Classic Drama (pre-1945)

A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.

Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.

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.

A 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.

Strindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage, in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated.

A visceral new version of Strindberg’s compelling, bitingly funny battle of wills.

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

A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

Ben Jonson's 1616 comedy about a junior demon who persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London.

A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.

The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.

Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.