Böcker i Modern Plays-serien

Produced by nabokov in association with the Bush Theatre, Artefacts by Mike Bartlett is published to coincide with the world premiere on 20 February, 2008.

Translated by David Harrower, this version of Brecht's parable play is based on a previously unpublished version of the play.

Tartuffe, or The Impostor (pronounced: [taRtuf]; French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Moliere, and the characters of Tartuffe, Valere, and Dorine are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. This is a translation for the stage by Ranjit Bolt.

Two plays about cultural identity from Scotland and Catalonia, which received their English-language premieres in August 1999 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in Traverse Theatre Company productions

A programme text edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 27 February 2009

A programme text edition of Bola Agbaje's new play for the Royal Court, Off the Endz is a savvy, astute play which portrays an under-represented slice of society with skill and compassion.

Daisy abandons recently released ex-convict Lenny at their local. At the bar is Skank, a failed actor-turned-junkie. De Maris, a 17-year-old gun-brandishing single mother wants to learn to turn tricks. Guirgis presents a grim and sad portrait of life on the streets of New York.

Bob and Sam are two regular guys chewing the fat, putting the world to rights over a bottle of Jack Daniels and a game of poker, apparently trapped in an empty bar-room in this latter-day America Waiting for Godot.

Anthony's seen the cranes go up. He's living in the Capital of Culture. So why is it that everything in the Dingle feels the same? What's a boy to do if he wants to talk about the latest subtitled film and drink green tea? This work is a comedy about one young man's dream of escaping Liverpool.

Six Degrees of Separation is a modern American classic play: an explosive comedy that exposes white middle-class hypocrisy and prejudice.

A dramatization of a conspiracy theory surrounding Kennedy's assassination. It's the 1990s, and Lynette, an ex-assistant editor at "LIFE" magazine, now living in obscurity, has gathered her family around her to celebrate her birthday. She has a secret that she needs to confide in them.

Canary is multi-award winning playwright Jonathan Harvey's long-awaited return to the stage: a deeply moving, funny, unflinching, and often magical story about love, honesty and being brave enough to sing out at the top of your voice - with style.

In Polar Bears, award-winning writer Mark Haddon balances humour and pathos to tell of one man's struggle to love, support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition.

A naked satire on the rule of General Abacha in Nigeria, the play chronicles the debauched rule of General Basha Bash who takes power in a coup and exchanges his general's uniform for a robe and crown re-christening himself King Babu.

A bitterly ironic portrait of Nigeria after Biafra

Two plays exploring the pain of living and the difficulty of dying by a sensational new writer

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller ranks as one of the greatest figures in European drama and literature.

B for Baby is a tender, sharp-witted new play set in a residential care home for people with severe learning disabilities.

The first play by leading Scottish novelist Cathy Forde, is a fast, furious exploration of a teenage life: its pressures and its carefree fun. It is especially suitable for young people.

Realism is a study of the mind of Stuart who can be considered to be totally normal. It is a representation of a typical day in which nothing much happens. In Anthony Neilson's hilarious, surreal and brilliantly crafted tragi-comedy, we witness the meeting of the conscious and the unconscious mind against a backdrop of normality.

Two plays for young people. The first deals with two events involving the same person - one as a teenager and the other years later. The text of the second is accompanied by rehearsal and teaching notes. A young girl is changed for ever by her soldier boyfriend, returning from active service.

A fortune-teller's teasing rumination sends Edmond lurching into New York City's hellish underworld, his whole life abandoned in a searing quest for self-discovery and redemption.

Published to coincide with its European premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in March 2008, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is Stephen Adly Guirgis' hilarious and extraordinary courtroom drama about the greatest human betrayal.

One of a series of drama texts published to coincide with theatrical premieres of new plays and translations.

Published to tie-in with the world premiere of Noel Coward's forgotten play in 2001, this version of Star Quality is adapted from Coward's unpublished play and his short story of the same name. The play takes us behind the scenes of a West End production.

George is on the hunt for the man who is seducing his wife Ruth, a lecturer in film noir at the University. When Morris, Ruth's seducer, turns up as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant, things take a sinister turn for the worse. This is a dark comedy of desire, dreams and coincidental disappearances.

Pez and Eck are on the hunt for the perfect society in "a city where free men might live like birds". But when they start building the bird city for real, Pez starts to have ambitions. As the fantasy utopia threatens to turn into a tyrany, the birds start to rebel.

Talks about Cold-War betrayal and the quest for justice. Inspired by a true story, this title explores the mysterious corridors of history to reveal the anguish of a family and a quest for atonement.

Alan and Nicola are a couple desperate to keep pace with the boom time. However, when Alan's sister Amy is involved in a scandal, Alan finds himself questioning his values and wondering if he can cut it in this world of material success. This work casts on contemporary Dublin and the malaise of a generation seduced by money, status and self.