NHB Classic Plays

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.

Ibsen's provocative play about truth in a society driven by power and money, given a startling contemporary spin in Thomas Ostermeier and Florian Borchmeyer's acclaimed version, here in an English translation by Duncan Macmillan.

A gripping drama of sex, power and passion from the Spanish Golden Age.

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

James Joyce's only play, a startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.

A rich and poetic play set during the Russian Civil War, by the author of The Master and Margarita.

An adaptation of Ibsen's extraordinary last play, When We Dead Awaken, one of his most deeply personal works.

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

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.

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.

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

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

A portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, considered by many to be Ibsen's dramatic masterpiece.

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

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

Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner.