NHB Classic Plays

Euripides' great tragedy, covering themes of religious scepticism, the injustices within roles for women and the destructive power of war. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

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

A biting satire on the morals of Victorian society, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A black comedy about a question that haunts us today - what to do about an ageing population.

Richard Eyre's high-profile adaptation of Ibsen's famous 'problem play' about a headstrong woman's determination to control those around her.

The incendiary story of Henry VIII's chancellor, Sir Thomas More, executed for failing to arrange Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

A Jacobean gore-fest of enforced seduction and ultimate revenge. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Schiller's great tragedy transformed by Mike Poulton into an intense and gripping historical thriller.

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

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.

A gripping historical tragedy, set in the time of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, about a man ruthlessly working his way to the top, destroying everyone in his path.