NHB Classic Plays

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

Nicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.

Schiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.

Pirandello's ingenious detective story about a young woman who is hounded by the press after the death of a child in her care..

A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.

A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.

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

Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.

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.

The third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.

Chekhov's great play about an elderly professor whose plans to sell off his rural estate threaten the livelihoods of those who have worked tirelessly to keep the estate going.

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