A classic 19th-century French farce, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.

An unnerving short play by Brazilian playwright Marcos Barbosa.

A one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.

A brilliantly funny one-act play about a hypochondriac attempting to propose to an argumentative young woman.

A comic duologue about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha.

A bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.

A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.

A Scots version of Molière's play Le Misanthrope, by 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.

After a young girl's suicide, her parents meet for the first time in years at the school where she died.

Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.

A 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.