Plays to perform

NHB Classic Plays

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The Machine Gunners (stage version)

The Machine Gunners (stage version)

By Robert Westall Adapted by Ali Taylor

A thrilling adaptation of the beloved, award-winning children's novel.

The House of Bernarda Alba (Drama Classics)

The House of Bernarda Alba (Drama Classics)

By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.

The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

By D H Lawrence Introduction by Colin Counsell

An intense and powerful drama set in a Nottinghamshire mining town. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Judgement Day

Judgement Day

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Mike Poulton

An adaptation of Ibsen's extraordinary last play, When We Dead Awaken, one of his most deeply personal works.

Anna Christie

Anna Christie

By Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.

Emperor and Galilean

Emperor and Galilean

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Ben Power

A thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.

A Woman Killed with Kindness

A Woman Killed with Kindness

By Thomas Heywood Edited by Trevor Griffiths

A startling domestic thriller from the seventeenth century, one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Luise Miller

Luise Miller

By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike Poulton

A masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.

Seagull

Seagull

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley

A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, restoring the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896.

The League of Youth

The League of Youth

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Andy Barrett

Ibsen's political comedy, in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.

The City Madam (RSC edition)

The City Madam (RSC edition)

By Philip Massinger

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

Cardenio

Cardenio

Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined

By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Edited by Gregory Doran and Antonio Alamo

Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.

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