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This second collection of Brian Friels plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. The plays included are Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney. The collection is introduced by Christopher Murray.

This is a new collection of some of David Hares finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amys View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.

This second collection of John Osbornes dramatic work includes The Entertainer, The Hotel in Amsterdam, West of Suez and Time Present. A lifelong satirist of prigs and puritans, whether of the Right or Left, he took no hostages, expecting from other people the same unyielding, unflinching commitment to their view of the truth which he took for granted in his own. Of all the British playwrights of the twentieth century he is the one who risked the most. And risking most, frequently offered the most rewards. David Hare, SpectatorOsborne was an instinctive writer, but he had genius in his early years for capturing the national mood and conveying undiluted feeling... one wonders whether any of the bright new talents will have the courage to do what Osborne did in the past: to encapsulate on the tiny stage the state of the nation at large.Guardian Praise for The EntertainerThe rancid, dead-accurate domestic dialogue is a joy, with cliches dropping like bats from the ceiling... the play becomes a flamboyant coronach for Englands lost greatness, enshrining one of the great characters in modern drama.Daily TelegraphLike all Osbornes best work, this is a play about personal failure, individual desolation, the frustration of a community. One of the reasons why Osborne changed the face of English theatre is that he made passionate personal drama out of a national malaise.Sunday Times

This first volume of David Hares plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of one of the great post-war British playwrights (Independent on Sunday). The volume also includes the plays Slag, Teeth n Smiles, Knuckle and Licking Hitler, and is introduced by the author.

This third collection of John Osbornes dramatic work includes three classic plays for the stage which confirm his reputation as one of the greatest British playwrights of the twentieth century. A Patriot for MeIt is a landmark play in its open treatment of homosexuality and in the breadth of its historical canvas... few post-war plays have dealt so brilliantly with the way the individual, in rejecting the ethos of his society, also uncannily reflects it.GuardianLutherThe language is urgent and sinewy, packed with images that derive from bone, blood and marrow; the prose, especially in Luthers sermons, throbs with a rhetorical zeal that has not been heard in English historical drama since the seventeenth century. Kenneth Tynan Inadmissible EvidenceThis is a work of stunning and intemperate power, a great bellow of rage and pain... there is a self-lacerating honesty about his writing that few other playwrights have come close to matching.Daily Telegraph

This first collection by Frank McGuinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a powerful and profoundly moving study of a group of Ulster Protestant volunteers in the Great War. The book also contains Carthaginians, set in a Derry graveyard in the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday killings, Innocence, McGuinnesss vigorous drama based on the life of Caravaggio, The Factory Girls and Baglady.

In 1956 John Osbornes Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. This volume includes some of the early plays which launched his career along its startling trajectory, as well as his much later play, Dejavu, which brings us Look Back in Angers Jimmy Porter thirty-five years on, older and wiser, but no less indignantly eloquent.

This revised third volume of Harold Pinters work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Mans Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize.The HomecomingOf all Harold Pinters major plays, The Homecoming has the most powerful narrative line... You are fascinated, lured on, sucked into the vortex.Sunday TelegraphThe most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinters plays.The TimesOld TimesA rare quality of high tension is evident, revealing in Old Times a beautifully controlled and expressive formality that has seldom been achieved since the plays of Racine.Financial TimesHarold Pinters poetic, Proustian Old Times has the inscrutability of a mysterious picture, and the tension of a good thriller.IndependentNo Mans LandThe work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.The Times

This volume contains Harold Pinters first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday Party Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.Mr Pinters terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.Sunday TimesThe Room and The Dumb Waiter In these two early one-act plays, Harold Pinter reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character.Harold Pinter is the most original writer to have emerged from the "new wave" of dramatists who gave fresh life to the British theatre in the fifties and early sixties.The TimesThe HothouseThe Hothouse was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play in 1958, just before commencing work on The Caretaker. In this compelling study of bureaucratic power, we can see the full emergence of a great and original dramatic talent.The Hothouse is at once sinister and hilarious, suggesting an unholy alliance of Kafka and Feydeau.Spectator

This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his remarkable 1975 play which focused on the Chinese Revolution with Brechtian subtlety, his screenplay for Saigon: Year of the Cat, The Secret Rapture, his biting portrait of a family in crisis, and the plays A Map of the World and The Bay at Nice. The collection is introduced by the author.

The second volume of Harold Pinters collected work includes The Caretaker.The Caretaker It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success. The obsessive caretaker, Davies, is a classic comic creation, and his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston and Mick a landmark in twentieth-century drama.The play remains a masterpiece.Daily TelegraphThe Collection This one-act play for television explores the sexual manoeuvres between two couples in the clothing trade.Taps the adrenal flow of contemporary guilt and anxiety.TimeThe Lover Richard and Sarah conduct themselves with apparent respectability in the mornings, whilst living out a sequence of erotic rituals in the afternoons.Beautifully written... the sexiest play I remember seeing on the television.Sunday Times The volume also includes Night School and The Dwarfs, plus five revue sketches written during the same period.

The Night SeasonThe Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. Its also delightfully, rudely funny.Financial TimesLook out for the name Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Its once in a blue moon that a writer gets her second-ever play staged at the National. Its even more remarkable when you wander away at the end, walking on air.... Lenkiewicz is quite extraordinarily talented.Independent on SundayShoreditch MadonnaA strong absorbing work, full of passion, pathos and sly humour, set in the hip art scene of Londons East End... There is a rare combination of pain, wit and originality in Lenkiewiczs writing.Daily TelegraphHer Naked SkinIt is shocking to think that this is the first full-length work by a woman to be seen on the Olivier stage. But Lenkiewicz makes up for lost time by exploring the hunger for political and personal emancipation that fuelled the suffragette movement in 1913... Her play colonises this daunting space with bravura confidence.. Her power lies in her ability to recapture the triumphs and tribulations of a history movement... Lenkiewiczs play plants a defiant feminist flag on the Olivier stage.GuardianThis is a big play with a big heart and I recommend it with a matching warmth. Lenkiewicz is making history here and, in so doing, demonstrating that shes got a great future.Daily TelegraphThe PainterAn intimate portrait of Turner... Understated and quietly superb.Independent on Sunday

The present volume gathers all of Becketts texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.He belie

A painfully comic excavation of a family history that asks if there is an authorised version of the past - or just the one we can live with.Kate Bane returns home to her parents for a winter weekend to introduce her new boyfriend. As the snow falls, Kate finds herself searching with increasing desperation for the truth about her familys past. Are her memories fact, or are they continually shifting acts of imagination?Unable to pin down the truth, can she write a version of the family mythology that will ensure her own happiness?Ella Hicksons play The Authorised Kate Bane first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in October 2012 in a production by Grid Iron Theatre Company. It then transferred to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow.

The Revengers ComediesA hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after intermission to reveal an immensely disturbing vision of contemporary middle-class England poisoned by the rise of economic ruthlessness and the collapse of ethics. New York Times Things We Do for LoveLloyds Private Banking Playwright of the Year AwardOne of his best, his most shockingly and uproariously funny: a cruel and hilarious masterpiece of tragic comedy and comic tragedy. Sunday TimesHouse & GardenThe triumph of his ingenuity lies in the fact that you have to see both plays . . . A second time round, in whichever order you take them, characters will deepen, while those you know become the background. It is a superb Ayckbourn joke that a comedy about non-communication should depend on the sharpest communication skills. Sunday Times

Snake in the GrassA terrific piece - brilliant, bizarre and yet totally believable . . . In fact, its more than classic; its close to the top of its class. Yorkshire PostIf I Were YouA blissfully funny comedy thats also filled with sadness, a devilishly simple theatrical idea that spins out all kinds of complex truths about human nature. Daily TelegraphLife and BethA wise, humane, funny play about the inevitability of death and the continuity of life. GuardianMy Wonderful DayA transformation happens as magical as the most magnificent pantomime transformation anyone could ever imagine . . . the playwright dissolves the paraphernalia of our adult selves and uncovers that space inside each of us that is still the child we once were. ObserverLife of RileyAs perceptive as ever . . . Ayckbourn has once again achieved a satisfyingly rich, tragi-comic complexity. Daily Telegraph

David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation. In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent to a remote island. Together with its authoritarian leaseholder and his niece they observe an innocence that is about to be destroyed forever. San Diego offers a strange and occasionally nightmarish journey into the heart of the contemporary American dream, weaving together stories of illegal immigrants, of film stars and whores, and even of the playwright himself. Pyrenees follows a man found lying in the snow in the foothills as he tries to piece together his identity. In The American Pilot a crash-landing in a remote valley in a distant country raises questions about how the world sees America and how America sees the world. The collection also includes a trilogy of short plays, Being Norwegian, Kyoto and Brewers Fayre, published here for the first time. Outlying IslandI cant recommend it highly enough . . . A rich, charged play, veering between the comic and the poetic as innocence gives way to experience.TelegraphSan DiegoA surreal and intriguing piece of theatre . . . dazzling . . . Home and awake from the mythical dream that is San Diego, the name David Greig remains imprinted on our minds.IndependentPyreneesAll the wit and intelligence of previous works, probing away at concerns that are both contemporary and timeless...A classy, rewarding, engaging drama, Greigs best to date. The Times The American PilotOne of the most intellectually stimulating dramatists around. A richly provocative new play.Guardian

Jesse is paranoid and frightened, and its messing up his relationship, his job, his son and his life. But Jesse has every reason to be frightened; he is increasingly feeling the sting of rising prejudice in every part of his life.Stephen Laughtons play One Jewish Boy explores key moments over an eight-year relationship between a nice Jewish boy from North London and the nice, not-so-Jewish woman with whom he falls in love.An urgent response to anti-Semitism, this bittersweet comedy focuses on one young familys struggle against prejudice, and asks if the fear of hatred could be worse than hate itself? It was first produced at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, in 2018, before transferring to Trafalgar Studios in Londons West End in 2020.This edition also includes the short play Three.

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern-day comprehensive school. A teacher valiantly battles on with biology revision. She believes only education will set her pupils free. For outside the classroom, the world is in the middle of a long and bloody war.Despite her best efforts, the tide of conflict is soon lapping at the school gates and, one by one, pupils and teacher are pulled under as their hopes and dreams float away from them.Sam Holcrofts play Cockroach was first staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland in 2008.Sam Holcroft is uncompromising in her ideas and deeply ambitious for the power of theatre. Its a long time since a young writer has thrilled me this much Vicky Featherstone, director of the National Theatre of Scotlands production of Cockroach

Two plays by award-winning playwright Ella Hickson.Precious Little Talent is about a father desperate not to forget his daughter and two young people determined not to be forgotten by the world.It was first performed at the Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and later, in a revised, full-length production, at the Trafalgar Studios, London, in April 2011.Hot Mess is a dark and lyrical tale about friendship, loss and loneliness. Twins Polo and Twitch were born with only one heart between them: where Polo is not looking to be loved, Twitch can do nothing but.Hot Mess was first performed at the Hawke & Hunter Below Stairs Nightclub, Edinburgh, in August 2010, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.