NHB Classic Plays

Lessing's 18th-century masterpiece, a passionate plea for religious tolerance.

Nicholas Wright's version of Chekhov's masterpiece, in which four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater following the death of their father.

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.