The World's
Greatest
Plays
Theatre's essential canon — ranked by monthly views
This month's top 3
The full list
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1Epic Theatre
Mother Courage and Her Children
A furious, darkly funny anti war play that strips conflict down to money, survival and human compromise with terrifying clarity.
88 viewsWatch -
2Morality Play
Everyman
A strange, powerful medieval drama that strips a human life down to its essentials and asks what, if anything, remains when death arrives.
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3Tragedy
Death of a Salesman
A brutal, compassionate portrait of a man destroyed by the dream he spent his life chasing, and still one of the greatest plays ever written about work, masculinity and failure.
71 viewsWatch -
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5Dramatic Comedy
The Misanthrope
A razor sharp comedy about the exhausting performance of social life and the danger of demanding absolute honesty from a world built on politeness.
69 views -
6Theatre of the Absurd
Waiting for Godot
A strange, hilarious and deeply human play about time, companionship and the terror of waiting for a life that never quite arrives.
67 viewsWatch -
7Social Realism
Dancing at Lughnasa
A tender and devastating memory play about family, freedom and the brief moments of joy that survive even in lives shaped by sacrifice.
65 viewsWatch -
8Dramatic Comedy
Marx in Soho: A Play on History
A furious, funny and unexpectedly human solo play that drags Karl Marx out of history books and drops him directly into the chaos of modern life.
61 views -
9Tragedy
Macbeth
A violent, hypnotic tragedy about ambition, guilt and political chaos that still feels dangerous every time it is performed.
59 views -
10Dramatic Comedy
The Visit
A viciously funny moral nightmare about money, justice and the terrifying ease with which ordinary people learn to excuse cruelty.
59 views -
11Dramatic Comedy
Every Brilliant Thing
The funniest play about depression you will ever see, and one of the most honest things theatre has done with mental health in a generation.
58 viewsWatch -
12Dramatic Comedy
Man and Superman
Shaw's longest, most argumentative and most exhilarating play — a romantic comedy about a man running from a woman, wrapped around a philosophical debate between Don Juan and the Devil.
58 viewsWatch -
13Tragedy
A Streetcar Named Desire
A feverish, devastating portrait of desire, class and self deception that still feels dangerous every time it is performed.
56 viewsWatch -
14Tragedy
Long Day’s Journey into Night
A devastating family drama that strips away every illusion about love, addiction and forgiveness until all that remains is raw human need.
56 views -
15Romantic Comedy
Cyrano de Bergerac
A thrilling romantic comedy about wit, pride and longing that somehow feels intimate even at its most theatrical.
55 viewsWatch -
16Musical Theatre
Oh! What a Lovely War
A dazzling collision of music hall comedy and historical tragedy that reinvented British theatre while exposing the human cost of war.
55 viewsWatch -
17Social Satire
The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole
A deceptively simple play that turns one bureaucratic problem into a devastating portrait of grief, authority and the absurdity of modern systems.
55 viewsWatch -
18Epic Theatre
The Good Person of Szechwan
A brilliant, unsettling play that asks one impossible question with complete clarity: how do you remain good in a society that punishes kindness at every turn?
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19Social Realism
A Doll’s House
A play that changed theatre forever by asking a terrifyingly simple question: what happens when a woman decides her own life matters more than the role she has been assigned?
53 viewsWatch -
20Tragedy
Antigone
An unnervingly modern tragedy about political power, moral conviction and the terrible cost of refusing to bend.
53 viewsWatch -
2117th Century
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare’s most joyful play becomes stranger and wiser with age, a romantic comedy that understands how irrational love can feel and how fragile happiness really is.
52 views -
22Tragedy
Hedda Gabler
A chilling and darkly funny study of boredom, power and repression, with one of the most fascinating women ever written for the stage at its centre.
52 viewsWatch -
23Dramatic Comedy
The Cherry Orchard
A quietly heartbreaking masterpiece about people watching their world disappear in real time. Funny, delicate and far more savage than its reputation suggests.
52 viewsWatch -
24Tragedy
The Glass Menagerie
A fragile, piercing memory play about love, shame and escape that captures the sadness of family life with almost unbearable precision.
52 viewsWatch -
25Dramatic Comedy
Top Girls
A furious, brilliant play about ambition, feminism and the price women pay for success inside systems that were never built for them.
52 viewsWatch -
26Tragedy
Death and the King’s Horseman
A thrilling and devastating play about duty, colonial violence and spiritual responsibility that still feels dangerously alive.
48 viewsWatch -
27Tragedy
Othello
A terrifying study of jealousy, manipulation and prejudice that turns intimate human weakness into full scale tragedy with unbearable precision.
48 views -
28Tragedy
Oedipus Rex
A terrifyingly precise tragedy about knowledge, power and the human need to believe we control our own lives.
46 viewsWatch -
29Tragedy
The Bacchae
A savage and hypnotic tragedy about repression, ecstasy and the terrifying consequences of believing reason alone can control human nature.
46 views -
30Dramatic Comedy
Uncle Vanya
A painfully funny portrait of wasted years, buried desire and the terrifying feeling that life may already have passed you by.
46 views -
31Tragedy
Woyzeck
A furious, fragmented nightmare about poverty, humiliation and psychological collapse that still feels centuries ahead of its time.
43 viewsWatch -
32Dramatic Comedy
Lysistrata
A filthy, furious anti war comedy that still feels shockingly alive more than two thousand years after it was written.
41 views -
33Tragedy
Phèdre
A blazing tragedy of forbidden desire and moral collapse that turns private shame into something terrifyingly public and unforgettable.
27 views
