Plays to perform
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Medea

Medea

By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael

The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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A Doll's House

A Doll's House

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

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

Les Parents Terribles

Les Parents Terribles

By Jean Cocteau Translated by Jeremy Sams

Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

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The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss (stage version)

By George Eliot Adapted by Helen Edmundson

A re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.

The Hamster Wheel

The Hamster Wheel

By Marie Jones

When one partner in a marriage becomes unable to look after themselves and is completely dependent on the other, what happens to the relationship between them?

Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
    After the Dance

    After the Dance

    By Terence Rattigan

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

    Desire Under the Elms

    Desire Under the Elms

    By Eugene O'Neill

    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.

    Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
      Hedda Gabler

      Hedda Gabler

      By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

      An English version of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

      The Duchess of Malfi

      The Duchess of Malfi

      By John Webster

      The macabre Jacobean tragedy, 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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      Company

      Company (US edition)

      By Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

      Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's iconic musical comedy about life, love and marriage.

      Smelling a Rat

      Smelling a Rat

      By Mike Leigh

      A black comedy/farce from the author of Abigail's Party, premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1988.

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      13–18 May 2024
      Wharf Theatre, Devizes
      Margaret Perry