An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

A witty and absurdist play that dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.

When one partner in a marriage becomes unable to look after themselves and is completely dependent on the other, what happens to the relationship between them?

Bestselling novelist Dermot Bolger transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin.

A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.

A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.

Strindberg's classic naturalistic play, translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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.

A compulsive, gripping and intense play from the author of Death and the Maiden.

An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

An English version of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.