Set in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play by a leading Mexican writer stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.

A powerful exploration of machismo and sexual desire, by Peru's most acclaimed writer.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Schiller's epic trilogy set during the Thirty Years' War, adapted into a gripping single play with all the drama and twists of fate of a Shakespearean tragedy.

Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong.

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

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

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

A tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine.

Two linked plays from the Russian playwright dubbed the 'female Chekhov', depicting the grim reality of domestic life in Soviet Russia.

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

A play that follows one woman from a Polish village to the bright lights of London, exploring the issue of abortion and the Catholic Church.

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