NHB Classic Plays

An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

A nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.

A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

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.

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.

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