NHB Classic Plays

The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Euripides' classic story of the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.

Euripides' classic story of the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.

An enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.

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

A chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

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

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

A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

The first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.

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

Ibsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre.