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The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixti

"Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties ... the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today ... Bond's plays cannot be ignored" (Independent)

This collection of plays by one of Britain's most prominent political dramatists offers the best of his work from the 1980s. The plays include "The Romans in Britain", "Thirteenth Night", "The Genius", "Bloody Poetry" and "Greenland".

The second in a series of "World Classics" presenting David Mamet's stage plays. Those in this volume date from the 1980s.

This is a collection of Joe Penhall's plays, beginning with "Some Voices" and "Pale Horse", which both premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1994 and 1995 respectively.

This selection of David Edgar's dramatic work features three plays: "Ecclesiastes", a late 1970s radio play; his acclaimed stage version of "Nicholas Nickleby"; and "Entertaining Strangers", an English left-wing social drama.

The third volume of Poliakoff's plays in the "Contemporary Dramatists" series contains his award-winning screenplays, "Caught on a Train" (BAFTA for Best Single Play, 1980), and "Close My Eyes" ("Evening Standard" Best Picture of 1991), and the play "Coming in to Land".

A collection of four plays by Richard Cameron.

Contains three of Tom Murphy's plays "Famine", "The Patriot Game" and "The Blue Macushia", which has never before appeared in print. Tom Murphy is an Irish playwright whose work has been staged at the Royal Court, Warehouse and Almeida theatres.

The second volume of plays by the author, includes Truly, Madly, Deeply

This is a collection of four plays from the winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. Wole Soyinka's work often features in GCSE and A level texts, as well as being studied at university level. She looks at African tradition by often using dance and music in her work.

First publication of up-to-date playable translations of Brecht. Mr Puntila, Mother Courage and A Servant to Two Masters were huge hits when they transferred to the West End.

The "Street of Crocodiles" creates a vision of provincial Poland in the early part of the century as a restless ocean of unending flux. "Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol" offers an unsentimental evocation of peasant life, while an ice-preserved body forms the central image of "Mnemonic".

This collection of Ben Elton plays includes three works: "Gasping" is a satire on yuppiedom, advertising and corporate greed; "Silly Cow" is a satire on the modern world; and "Popcorn" adopts the sick humour, violence and sexiness of the Stone-Tarantino school of film-making.

This second collection from Britain's third most-performed playwright includes "Teechers"; "Happy Jack"; "September in the Rain"; and "Salt of the Earth" and provides a companion volume to "John Godber: Plays 1".

This collection of plays by one of Britain's most controversial dramatists includes "The Ruling Class", "Leonardo's Last Supper and Noonday Demons", "The Bewitched", "Barnes' People: Eight Monologues".

Contains Bond's plays from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bond is one of Britain's most widely read and staged playwrights, whose first play, "Saved", made a successful appearance at the Royal Court in 1965. His plays offer political and moral critiques of human society and relationships.

Includes the early plays, "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg", "The National Health" and "Forget-Me-Not Lane". Each play is introduced by the author with extracts from his diary. This edition is being published alongside "Nichols Plays: Two".

Six plays by David Mercer, compiled as a follow-up edition to "David Mercer Plays: One". Three of the plays in this volume were premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

"Europe" is set at a railway station in a town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love and loss. "The Architect" charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, an idealistic designer whose visions are now crumbling. "The Cosmonaut's Last Message..." tells the stories of an eclectic mix of people.

First collection by a young dramatist with few peers. This volume showcases the best four early plays by the writer behind the smash hit stage adaptation of Festen Serving It Up - a 'precociously deceptive' debut play about East End loutishness.

A collection of 8 plays by British black comedy writer Lee Hall. It includes: "Spoonface Steinberg", a play on faith, love and the meaning of life; "Cooking with Elvis", the story of a family of an Elvis impersonator now tied to a wheelchair; and "Bollocks!", an examination of lives ruined by war.

First collection of seminal plays by one of Wales' most talented writers

Three plays by well-known American playwright, David Mamet. His play "American Buffalo" won an Obie Award and opened on Broadway in 1977 and at the National Theatre in 1978. His greatest hits, "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Oleanna" followed in 1983 and 1993 respectively.

Three plays by one of Europe's most important playwrights, including "The Crime of the Twenty-first Century", "Olly's Prison" and "Coffee".

The English translations of four of the plays of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, France's most successful contemporary playwright. The work includes: "Don Juan on Trial"; "The Visitor"; "Enigma Variations" and "The Space Between Two Worlds", a metaphysical comedy set in the "Two Worlds Hotel".

This third collection from playwright John Godber includes "April in Paris", "Up 'n' Under" and "Perfect Pitch" and provides a companion volume to John Godber Plays 1 and 2.

Murphy Plays: 5 brings together four of the authors recent works: The Wake, Too Late for Logic, The House, and Alice Trilogy. It is published to coincide with the Irish premiere of Alice Trilogy at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

A first collection of plays by the winner of the 2001 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.

The first collection of plays by the author of the successful trilogy of work produced at the National Theatre between 2003 and 2008. Besides Elmina's Kitchen, winner of the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, the volume contains Fix Up, Statement of Regret and Let There Be Love.