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12 plays · ordered by views in May 2026

  1. 1
    Dramatic Comedy

    Every Brilliant Thing

    By Duncan Macmillan · First performed in 2013

    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.

    77 views
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    17th Century

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    By William Shakespeare · First performed in 1600

    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.

    42 views
  3. 3
    Tragedy

    Macbeth

    By William Shakespeare · First performed in 1606

    A violent, hypnotic tragedy about ambition, guilt and political chaos that still feels dangerous every time it is performed.

    40 views
  4. 4
    Tragedy

    Othello

    By William Shakespeare · First performed in 1603

    A terrifying study of jealousy, manipulation and prejudice that turns intimate human weakness into full scale tragedy with unbearable precision.

    34 views
  5. 5
    Dramatic Comedy

    Top Girls

    By Caryl Churchill · First performed in 1982

    A furious, brilliant play about ambition, feminism and the price women pay for success inside systems that were never built for them.

    31 views
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    Morality Play

    Everyman

    By Anonymous · First performed in 1510

    A strange, powerful medieval drama that strips a human life down to its essentials and asks what, if anything, remains when death arrives.

    29 views
  7. 7
    Tragedy

    Doctor Faustus

    By Christopher Marlowe · First performed in 1592

    A thrilling and unsettling play about ambition, vanity and the terror of realising too late that knowledge cannot save you from yourself.

    26 views
  8. 8
    Tragedy

    Hamlet

    By William Shakespeare · First performed in 1603

    Possibly the greatest play ever written about grief, paralysis and the terrifying difficulty of knowing what the right thing actually is.

    24 views
  9. 9
    Tragedy

    Romeo and Juliet

    By William Shakespeare · First performed in 1597

    A play everyone thinks they already know until they see how violent, funny, reckless and emotionally overwhelming it actually is.

    24 views
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    Tragedy

    King Lear

    By William Shakespeare · First performed in 1606

    A terrifying study of power, ageing and human cruelty that strips civilisation down to the bone and somehow finds tenderness there too.

    23 views
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    Dramatic Comedy

    Man and Superman

    By George Bernard Shaw · First performed in 1905

    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.

    18 views
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    Romantic Comedy

    The Merchant of Venice

    By William Shakespeare · First performed in 1598

    A brilliant and deeply uncomfortable play about prejudice, money and power whose greatest strength lies in its refusal to offer easy moral certainty.

    18 views