NHB Classic Plays

A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.

A bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.

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

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.

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

A demonstration of O'Neill's expressionistic experimentation with masks to emphasise the distinction between characters, and the lack of understanding in human relationships.

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