The world's first ever musical, The Beggar's Opera, is performed on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.

A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.

A short play written in response to the situation in Gaza at the time of writing in January 2009.

An adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of Sir Thomas Malory's classic telling of the Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

The gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective.

A funny yet melancholic look at the frustrations, secrets and guilt of middle-class respectability in 1950s England.

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

Inspired by real-life stories, Home Death is a courageous, compassionate play about how our society deals with the reality of dying, raising urgent questions about palliative care in the UK.

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

Travelling from America to Britain to a remote Greek island, The Faith Machine explores the relationship between faith and capitalism and asks fundamental questions about the true meaning of love.

Double Feature brings together – in two volumes of paired short plays – four of the most exciting new voices in UK theatre, in their first commissions for the National Theatre.

A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events.

The macabre Jacobean tragedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

An intensely practical account of the way Hamlet actually works on stage, by an acclaimed actor and director.

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

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

A classic 19th-century French farce, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Nicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.