A war-time Exeter family takes in an evacuee from London.

Arthur Miller's version of Ibsen's most explosive play.

An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.

A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.

An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.

The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.

Four plays by Tina Howe: Coastal Disturbances, Museum, The Art of Dining and Painting Churches.

Writing at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.

A short play about domestic abuse, and its terrifying impact on families.

A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.

A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.

A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events.

An urgent political play about the collapse of an Eastern Bloc government at the end of 1989. Part of David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy of plays.

A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

A controversial work of extraordinary power, remarkable length (9 acts), and use of asides to express the characters' unspoken thoughts. An outstanding, somewhat Freudian play from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.

The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.