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As passions and priorities collide, the two of them are forced to reckon with divisions of race and class, and the bravery it takes to love unconditionally.

Harrison David Rivers’s play This Bitter Earth is an intimate, romantic and gripping drama that explores what it means to love outside the box. It premiered at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, San Francisco, in 2017. This edition was published alongside its production at Soho Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Billy Porter and starring Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln.

ISBN: 9781839044885

Number of pages: 88

RRP: £10.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

Three friends grow up under an ancient tree. They’re filthy, brutal and full of hope. By turns hysterical and poignant, Playfight is a ‘stunningly accomplished’ (★★★★★ Observer) and searing probe of their inner lives as they hunt for love. Proper, ugly love. As their roots sink deeper, the branches stretch higher… so they decide to climb.

An Edinburgh Festival smash hit, Playfight is a ‘marvellous jewel of a play’ (★★★★★ Times) that shines a vivid light on adolescent desire in a landscape of rising sexual violence.

But today, her regular routine of wildfires, Prosecco and teeth whitening descends into a scorched earth catastrophe, before she discovers something that will save us all.

A dizzying rampage into the warped soul of America, Weather Girl is a blistering dark comedy about wrecking the places we love. It was first performed by Julia McDermott at Summerhall during the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, directed by Tyne Rafaeli and produced by Francesca Moody Productions, winning an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the 2024 Popcorn Writing Award and a Summerhall Lustrum Award.

ISBN: 9-781839-043888

Number of pages: 48

RRP: £10.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

Skin? Glowing.

Vibes? Immaculate.

Nathaniel is a serious romantic who sees love as a fine art. He’s looking for the Mona Lisa to his da Vinci, and tonight is the night: his date with Destiny…’s Child.

Winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022, Nathan Queeley-Dennis’ debut play explores Black masculinity.

ISBN: 978-0573000355

Number of pages: 60

RRP: £10.99

Published by Samuel French

What would you take if you were forced to leave home with no hope of returning? How would you make a fresh start somewhere completely new? This is the true story of one woman who loses everything.

Remembering the tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen with live cooking on stage, she recreates the dishes of her childhood and homeland, building a new life and community around food.

Written by award-winning Hannah Khalil from the story by Atoosa Sepehr, the life-affirming My English Persian Kitchen chronicles the journey of one woman’s quest to start again.

This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere Soho Theatre and Traverse Theatre co-production in 2024.

ISBN: 978-1-350-52588-7

Number of pages: 56

RRP: £10.99

Published by Methuen Drama

Or, be a butterfly dreaming of being ‘Chinese’….

The ‘British Chinese’

So often regarded as a ‘model minority’

Quiet, high-achieving, polite, invisible…

But when someone who is ‘British Chinese’ spends their life taking drugs, getting thrown out of school, claiming benefits, being chased in stolen cars, getting locked up, then rehabilitating onto the stage, where do they fit in?

Oh, and they’re not quite ‘Chinese’ enough anyway

Produced by Kakilang, supported by John Ellerman Foundation, Arts Council England, Battersea Arts Centre and Cockayne – Grants for the Arts: a donor advised fund held at The London Community Foundation.

ISBN:978-1-350-50866-8

Number of pages: 94

RRP: £10.99

Published by Methuen Drama

A father waits for his son. Kids hang around skipping school. Fights break out after nights of drinking. Featuring five actors in fifty roles Boys on the Verge of Tears is a bold, kaleidoscopic tale of violence and vulnerability, set entirely in the confines of a men’s public toilet.

Written by Sam Grabiner, the 2022 winner of Soho Theatre’s acclaimed Verity Bargate Award, Boys on the Verge of Tears is a ‘brutal, tender’ exploration of what it is to be a man and is directed by James Macdonald, whose highly acclaimed productions include premieres by Caryl Churchill, Annie Baker and Sarah Kane.

ISBN:978-0-571-39017-5

Number of pages: 91

RRP: £10.99

Published by Faber & Faber

A caustic entertainment for the winter months.

A funny, wild ongoing history play

about how our great leaders grappled first with the Pandemic and then with each other.

The Johnson-Truss-Sunak years told at a furious pace in all their horrible glory. Relive the horror! The Mess! The Murk! The lying about the lies!

Jingle while you mingle with Bully Raab and Super Suella

It’s one big dodgy party. Bring a suitcase

THIS IS NOT THE PLAYTEXT.

ISBN: 978-1-4087-1508-6

Number of pages: 68

RRP: £9.99

Published by Little Brown

A life-affirming story about death, conveyed through the popular mediums of storytelling, servitude to the audience and live carpentry, a combination not seen on the world stage since Nazareth (circa 30AD).

ISBN: 978-1-83904-292-8

Number of pages: 74

RRP: £10.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

But she’s being uncomfortable, and he’s a total bore. The vibe is horrific and the banter is even worse. But something is keeping them in their seats. Something is making them stay. Welcome to your hot date.

With acid wit, Miriam Battye’s new play takes a scalpel to modern romance, interrogating what we really talk about when we talk about love.

ISBN: 978-0-5713-8768-7

Number of pages: 88

RRP: £8.99

Published by Faber & Faber

Louis Emmitt-Stern’s uncanny and razor-sharp sci-fi comedy-drama I Fucked You in My Spaceship received a sold-out premiere at VAULT Festival 2023, winning the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work. It subsequently transferred to Soho Theatre, London.

ISBN: 978-83904-255-3

Number of pages: 96

RRP: £10.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

This is a rip-roaring account of Fleabag, a twenty-something female struggling with being a woman today. Fleabag is an anti-heroine, a refreshingly unique example of today’s modern woman. This is the portrait of a girl who isn’t afraid to admit what she thinks is wrong with her. It’s like meeting a friend for an up-close and personal chat. This is comedy story-telling at its very best with all the unspoken nitty-gritty of real life.

Naughty, funny and dark, Fleabag played to critical and audience acclaim at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival before transferring to London’s Soho Theatre where it returned for a second run in 2014. It toured the world, before returning for its last ever run in London’s West End in 2019.

ISBN: 9781848426245

Number of pages: 48

RRP: £9.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

uelled by halal Haribo and chicken wings, the pair throw themselves in at the deep end, tackling cramped cubicles and cold showers as they learn how to be at one with the water. Fierce, funny, and brimming with heart, Karim Khan examines the pressures faced by young Muslim men in this exhilarating new play about fitting in and striking out.

Presented by Fringe First Award-winning The North Wall.

WINNER: The Scotsman Fringe First Award
WINNER: BBC Popcorn Award for Best New Play

ISBN: 9781350347502

Number of pages: 80

RRP: £10.99

Published by Methuen Drama

A lone performer tells the story of the future of the audience; what’s going to happen to them in the decades, centuries, millenia after the end of this show. It’s the story of a baby born in a lighthouse, of someone on fire in the middle of the desert, of two lovers reunited in a flooded city, of a spaceship on the edge of a black hole. Everything has already been decided. This is the story of the end.

ISBN: 9781350381353

Number of pages: 72

RRP: £10.99

Published by Methuen Drama

Shedding a Skin is a story for our times. A play about finding kindness in unexpected places. A play about connecting with what our elders can teach us – new skin honouring old skin. A play about joy, healing and protest. And having a good belly laugh.

Following a sell-out run in May 2021, Soho Theatre revives Amanda Wilkin’s 2020 Verity Bargate Award winning play, sponsored by Character 7, introducing audiences to a fresh and fierce new voice.

Shortlist: Susan Smith Blackburn prize

ISBN: 9780571372737

Number of pages: 112

RRP: £9.99

Published by Faber & Faber

It’s 2022. There’s a rainbow flag in every high street window, and no lesbian bar. Enter The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs: a lesbian choir on a mission to unite a disparate and dwindling community. Led by a world-weary conductor, the choir flirt, gossip and attempt to sing their way onto the main stage at Pride.

But harmony is more easily dreamt than realised in this heart-warming and musical Soho comedy about love, queerness, and belonging.

ISBN: 9781839040788

Number of pages: 96

RRP: £10.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

It’s club night and the tracks are spinning. Two headliners crossfade between stories of love, sex, and losing their creative spark – set against a backdrop of precarious lives in urban London – as an ever-present DJ shapes their lives with banger after banger.

Cardboard Citizens presents this new play from Danusia Samal, who stars as Aria, alongside Darragh Hand as Clef and Duramaney Kamara as the DJ. Featuring original tracks inspired by early noughties and present-day R&B and Garage, Bangers follows the highs and lows of two strangers as they struggle with their own pasts, while hurtling towards each other’s futures.

All the while, the DJ continues to play, dropping samples and words of wisdom. After all, it’s not about the last track but the one coming next that counts.

Originally commissioned by Soho Theatre
Co-Produced by Cardboard Citizens and Soho Theatre

ISBN: 978-1-83904-105-1

Page Numbers: 58

RRP: £10.99

Published by Nick Hern Books, 2022

It’s for our friends, our parents, our partners, our babies and for any of you that are making a family.

Family means everything you want it to mean.

What a transformative thing it can be to take care of someone else, completely. How it rearranges you. How you might yearn to do it. How you will definitely yearn for a break.

It is relentless. Diabolical. Wonderful. Hilarious. Necessary.

Following the award-winning Three Sisters, RashDash and their mums explore having and becoming mothers.

Another Someone – Edinburgh Festival – Fringe First Award 2010
Scary Gorgeous – Edinburgh Festival – Fringe First Award 2011
Two Man Show – Edinburgh Festival – Fringe First Award. The Stage Award for Acting Excel­lence 2016
Three Sisters –  UK Theatre Award for Best Touring Production 2018

ISBN: 9781350358126

Number of pages: 112

RRP: £9.99

Published by Faber & Faber

It’s Year 10’s first day back at school. Mark is new and too scared to make friends. Darren is out of control and too scary to make friends. The two of them need each other – but neither would ever admit it.

Worlds apart, but more similar than they realise, the pair form a complex and manipulative relationship. And before they know it, they’re embarking on a dangerous experiment that will alter the course of their lives.

Sophie Swithinbank’s play Bacon is an unflinching and unexpectedly humorous look at masculinity, sexuality and power, through the dizzying lens of youth.

First developed on the Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab, it won the Tony Craze Award in 2018, and was first produced at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2022, directed by Matthew Iliffe.

ISBN: 978-1-83904-075-7

Number of Pages: 73

RRP: £9.99

Published by Nick Hern Books, 2022

Motherhood. No one can prepare you for it. No matter how much you tell yourself you can do it – can you? Where’s the rush of love? When will you sleep again?

What if the thing you fear most is also the thing you crave? All you wanted was one night of unbroken sleep, what have you done? Mum is a feverish journey through every parent’s worst nightmare.

ISBN: 9781350268579

Number of pages: 72

RRP: £9.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

She is a bear now, but she wasn’t always. Before, she had sports days, complicated friendships, sex (good and bad) & Tesco energy drinks mixed with cheap vodka. She was just like you, before. Then one night Cally is at a pub in Finsbury Park, and someone walks in. Someone you wouldn’t believe.

Anyone would have done it. Even you.

After a successful run at the well-loved Bunker Theatre in 2019, Before I Was A Bear, Eleanor Tindall’s Stage Debut Award-nominated play directed by Aneesha Srinivasan and starring Jacoba Williams returns. A brutal & compelling coming-of-age story about friendship, mistakes and all-consuming celebrity crushes.

ISBN: 978178682952

Number of Pages: 50

RRP: £9.99

Published by Oberon Books, 2019

Lori is a chef. Bex waits tables. One night in a walk-in fridge and the rest is history.

Lori wants to teach Bex about the finer things in life, but what’s the point when the system is rigged? After all, no-one on minimum wage has headspace to make their own yoghurt.

‘You want to swoop in and whisk me off to this brave new world of matcha powder and sourdough and reclaimed floorboards. And what if I’m happy as I am?

ISBN: 9781839040115

Number of pages: 80

RRP: £11.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage directions from the Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA winning series.

‘Perfect’ Guardian
‘Perfect’ Daily Telegraph
‘Perfect’ Stylist
‘Perfect’ Independent
‘Perfect’ Evening Standard
‘Perfect’ Metro
‘Perfect’ Irish Times
‘Perfect’ RTE
‘Perfect’ Spectator
‘Perfect’ Refinery29
‘Perfect’ Catholic Herald
‘Perfection’ Financial Times

ISBN: 9781529341799

Number of pages: 416

RRP: £20.00

Published by Hodder & Stoughton

This show is a hilarious, brutal and poignant attempt to describe what happened next. How (Not) to Live in Suburbia was performed at Soho Theatre in February 2017.

ISBN: 9781786822536

Number of pages: 64

RRP: £11.99

Published by Oberon Modern Plays

Meet Green Girl. She’ll make you clean. She’ll eradicate dirty. She’ll force-feed you gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free brownies. She. Will. Make. You. WELL. Until she starts getting really, really sick.

Daniella Isaacs peels back the Instagram filter to reveal the dirty truth behind clean living.

Hear Me Raw is an autobiographical account of one woman’s journey through the world of contemporary wellness. A blistering piece of theatre about restriction, control and too much turmeric.

ISBN: 9781786823755

Number of pages: 64

RRP: £9.99

Oberon Modern Plats

When Edie, a student in university lecturer Henry Brook’s physics class, seems to do exactly that, his universe – including his marriage to celebrity atheist author Virginia – is rocked.

Science and religion go head-to-head in a ferociously funny battle for power, sex, fame and followers.

Starring Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek and QI), David Baddiel’s debut play is an electric tragicomedy about the power of belief and our quest for truth in a fractured world.

ISBN: 9781848429116

Number of pages: 116

RRP: £12.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

As well as more than 300 extraordinary unpublished images of David backstage and on stage, the book features over 25 unique artworks created by David especially for the book, his infamous ‘Men’ speech, anecdotes from some of David’s collaborators including Penny Arcade and Christeene and texts by Lois Keidan (Live Art Development Agency), Paul Darling (David’s curator) and Nick 1Blackburn (David’s producer).

ISBN: 9781999783808

Number of pages: 160

RRP: £35.99

Published by Holly Revell Photography

Jaz is in her second year at drama school.  Jaz is tired of performing. Hence her conundrum. But when she stumbles across a piece of forgotten history – her life is changed forever…

What does it mean to find yourself? Especially when it seems the world you live in is diametrically set against you doing just that?

Set against the sprawling backdrop of urban London across centuries, curious is a frank, funny and moving excavation of the lives of two actresses who are young, Black, queer and trying to find out who they are.

Jasmine Lee-Jones was the winner of  Evening Standard Award 2019 and Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for her play seven methods of killing kylie jenner at the Royal Court (reopening this summer).

ISBN: 9781350292673

Number of pages: 120

RRP: £11.99

Published by Methuen Drama

City trader Jonny slinks effortlessly through the city’s dark underbelly, on the prowl for new and dangerous experiences. Desired, depraved and dragging his reluctant intern behind him, he leaves a trail of broken hearts and barristers’ blood in his wake.

Sung in a new English translation and set in the pre-credit crunch days of the early noughties, this is a heady mix of sex, violence and beautiful music. A fantastic new collaboration between Soho Theatre and the UK’s hottest opera company, OperaUpClose, Winner of the 2011 Olivier Award for Best Opera Production for their brilliantly ‘re-magined’ La Boheme.

ISBN: 9781849432405

Number of pages: 52

RRP: £9.99

Oberon Modern Plays

Opening up to new experiences in her late-thirties, Sophie is exploring long repressed sides of herself. When a secret she’s keeping from those she loves, and even from herself, threatens to unravel it all, she must make a choice. Who or what will she decide to give up?

Breathless is a funny, honest and stylish exploration of the knife-edge of hoarding, from the joy to the addiction and suffocating shame. From Laura Horton’s (Plymouth Laureate of Words) own experience of clothes hoarding.

Originally supported by Pleasance as part of the Edinburgh National Partnerships.

WINNER: Fringe First 2022
FINALIST: Popcorn New Writing Award

ISBN: 9781912430833

Number of pages: 60

RRP: £8.99

Published by Aurora Metro Books

Tunde’s 30th birthday is fast approaching. So, he’s just started therapy because he hasn’t been able to get to the gym for weeks and a recent one-night stand ended in tears – his.

Interrogating the challenge of opening up and accepting our own vulnerabilities, Sessions by Ifeyinwa Frederick (writer of The Hoes at Hampstead Theatre) is a raw, funny, bittersweet deep-dive into the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.

ISBN: 9781839040177

Number of pages: 80

RRP: £9.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

This is a show about work.
But the worker isn’t here, so it’s down to you.

You’ll clock in at the beginning.
You’ll get short breaks at regular intervals.
You’ll work in a team, and under your own initiative.

You will be your own boss.
You will be free.

work.txt is a show performed entirely by the audience about the gig economy, financial instability and bullshit jobs.

ISBN: 9781350338920

Number of pages: 64

RRP: £10.99

Published by Methuen Drama

Opera singer Simone very quickly discovers that London is not the BNP-free utopia she’d always dreamed of. Meanwhile, actress Cassi battles it out for the illustrious roles of ‘Sassy Friend’, ‘Spunky Slave’, and ‘Third Crack Whore From The Left’ at every audition.

Desperate to be seen as they are, not as the colour of their skin, they decide to take control and write their own story

[This is that story]

With music, laughter and searing honesty, Shuck ‘n’ Jive is the debut play from Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong & Simone Ibbett-Brown, directed by Soho Theatre Associate Director Lakesha Arie-Angelo.

ISBN: 9781786829412

Number of pages: 88

RRP: £9.99

Published by Oberon Modern Plays

Melissa is having a bit of a crisis. This bold, funny and honest hour explores the reasons why; starting with her mum, God and sex! Told by a first generation British Ghanaian woman on the hunt for an orgasm. Exploring cultural and generational shifts, religion and sexuality, this brave new show asks what happens when we realise mums don’t always know best.

ISBN: 9781786828538

Number of pages: 56

RRP: £9.99

Published by Oberon Modern Plays

Being a doctor is a really good job and you get to save lives and help people, so Anna is determined not to quit. But when her patient runs out on her, and her personal life starts to spiral, she’s not sure how much more she can take.

Super High Resolution is a play about being a doctor in the modern NHS and the limits of anyone’s ability to care for other people.

Blanche McIntyre directs Verity Bargate Award shortlisted playwright Nathan Ellis’ fast-paced and darkly funny debut play for Soho Theatre.

ISBN: 9781350377196

Number of pages: 120

RRP: £10.99

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing

Hassan Abdulrazzak interviewed ex-prisoners and experts in immigration and criminal law to get behind the political rhetoric and explore the extraordinary realities of people caught up in the quagmire of immigration detention and deportation.

ISBN: 9781786828699

Number of pages: 80

RRP: £9.99

Bloomsbury Publishing

Dee’s sexual escapades are messy and temporary – just like her shoe box London flat.

New to the city and in a stop-gap job, Dee has the chance to reinvent herself. But how can you change your life when you don’t know what you want?

Welcome to the secret life of a 33 year old woman.

Following the international success of Fleabag and the Verity Bargate Award-winning play The One, Soho Theatre and DryWrite reunite with Touch, a shamelessly funny and brutally honest play about sex, connection and control.

ISBN: 9781848426955

Number of pages: 144

RRP: £10.99

Published by Nick Hern Books

From the makers of 2018 hit Queens of Sheba comes this powerful new play by Ryan Calais Cameron confronting the daily tensions experienced by Black men as they negotiate life, while constantly feeling like their own lives are on the line.

Typical uncovers the man and the humanity behind a tragic real-life story, challenging traditional conceptions of Black manhood and highlighting the crisis of identity consuming Britain today.

ISBN: 9781786828354

Number of pages: 64

RRP: £10.99

Published by Oberon Modern Plays

WINNER OF THE SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST AWARD, 2015

ISBN: 9781474228916

Number of pages: 64

RRP: £11.99

Published by Methuen Drama

The cult-optimist’s most personal show to date, Cara Josephine is about love and being outdoorsy as a bear.

Pterodactyl Nights brings together highlights from the kinetic duo’s huge catalogue of classic bits and brand new material, all sewn in with bizarre improvised tangents.

Filmed live at Soho Theatre, Mae combines thoughtful social observation and wide ranging nostalgia references to a ‘pseudo-anguished’ past. This love letter to her parents discusses her liberal childhood, puberty, dropping out of high school and navigating dating when you don’t necessarily identify as gay or straight.