NHB Classic Plays

A biting satire on the morals of Victorian society, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Ibsen's political comedy, in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.

Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.

A funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community where property and family unleash fierce passions.

Ibsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre.

Three of Federico García Lorca's most famous plays in a single volume: Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. Translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford.

A masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.

The first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.

Shakespeare's most extraordinary psychological drama in a version premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in 2023, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, directed by Max Webster. With behind-the-scenes material exploring how the production was conceived and developed.

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.

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.

A thrilling adaptation of the beloved, award-winning children's novel.

A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.

A chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

Schiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.

An enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.

Euripides' tragedy, reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English.