Our series ends with a passionate play about gender politics and women’s rights that still rings true

James’s rich dialogue and clashing-cultures theme make his country-house play worthy of a renewed offer

The Peter Pan author caught Hitchcock’s eye with this Hebridean-set ghost story about the intensity of mother-son relationships

A drama in which the spirit of Jonathan Swift haunts a seance and an astonishingly brief update of the Oresteia confirm the poet’s remarkable skills as a playwright

The critics howled derisively but this challenging story of the violence lurking beneath society’s surface was a game-changer

Reckord’s unflinchingly honest social document pinned down the flaws in a UK education system that consigned an underclass to a dead-end future

The collapse of the 1968 protests left this incisive political dramatist searching for answers – and his response delved brilliantly into the dilemmas of revolution

The writer unleashed her gift for black comedy to excoriate British attitudes to property and possessions in this sprightly drama

This magnificently honest play about the Shelleys and Byron’s summer of sexual experimentation raises difficult questions about the cost of utopian aspirations

A Caribbean-set ‘play of revolutionary dreams’ acquires a chilling new relevance when protests confront the legacy of colonialism

Our series on forgotten theatre classics continues with Wertenbaker’s stylish dissection of Thatcher-era morality

Our new series on lost theatre classics begins with an exceptional play about the dashed hopes of a middle-aged Jamaican woman