World Drama: Future Plans
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
1. Aeschylus: The Oresteia
2. O'Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra
3. Aristophanes: Lysistrata
4. Ibsen: Hedda Gabler + Glaspell: Trifles
5. Shakespeare: Macbeth
6. Büchner: Woyzeck
7. Ibsen: The Master Builder + TS Eliot: The Family Reunion
2026-2027
Set book: Arthur Miller - Plays**
1. Miller: The Crucible
2. Euripides: Medea
3. Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
4. Miller: Death of a Salesman
5. Aristophanes: Clouds
6. Euripides: The Trojan Women
7. Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
2027-2028
Set book: Pinter - The Birthday Party**
1. Miller: A View from the Bridge
2. Aristophanes: Acharnians
3. Pinter: The Birthday Party
4. Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale
5. Euripides: Hippolytus
6. O’Neill: Desire under the Elms + Racine: Phaedra
7. Miller: All My Sons
2028-2029
Set book: Lorca - The House of Bernarda Alba and other plays**
1. Lorca: Yerma
2. Beckett: Waiting for Godot
3. Sophocles: Electra + Euripides: Electra
4. Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing
5. Aristophanes: Frogs
6. Lorca: Blood Wedding
7. Aeschylus: Persians + Prometheus Bound
2029-2030
Set book: Ibsen - An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm
1. Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba
2. Euripides: Ion
3. Ibsen: An Enemy of the People
4. Shakespeare: King Lear
5. Aristophanes: Women in the Assembly
6. Ibsen: The Wild Duck
7. Sophocles: Philoctetes + Euripides: Cyclops
2030-2031
Set books:
i) Chekhov - Five Plays
ii) Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead**
1. Euripides: Bacchae
2. Chekhov: The Seagull
3. Aristophanes: Wasps
4. Shakespeare: Hamlet
5. Stoppard: Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
6. Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
7. Shakespeare: Cymbeline
2031-2032
Set books:
i) Strindberg - Miss Julie and Other Plays
ii) Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
1. Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
2. Strindberg: The Father + Creditors
3. Shakespeare: The Tempest
4. Strindberg: Miss Julie + A Dream Play
5. Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
6. Euripides: Heracles
7. Chekhov: Three Sisters + Gogol: The Inspector-General
2032-2033
Set books:
i) JB Priestley - An Inspector Calls**
ii) Nick Dear - Frankenstein** &&
1. Nick Dear: Frankenstein
2. Aristophanes: Women at the Festival
3. JB Priestley: An Inspector Calls
4. Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
5. Euripides: Orestes
6. Sheridan: The Rivals + The School for Scandal
7. Sophocles: Ajax
Other possibilities:
#Set books:
i) Brian Friel - Translations**
ii) Michael Frayn - Copenhagen**
iii) Harold Pinter - The Caretaker**
iv) Plautus - Four Comedies
v) Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire**
vi) Eugene O’Neill - Long Day’s Journey into Night**
vii) Peter Schaffer - Amadeus**
1. Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes
2. Euripides: Helen
3. Shakespeare: Richard II
4. Shaw: Mrs Warren’s Profession + Pygmalion
5. Aristophanes: Birds
6. Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
7. Euripides: Alcestis + Herakleidai
8. Ibsen: When We Dead Awaken
9. Aristophanes: Knights
10. Pirandello: Henry IV
11. Euripides: Phoenician Women
12. Sophocles: Women of Trachis + Euripides: Suppliant Women
13. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World + O'Casey: The Plough and the Stars
14. Shakespeare: Richard III
15. Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis + Iphigenia in Tauris
16. Susan Glaspell: The Verge + Inheritors
17. Hauptmann: The Weavers
18. Menander: The Grouch + Goldoni: The Servant of Two Masters
19. Euripides: Andromache
20. John Galsworthy: Strife
21. J M Barrie: Mary Rose
22. Harley Granville-Barker: Waste
23. Euripides: Hecuba
24. 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 with a double asterisk (**), I will source multiple secondhand copies very cheaply (typically about £4 each).
&& - appears on OCR syllabus for A-level Drama and Theatre