Plays

Ibsen's play about idealism and liberalism undermined by a deeply conservative society. In an English translation by Kenneth McLeish, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Ibsen's masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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.

Euripides' version of the Ancient Greek myth of revenge on a murdering parent. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

An English translation of Euripides' classic tragedy, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Gorky's magnificent play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

John Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.

A delightfully lewd city comedy by the co-author of The Changeling.

A short play about an Iraqi War veteran.

A short play about a man whose fortunes have declined along with the Scottish fishing industry in which he has worked all his life.

A sweet-hearted tale of a washed-up knight-of-old, from the grandfather of modern Scottish playwriting.

A short play about a writer returning home from Palestine to his wife, and being gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie.

A short play about a young woman who, after shoplifting for the first time, is chased by the store detective.

A short play about a father and son waiting in a new 'self-harming unit'.

A short and unnerving play about families, property and rampant vegetation.

A darkly surreal and richly comic short play about a deeply unusual mother and son relationship.

A short play about Lord Alfred Douglas, the former lover of Oscar Wilde, and his latter years as the supporter of a prominent homophobe.

An acclaimed Catalan drama that presesnt a disturbing picture of contemporary Western society set against a background of urban alienation and violence.