're going to keep it secret? Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance? (From the publis...
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(P/B) STONES IN HIS POCKETS & A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER
Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in Stones in His Pockets - a hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End. A two-man show about the filming of a Hollywood epic in rural Ireland, Stones in His Pockets features a pair of film extras, Charlie and Jake, who tell the story by taking on all the roles themselves. 'An unalloyed source of joy, laughter, tears and delight... Marie Jones's script digs deep and dark while giving us two hours of serious pleasure' Daily Mail 'Jones builds an astonishingly complete, acu...
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(P/B) MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA
A trilogy of full-length plays reworking themes from Greek tragedy, particularly the Oresteia of Aeschylus, relocated to New England in 1865, just after the end of the Civil War. Lavinia Mannon (Electra) dotes on her father Ezra (Agamemnon), who has just returned victorious from the war, and despises her mother Christine (Clytemnestra) - especially since Catherine has been making a cuckold of Ezra with Lavinia's ex-suitor, Adam. Lavinia's brother Orin (Orestes), on the other hand, war-wounded and weak, idolises his mother and resents his o...
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(P/B) DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

(P/B) AMERICAN THEATRE BOOK OF MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN
A volume of audition pieces selected from the best new American plays of the last 15 years. This selection of monologue material has been drawn from the ninety new plays published in American Theatre magazine over the last 15 years. Authors include Edward Albee, Eric Bogosian, Richard Greenberg, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Steve Martin, Richard Nelson, Sam Shepard, Paula Vogel, Naomi Wallace, Wendy Wasserstein and George C. Wolfe. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) TRIBES
A penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication. BEST NEW PLAY, OFF WEST END THEATRE AWARDS Billy's family, like every other, is a club, with its own private language, jokes and rules. You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as critical as you like. Arguments are an expression of love, and after all, you love each other more than anyone in the world. Don't you? But Billy, who is deaf, is the only one who actually listens. When he meets Sylvia, he decides he finally wants to be heard. (Fro...
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(P/B) KEVIN ELYOT: FOUR PLAYS
A collection of plays from the acclaimed author of My Night With Reg, spanning twenty years of work from a playwright who brilliantly captured the comedy of pain. Included in this volume are: Coming Clean (Bush Theatre, London, 1982), Elyot's first play, winner of the Samuel Beckett Award, an examination of infidelity within a gay relationship. 'A very funny and acute comedy about the gay life' Sunday Times. 'In time, it will be recognised as the first mature play about homosexuality' Mail on Sunday My Night With Reg (Royal Court Theatre, ...
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(P/B) DIFFERENT EVERY NIGHT
A top-ranking director sets out his rehearsal techniques in this invaluable handbook for actors and directors. Different Every Night is the culmination of a lifetime of work in the theatre, the most complete rehearsal methodology in print since Stanislavsky. It offers a vital masterclass for actors and directors, full of sound practical advice and guidance, and is packed with techniques for bringing the text to life and keeping it alive - both in rehearsal and performance. (From the publisher)...
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