Plays

A raw and honest verbatim-theatre play about post-reunification Germany, commissioned in 1994 by Der Spiegel to test the mood of the new Germany.

The macabre Jacobean tragedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A brilliant and painfully truthful portrait of Stanley Spencer, the wayward genius of modern British painting.

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

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

An intricate, tender play about the obligations we have to one another, and those we would rather not.

The Italian Court is riddled with corruption in this classic Jacobean tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A comedy drama about male friendship in which five old friends meet for a traditional evening of poker.

Five plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.

Nicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.

Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's iconic musical comedy about life, love and marriage.

A collection of Paula Vogel's work, surveying a remarkable decade of her writing for the stage. Her singular voice is exhilarating, comic and heartbreaking by turns.

One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Ben Jonson's classic comedy, in a handy pocket edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A black comedy/farce from the author of Abigail's Party, premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1988.