Abraham Lincoln

Nina Leeds loses her fiance in the war and spends decades trying to rebuild a life from the pieces. O'Neill lets the characters speak their private thoughts aloud, so you hear what they never say.

Eugene O Neill

A strike drags on until neither the company chairman nor the workers' leader can back down without losing everything. Galsworthy gives both men the same stubborn dignity.

John Galsworthy

Money goes missing at a country house party and everyone picks a side before the facts are in. Galsworthy examines how class and prejudice decide who gets believed.

John Galsworthy

Nora has spent eight years being adored and underestimated by her husband. The play ends with the door slam that changed European theatre.

Henrik Ibsen

Hedda comes home from her honeymoon bored, trapped and dangerous. Ibsen wrote one of the few roles actors still argue about a century later.

Henrik Ibsen