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Kwame Kwei-Armah's third play for the National Theatre opens in November 2007 and takes a punchy, provocative look at the Black British experience and the need, or not, for solidarity.

Opening at Teatr Dramatyczny, Warsaw, in November 2007 in a production by the internationally acclaimed director, Robert Wilson, Symptomes is Gabriella Maione's first full length play.

Davey has seen something he can't forget. Anita has been forced to flee her home. These two have never met. Tonight their paths cross with devastating consequences. Vincent River received its West End premiere at the Trafalgar Studios on 30 October 2007.

My Child is a gut-wrenching exploration of the lengths a father will go to to have access to his child. It was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 2007.

Set in late 13th-century Italy, where power struggles erupt between the Church, the propertied and the landless. The conflict inspires such characters as the spineless Charles II, a paid killer, a mad woman and Pope Celestine V to provoke a crisis of faith. Barnes also wrote "The Ruling Class".

The only full-length stage play by the acclaimed novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury

A programme text of this tender, moving play about the aftermath of a family tragedy, which has its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre, London, in October 2008.

A programme text edition of Leo Butler's new two-hander for the Royal Court that opens in October 2008.

"Being on a tightrope is living, everything else is waiting."When Gary Maddocks rejoins Mike Evans and his Counter IED Team in Afghanistan he is pleased. He has been finding life back home with Emma dull and is impatient to get back to the job he loves, but if he had known what fate had in store for him would he have been so eager? Of course he would: it's like an addiction, and if your luck runs out there's nothing you can do about it, is there? But was it bad luck, faulty equipment, or something worse? Mike has been acting strange lately and Emma appears to be hiding something.When you step on a pressure plate you think you hear the click, or you think you feel it, but you don't know for sure. And you can't know because what you remember . . . well some of it isn't real.Ross Ericson's play Casualties explores how love, friendship and truth are not so certain in the context of war.

A revised edition of Michael Frayn's comedy set in a provincial newspaper office, Alphabetical Order won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy when it transferred from the Hampstead Theatre to the West End in 1975.

When Franz's mother escaped to the West with one of her identical twin boys, she left the other behind. Now, twenty-five years later, Karl crosses the border in search of his other half. Mark Ravenhill's visceral new play examines the hungers released when two countries, separated by a common language, meet again.

An epic family drama, shot through with dark humour, The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant tells the tragic story of a family disintegrating, having lost its moral values. The latest play by leading Irish playwright Tom Murphy, it was produced at the Abbey Theatre in June 2009.

A programme text of two short plays that examine the darker side of Scottish families and which were presented as a double-bill at the Traverse Theatre in November 2009.

Moonfleece is an intense and thrilling exploration of memory and identity, and is the most directly political play to date by leading playwright Philip Ridley. Set in an abandoned council flat, Moonfleece centres on a young, right-wing activist forced to reassess his personal and political beliefs.

Philip Ridley's multi-award-winning play caused a sensation when it premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1992. A provocative and edgy drama, it is now regarded as a contemporary classic. Set in a strange room in East London, party preparations are underway but the presence of a very, very sharp knife does not bode well for an entirely happy birthday.

A programme text edition of Billy Wonderful published to coincide with the world premiere at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, on 12 March 2009.

Gathered in a kosher bar in North London are a foulmouthed cabbie, who can't stop blubbing, an old woman in a wheelchair, who hears only what she chooses to, and the world's worst waitress, wearing nothing but her smalls. Joining them is a man with no name who takes them on at their own game.

A comedy of ice-cream making and family rivalries in Manchester's Italian Community. When ice-cream man Giuseppe Raffa decides to set his two sons in competition with each other. Supported and obstructed by Rocco's wife Bernie and Lino's girlfriend Lulu, the fight quickly becomes a serious business. And soon everybody's screaming for ice-cream...

Katrina uses survivor testimonies and the rich musical tradition of New Orleans to tell the story of the immediate aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Jericho House production at the Barge House, Oxo Tower Wharf Sept 2009.

An entertaining yet socially acerbic and poignant tale of old age for the 21st century.

A visceral play about friendship, teenage recklessness, futile ambitions and frustrated hopes.

To be like this. All the swagger and front, deals and deadlines, and keep you head down and your mouth shut might just one day bring him nearer to this. Different worlds.Matthew and Naomi await the arrival of Ryan and Kelly. They'll meet for one night of unlimited pleasure, then part, that's the agreement, that's the plan . . . but can they stick to it? Contact.com is a taut drama of sexual and class politics, first performed at the Park Theatre, London, in January 2015.

Anyway. I was just wondering if you had any jobs at all? . . . Yeah . . . like . . . media. Something to do with media stuff . . . Where am I based? Well, currently Herefordshire but . . . sorry . . . that's too far away . . . too far away from what? . . . Oh . . . ok.Paul is trying to find a job. Snowy is trying to find himself. But when Snowy stumbles across an ailing cow stuck in a local field, he ropes Paul into trying to help the cow, either to improve its lot or put it out of its misery.What follows is a hilarious procession of failed suffocations, experiments with a saw and trip to the train tracks in this funny and moving black comedy about friendship, unemployment and a cow called Sandy.Milked premiered in a production by Pentabus Theatre Company in November 2013. This edition is published to coincide with the revival and national tour, beginning February 2015.

A programme text edition of Nick Grosso's tough piercing new comedy exploring the dynamics of addiction, from The X Factor to Class A drugs.

In Evelyn Dwyer's madcap B&B, a motley collection of characters is bound together by a dark secret from the past. What has Evelyn been hiding all these years? Why has her brother returned from America? Why has Ella found religion? And what is the mysterious presence that haunts their lives?

Set in a time of political and social unrest the play focuses on one family and the destructive conflict within their home.

On a farm in the North East of England a family gathers. Three of the UK's leading playwrights come together to create an epic play about the very end of time.

DC Moore's Northampton-based play Town is coupled with his hard-hitting, hilarious monologue Honest.

A play by critically acclaimed and prize-winning playwright, Shelley Silas, this original and funny play explores cultural traditions and clashes.

A History of Falling Things is a gentle love story about a young man and woman forced to confront their fears of the outside world and discover what really matters to their lives.