Classic Drama (pre-1945)

George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.

John Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.

A Middle-Eastern leader comes out of hiding, and is hounded from state to state by the forces of the Roman Empire who threaten sanctions and ultimately war on anyone who harbours him.

García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.

García Lorca's blood-soaked story of doomed love, in a version by playwright Tanya Ronder.

Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.

A pivotal work of European culture, with a character that has inspired artists from Goya to Picasso.

Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.

A delightfully lewd city comedy by the co-author of The Changeling.

Chekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

A Chekhovian family drama, first staged in Russia in 1905.

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