NHB Classic Plays
All God's Chillun Got Wings
An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.
Anna Christie
Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.
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Antigone
The first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.
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Arden of Faversham
By anonymousA domestic tragedy about a woman plotting to have her husband murdered, Arden of Faversham was first published in 1592. Its authorship is unknown, although suggestions include Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.
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Bacchae
The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.
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The Bear
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
Believe What You Will
A Middle-Eastern leader comes out of hiding, and is hounded from state to state by the forces of the Roman Empire who threaten sanctions and ultimately war on anyone who harbours him.
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Blood Wedding
By Federico García Lorca Adapted by Tanya RonderGarcía Lorca's blood-soaked story of doomed love, in a version by playwright Tanya Ronder.
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Blood Wedding
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo CliffordGarcía Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.
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Cardenio
Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined
Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.
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Chekhov: Four Plays
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineAnton Chekhov's four greatest plays in one volume - in sensitive, accurate and much-performed translations. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series.
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Chekhov: Shorts
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA collection of five of Anton Chekhov’s best-known short plays, in brand new English translations.
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The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineChekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
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The City Madam (RSC edition)
A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.
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The Country Wife
A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.
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Creditors
By August Strindberg Translated by Howard BrentonPassionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.
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Cuckold Ubu
By Alfred JarryA sequel to King Ubu, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Cuckold Ubu continues the adventures of Pa Ubu.
Published in volume Ubu
Cyrano de Bergerac
By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony BurgessThe 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.
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The Dance of Death
By August Strindberg Adapted by Conor McPhersonA visceral new version of Strindberg’s compelling, bitingly funny battle of wills.
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Dances of Death
By Howard Brenton Original author August StrindbergA gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage.
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Desire Under the Elms
A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.
Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishIbsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.
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A Doll's House (Sheffield Theatres version)
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Chris BushA taut and gripping adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's powerful drama, premiered at the Crucible, Sheffield Theatres, in 2024.
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Don Carlos
By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike PoultonSchiller's great tragedy transformed by Mike Poulton into an intense and gripping historical thriller.
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