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NHB Classic Plays

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Exiles

Exiles

By James Joyce

James Joyce's only play, a startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.

An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller's version of Ibsen's most explosive play.

The Enchantment

The Enchantment

By Victoria Benedictsson Adapted by Clare Bayley

The extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler.

The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones

By Eugene O'Neill

An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.

Published in volume Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
    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 Dream Play

    A Dream Play

    By August Strindberg Adapted by Caryl Churchill

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

    Don Carlos

    Don Carlos

    By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike Poulton

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

    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.

    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
      Dances of Death

      Dances of Death

      By Howard Brenton Original author August Strindberg

      A gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage.

      The Dance of Death

      The Dance of Death

      By August Strindberg Adapted by Conor McPherson

      A visceral new version of Strindberg’s compelling, bitingly funny battle of wills.

      Cyrano de Bergerac

      Cyrano de Bergerac

      By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony Burgess

      The 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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