Politics & war

The Government Inspector

By Nikolai Gogol Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Nuremberg

By Richard Norton-Taylor

A gripping verbatim drama using only the actual words spoken in court during the 1946 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial.

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King Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

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.

Published in volume Ubu

Cuckold Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

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.

Published in volume Ubu

Slave Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

The third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu

Flight

By Mikhail Bulgakov Adapted by Ron Hutchinson

A rich and poetic play set during the Russian Civil War, by the author of The Master and Margarita.

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Edward II

By Christopher Marlowe

The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.

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The Monument

By Colleen Wagner

A powerful play exploring the ambiguities of morality and justice in a time of war when a young soldier is convicted of war crimes.

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Trust

By Gary Mitchell

A play about the bonds of trust in a tight-knit Loyalist community, and how easily they are shattered, from the multi-award winning writer of The Force of Change.

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The Devil's Charter

By Barnabe Barnes

A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.

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This is a Chair

By Caryl Churchill

A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.

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The Clink

By Stephen Jeffreys

A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.

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The Desert Air

By Nicholas Wright

A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

Treetops

By Nicholas Wright

A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

A panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.