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NHB Classic Plays

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A Dream Play

A Dream Play

By August Strindberg Adapted by Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.

Don Carlos

Don Carlos

By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike Poulton

Schiller's great tragedy transformed by Mike Poulton into an intense and gripping historical thriller.

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A Doll's House

A Doll's House

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.

Desire Under the Elms

Desire Under the Elms

By Eugene O'Neill

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
    Dances of Death

    Dances of Death

    By Howard Brenton Original author August Strindberg

    A gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage.

    The Dance of Death

    The Dance of Death

    By August Strindberg Adapted by Conor McPherson

    A visceral new version of Strindberg’s compelling, bitingly funny battle of wills.

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony Burgess

    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.

    Cuckold Ubu

    Cuckold Ubu

    By Alfred Jarry

    A 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
      Creditors

      Creditors

      By August Strindberg Translated by Howard Brenton

      Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.

      The Country Wife

      The Country Wife

      By William Wycherley

      A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.

      The City Madam

      The City Madam (RSC edition)

      By Philip Massinger

      A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.

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      The Cherry Orchard

      The Cherry Orchard

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Chekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

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      Chekhov: Shorts

      Chekhov: Shorts

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      A collection of five of Anton Chekhov’s best-known short plays, in brand new English translations.

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      Chekhov: Four Plays

      Chekhov: Four Plays

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Anton 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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      Cardenio

      Cardenio

      Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined

      By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Edited by Gregory Doran and Antonio Alamo

      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.

      Blood Wedding

      Blood Wedding

      By Federico García Lorca Adapted by Tanya Ronder

      García Lorca's blood-soaked story of doomed love, in a version by playwright Tanya Ronder.

      Blood Wedding

      Blood Wedding

      By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

      García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.

      Believe What You Will

      Believe What You Will

      By Philip Massinger

      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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