Plays

A moving play about the stalwart endurance of a devoted mother, winner of the 2018 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play.

An intimate and moving play about an accountant from Ohio, and her apparently humdrum life.

A modern classic about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England - retold by Scotland's most popular playwright.

A biographical play about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Premiered by Shared Experience.

A brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece that places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.

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

A provocative, funny and fascinating play, inspired by the true story of Mary Barton and her husband Bertold Wiesner, pioneers of fertility treatment.

Peepolykus bring their exhilarating combination of verbal slapstick, visual surprise and anarchic comedy to Gustave Flaubert's seminal nineteenth-century masterpiece Madame Bovary.

An enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.

Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Wallace Shawn's version of Henrik Ibsen's Master Builder Solness, made into a film by Jonathan Demme in 2014 — a film that is an utterly contemporary vision of Ibsen's classic play.

A wry and incisive play exposing how our desire for a normal family life and our fears about adults, young people and sex, can sometimes outride the truth.

The first collection of work by one of America's most important, vital and original young voices, including Boxing 2000, Caveman and the OBIE-Award winning House.

David Edgar's landmark play about the twenty-somethings who came of age in 1968 and were drawn into revolutionary politics. Revised version staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2018.

Two plays by David Edgar, written thirty-five years apart, both exploring the theme of youth and revolution.

An ethereal family drama exploring rebirth in the aftermath of tragedy.

Middleton's only surviving historical play, published in the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.

Four early plays from the author of The Weir, with a foreword by the author.

The third collection of plays by one of Ireland's most celebrated contemporary playwrights. Contains: Shining City, The Seafarer, The Veil, The Birds and The Dance of Death. With a foreword by the author.

The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author.

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

Giles Terera's powerful debut play about Olaudah Equiano and the historical movement to abolish slavery – a timely response to the social upheaval the world has witnessed in recent years.

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

A play about class, consent and transgressions buried in the past, set over the course of one winesoaked evening in a Dublin restaurant.