Classic Drama (pre-1945)

A gripping drama of sex, power and passion from the Spanish Golden Age.

Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.

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

A bold new version of the classic tragedy by one of Britain's hottest playwrights.

Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it.

A gripping version of Ibsen's most contemporary play, first performed at the Bridge Theatre, London, in 2022.

A fresh translation of one of the last great epics of the nineteenth century.

A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.

The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.

An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. A family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War.

A trilogy of full-length plays relocating Aeschylus' Oresteia to New England in 1865, just after the end of the American Civil War.

Rattigan's brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s.