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NHB Classic Plays

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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing (West End edition)

By William Shakespeare Edited by Robert Hastie and Josie Rourke

A consummate romantic comedy that dramatises the battle of the sexes with a dazzling display of Shakespeare's wit and wordplay.

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Miss Julie & Creditors

Miss Julie & Creditors

Two plays by August Strindberg

By August Strindberg Translated by Howard Brenton

August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power – both written in the summer of 1888 – in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton.

Miss Julie

Miss Julie

By August Strindberg Adapted by Howard Brenton

A brilliant adaptation of Strindberg's groundbreaking masterpiece.

Medea

Medea (Northern Broadsides version)

By Euripides Adapted by Tom Paulin

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

Medea

Medea

By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael

The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Medea

Medea (National Theatre of Scotland version)

By Euripides Adapted by Liz Lochhead

Euripides' classic story of the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.

Medea

Medea (Theatre Babel version)

By Euripides Adapted by Liz Lochhead

Euripides' classic story of the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.

The Master Builder

The Master Builder

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by David Edgar

An enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.

Mary Stuart

Mary Stuart

By Friedrich Schiller Translated by Jeremy Sams

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

The Mandate

The Mandate

By Nikolai Erdman Adapted by Declan Donnellan

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

The Machine Wreckers

The Machine Wreckers

By Ernst Toller Translated by Ashley Dukes

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

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The Machine Gunners

The Machine Gunners (stage version)

By Robert Westall Adapted by Ali Taylor

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

Machinal

Machinal

By Sophie Treadwell

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.

Machinal

Machinal (2018 edition)

By Sophie Treadwell

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.

Macbeth

Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse edition)

By William Shakespeare Edited by Max Webster

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.

Lulu

Lulu

By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright

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.

Luise Miller

Luise Miller

By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike Poulton

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

Lorca: Three Plays

Lorca: Three Plays

By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

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.

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