Classic Drama (pre-1945)

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

An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.

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.

A demonstration of O'Neill's expressionistic experimentation with masks to emphasise the distinction between characters, and the lack of understanding in human relationships.

A nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.

An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

A one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.

A brilliantly funny one-act play about a hypochondriac attempting to propose to an argumentative young woman.

A comic duologue about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha.

A bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.

A one-act play by Chekhov in a translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine.

A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.