NHB Classic Plays
The Country Wife
A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.
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By August Strindberg Translated by Howard BrentonPassionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.
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Cuckold Ubu
By Alfred JarryA 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.
Published in volume UbuCyrano de Bergerac
By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony BurgessThe 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.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Dance of Death
By August Strindberg Adapted by Conor McPhersonA visceral new version of Strindberg’s compelling, bitingly funny battle of wills.
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Dances of Death
By Howard Brenton Original author August StrindbergA gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Desire Under the Elms
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 BrownA Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishIbsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Don Carlos
By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike PoultonSchiller's great tragedy transformed by Mike Poulton into an intense and gripping historical thriller.
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A Dream Play
By August Strindberg Adapted by Caryl ChurchillCaryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Emperor and Galilean
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Ben PowerA 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.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Emperor Jones
An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.
Published in volume Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
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