Outline plan for future plays (after 2024-2025)
Subject to change.
For many more resources see Useful links for plays after 2024/5.
2025-2026
- Aeschylus: The Oresteia
- O'Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra
- Aristophanes: Lysistrata
- Ibsen: Hedda Gabler + Glaspell: Trifles
- Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Büchner: Woyzeck
- Ibsen: The Master Builder + TS Eliot: The Family Reunion
2026-2027
Set book: Arthur Miller - Plays †
- Miller: The Crucible
- Euripides: Medea
- Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
- Miller: Death of a Salesman
- Aristophanes: Clouds
- Euripides: The Trojan Women
- Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
2027-2028
Set book: Pinter - The Birthday Party †
- Miller: A View from the Bridge
- Aristophanes: Acharnians
- Pinter: The Birthday Party
- Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale
- Euripides: Hippolytus
- O’Neill: Desire under the Elms + Racine: Phaedra
- Miller: All My Sons
2028-2029
Set book: Lorca - The House of Bernarda Alba and other plays †
- Lorca: Yerma
- Beckett: Waiting for Godot
- Sophocles: Electra + Euripides: Electra
- Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing
- Aristophanes: Frogs
- Lorca: Blood Wedding
- Aeschylus: Persians + Prometheus Bound
2029-2030
Set book: Ibsen - An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm
- Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba
- Euripides: Ion
- Ibsen: An Enemy of the People
- Shakespeare: King Lear
- Aristophanes: Women in the Assembly
- Ibsen: The Wild Duck
- Sophocles: Philoctetes + Euripides: Cyclops
2030-2031
Set books:
- Chekhov - Five Plays
- Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead †
- Euripides: Bacchae
- Chekhov: The Seagull
- Aristophanes: Wasps
- Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Stoppard: Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
- Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
- Shakespeare: Cymbeline
2031-2032
Set books:
- Strindberg - Miss Julie and Other Plays
- Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
- Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
- Strindberg: The Father + Creditors
- Shakespeare: The Tempest
- Strindberg: Miss Julie + A Dream Play
- Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
- Euripides: Heracles
- Chekhov: Three Sisters + Gogol: The Inspector-General
2032-2033
Set books:
- Nick Dear: Frankenstein
- Aristophanes: Women at the Festival
- JB Priestley: An Inspector Calls
- Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
- Euripides: Orestes
- Sheridan: The Rivals + The School for Scandal
- Sophocles: Ajax
Other possibilities:
Set books:
- Brian Friel - Translations †
- Michael Frayn - Copenhagen †
- Harold Pinter - The Caretaker †
- Plautus - Four Comedies
- Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire †
- Eugene O’Neill - Long Day’s Journey into Night †
- Peter Schaffer - Amadeus †
- Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes
- Euripides: Helen
- Shakespeare: Richard II
- Shaw: Mrs Warren’s Profession + Pygmalion
- Aristophanes: Birds
- Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
- Euripides: Alcestis + Herakleidai
- Ibsen: When We Dead Awaken
- Aristophanes: Knights
- Pirandello: Henry IV
- Euripides: Phoenician Women
- Sophocles: Women of Trachis + Euripides: Suppliant Women
- Synge: The Playboy of the Western World + O'Casey: The Plough and the Stars
- Shakespeare: Richard III
- Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis + Iphigenia in Tauris
- Susan Glaspell: The Verge + Inheritors
- Hauptmann: The Weavers
- Menander: The Grouch + Goldoni: The Servant of Two Masters
- Euripides: Andromache
- John Galsworthy: Strife
- J M Barrie: Mary Rose
- Harley Granville-Barker: Waste
- Euripides: Hecuba
- Hauptmann: Before Sunrise
Some of these plays appear on theatre critic Michael Billington’s ‘101 Greatest Plays’.
All set books will cost no more than £8 new. For those marked thus †, I will source multiple secondhand copies very cheaply (typically about £4 each).
