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Tragedy

20 plays · ordered by views in June 2026

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    Tragedy

    Miss Julie

    By August Strindberg · First performed in 1888

    A scorching psychological duel about sex, class and power that still feels dangerous more than a century after it was written.

    26 views
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    Tragedy

    The Bacchae

    By Euripides · First performed in 405 BCE

    A savage and hypnotic tragedy about repression, ecstasy and the terrifying consequences of believing reason alone can control human nature.

    23 views
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    Tragedy

    Woyzeck

    By Georg Büchner · First performed in 1879

    A furious, fragmented nightmare about poverty, humiliation and psychological collapse that still feels centuries ahead of its time.

    20 views
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    Tragedy

    Death and the King’s Horseman

    By Wole Soyinka · First performed in 1975

    A thrilling and devastating play about duty, colonial violence and spiritual responsibility that still feels dangerously alive.

    16 views
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    Tragedy

    The Glass Menagerie

    By Tennessee Williams · First performed in 1944

    A fragile, piercing memory play about love, shame and escape that captures the sadness of family life with almost unbearable precision.

    16 views
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    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.

    12 views
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    Oedipus Rex

    By Sophocles · First performed in 429 BCE

    A terrifyingly precise tragedy about knowledge, power and the human need to believe we control our own lives.

    12 views
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    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.

    12 views
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    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.

    11 views
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    Tragedy

    Long Day’s Journey into Night

    By Eugene O'Neill · First performed in 1956

    A devastating family drama that strips away every illusion about love, addiction and forgiveness until all that remains is raw human need.

    11 views
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    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.

    11 views
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    Tragedy

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    By Tennessee Williams · First performed in 1947

    A feverish, devastating portrait of desire, class and self deception that still feels dangerous every time it is performed.

    10 views
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    Tragedy

    Antigone

    By Sophocles · First performed in 441 BCE

    An unnervingly modern tragedy about political power, moral conviction and the terrible cost of refusing to bend.

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    Tragedy

    Medea

    By Euripides · First performed in 431 BCE

    A furious, terrifying tragedy that forces an audience to sit inside betrayal, grief and revenge with absolutely nowhere to hide.

    9 views
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    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.

    8 views
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    Tragedy

    Hedda Gabler

    By Henrik Ibsen · First performed in 1891

    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.

    8 views
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    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.

    8 views
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    Social Realism

    The Power of Darkness

    By Leo Tolstoy · First performed in 1886

    A suffocating, morally ferocious drama in which greed, lust and fear poison an entire household from the inside out.

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    Tragedy

    Death of a Salesman

    By Arthur Miller · First performed in 1949

    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.

    6 views
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    Tragedy

    Phèdre

    By Jean Racine · First performed in 1677

    A blazing tragedy of forbidden desire and moral collapse that turns private shame into something terrifyingly public and unforgettable.

    6 views