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An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller's version of Ibsen's most explosive play.

Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine

By Caryl Churchill

A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.

Elizabeth Gordon Quinn

Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (original Traverse Theatre version)

By Chris Hannan

A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

Published in volume Scot-Free
    Mad Forest

    Mad Forest

    By Caryl Churchill

    A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events.

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    Light in the Village

    Light in the Village

    By John Clifford

    A devastatingly effective modern parable about poverty and corruption in an Indian village.

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    Machinal

    Machinal

    By Sophie Treadwell

    A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

    The Hairy Ape

    The Hairy Ape

    By Eugene O'Neill

    A nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.

    Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
      A Doll's House

      A Doll's House

      By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

      Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.

      Les Parents Terribles

      Les Parents Terribles

      By Jean Cocteau Translated by Jeremy Sams

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

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      The Machine Wreckers

      The Machine Wreckers

      By Ernst Toller Translated by Ashley Dukes

      A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.

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      Waiting Room Germany

      Waiting Room Germany

      By Klaus Pohl Translated by David Tushingham

      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.

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      Woyzeck

      Woyzeck

      By Georg Büchner Translated by Gregory Motton

      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.

      Drinks Before Dinner

      Drinks Before Dinner

      By E.L. Doctorow

      A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.

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      Widows

      Widows

      By Ariel Dorfman and Tony Kushner

      A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America.

      East is East

      East is East

      By Ayub Khan Din

      A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

      King Ubu

      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

        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

          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
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