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Waiting Room Germany

Waiting Room Germany

By Klaus Pohl Translated by David Tushingham

A raw and honest verbatim-theatre play about post-reunification Germany, commissioned in 1994 by Der Spiegel to test the mood of the new Germany.

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An Italian Straw Hat

An Italian Straw Hat

By Eugène Labiche Translated by Kenneth McLeish

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

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John Gabriel Borkman

John Gabriel Borkman (National Theatre version)

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Nicholas Wright

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

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The Learned Ladies

The Learned Ladies

By Molière Translated by A.R. Waller

Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Woyzeck

Woyzeck

By Georg Büchner Translated by Gregory Motton

One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Lysistrata

Lysistrata

By Aristophanes Translated by Patric Dickinson

The ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector

By Nikolai Gogol Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Master Builder

The Master Builder

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Don Juan

Don Juan

By Molière Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Molière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish.

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The Seagull

The Seagull

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Chekhov's early tragedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

Ubu

Ubu

The Ubu Plays: King Ubu, Cuckold Ubu & Slave Ubu

By Alfred Jarry Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Alfred Jarry's trilogy of plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu, satirising power, greed, and bourgeois pretension.

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King Ubu

King Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu
    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
      Slave Ubu

      Slave Ubu

      By Alfred Jarry

      The third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.

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        Flight

        Flight

        By Mikhail Bulgakov Adapted by Ron Hutchinson

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

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        Naked

        Naked

        By Luigi Pirandello Adapted by Nicholas Wright

        Pirandello's ingenious detective story about a young woman who is hounded by the press after the death of a child in her care..

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        Life is a Dream

        Life is a Dream

        By Pedro Calderón Translated by John Clifford

        A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age, in an English version by John Clifford.

        Bacchae

        Bacchae

        By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael

        The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.

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