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Terry Johnson's most recent plays collected in a second volume and introduced by the author

"Madman and Specialists" examines the way in which war exposes and clarifies human conduct; "Opera Woynosi" is adpated from Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" and is a fierce assault on totalitarianism; and four other Wole Soyinka plays are included in this volume.

A collection of play adaptations by one of Britain's best-selling contemporary playwrights

In the METHUEN CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS series this collection contains "Digging for Fire", "New Morning", "Halloween Night", and "Love and a Bottle".

Released to follow on from "Michael Frayn Plays: 2", this anthology contains three of Frayn's plays: "Here"; "Now You Know"; and "La Bele Vivette". The plays explore time and space, official and unofficial secrets, idle curiosity and investigative purpose.

A collection of plays by the author Anthony Minghella who has also written for and directed films, including "Truly, Madly, Deeply" and the Channel 4 series, "What if it's Raining"."Made in Bangkok" was his first West End play and won the Olivier "Most Promising Playwright" Award.

This collection of Shelagh Stephenson plays offers her Olivier award-winning work - "A Memory of Water", "Five Kinds of Silence", "Experiment with an Air Pump", and "Ancient Lights".

The third volume of David Storey's plays includes: "The Changing Room", "Cromwell" and "Life Class".

This first volume in the world dramatists series explores the start of the career of television and stage dramatist, David Mercer, who was one of the first writers to recognize the fundamental difference of writing for television.

The second volume of Poliakoff's plays in the "Contemporay Dramatists" series contains his film-script, "Century", together with "She's Been Away" (filmed by Peter Hall with Peggy Ashcroft), and the stage plays for the RSC, "Breaking the Silence" and "Playing with Trains".

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

A mixture of social satire, comedy and tragedy. This volume contains two major plays, "Red Noses" and "Sunset Glories", and a series of three short plays on disability including "Nobody Here But Us Chickens". Two plays on figures from the past, "Columbus" and "Socrates" have also been included.

This collection of plays brings together a political farce, "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!", and "Elizabeth", a radical reinterpretation of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, along with "The Open Couple" and "An Ordinary Day", intimate one-act dramas written in collaboration with Fo's wife Franca Rame.

Represents some of the work of the Dublin playwright, Tom Murphy. "The Gigli Concert" had its London premiere at the Almeida Theatre in 1992. "Conversations on a Homecoming" was revived at the Abbey Theatre, and "Bailegangaire" was first performed in Galway and London in 1985.

This third collection of plays by David Edgar includes "Our Own People", "Teendreams", "Maydays" and "That Summer", encompassing some of his best work from the late 1970s and early 80s, demonstrating the range of one of Britain's major political playwrights.

The first in a series of volumes presenting Mamet's plays from the 1970s and 1980s, this book includes "Duck Variations", "Sexual Perversity in Chicago", "Squirrels", American Buffalo", "The Water Engine" and "Mr Happiness".

Formerly part of the "World Dramatists" series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued in a new format under the heading, "World Classics".

Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists

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

Brings together three major political plays, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist", "Mistero Buffo" and "Trumpets and Raspberries", along with two previously unpublished short farces - "The Virtuous Burglar" and "One was Nude and One Wore Tails".

A collection of plays by one of Ireland's finest dramatists of the 80s and 90s

In the METHUEN CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS series this collection contains four of Lucie's best plays from the 1980s; "Progress", "Fashion", "Grace", and "Gaucho".

Includes, among others, the plays, "The Freeway", "Privates on Parade" and "Passion Play". Each play is introduced by the author with extracts from his diary. This edition is being published alongside "Nichols Plays: One".

This is the first collection of the plays of Dermot Bolger, seen as at the cutting edge of Irish writing as a playwright, novelist, poet and editor.

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)