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A scintillating collection of five plays from the last sixty years of Irish drama featuring work by Behan, Barry, Reid, Murphy, and McDonagh, and introduced by Patrick Lonergan.

Includes: I Can't Get Started by Declan Hughes; The Dogs by Donal O'Kelly; Down Onto Blue by Pom Boyd; Hidden Charges by Arthur Riordan; Danti-Dan by Gina Moxley; Mrs Sweeney by Paula Meehan

Five recent plays presented at the French Theatre Season, London "Agnes", Catherine Anne; "Le Renaud du Nord", Noelle Renaud; "Mickey La Torche", Natacha de Pontcharra; "Une Envie de Tuer sur le Bout de la Langue", Xavier Durringer; and "Encore une Annee pour Rien", Christopher Pellet.

Four short plays for young actors

A collection of four contemporary plays by homosexual writers: Playing by the Rules by Rod Dungate; Plague of Innocence by Noel Greig; Snow Orchid by Joe Pintauro; and the George Devine winner Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey.

Written by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, these plays trace the restless urban ambition in contemporary Irish drama to turn the past on its head and look back at the land with scepticism and sometimes a rough, rude glee.

An anthology of new Scottish plays selected by Ian Brown (former director of the Traverse theatre) and Mark Fisher (Editor of Theatre Scotland)

Four female British plays deal with a poet and her mother, a family's breakdown in communication, a woman who literally wrestles with her problems and the interaction of a group of office workers.

Four short plays for young actors

Three classic Spanish plays, made famous by Shakespeare and Webster

This third volume in an anthology of plays contains David Greig's "Europe", a border play based on the conflict in Europe; Joe Penhall's "Some Voices", a study of a young schizophrenic trying to get back on the rails; and Judy Upton's "Ashes and Sand", a topical play about teenage girl gangs.

Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love" and "The Marriage of Figaro".

The plays included in this volume are: "Death and the King's Horseman" by Wole Soyinka; "Anowa" by Ama Ata Aidoo; "The Chattering and the Song" by Femo Osofisan; "The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco" by Andrew Whalley; "Woza Albert!" by Percy Mtwa, et al; and "The Other War" by Alemseged Tesfai.

Four short plays for young actors

Selected by a panel of judges which included Times drama critic Irving Wardle and Adrian Mole creator Sue Townsend, Releevo, by a previously unperformed author, was the outright winner of the third Verity Bargate Award, established specifically to encourage new writers.

An anthology of plays written by women: "Purgatory in Ingolstadt" and "Pioneers in Ingolstadt", "Avant-garde", "Close Encounter" and "I Wasn't Aware of the Explosive" by Marieluise Fleisser; "Tokens of Affection" by Maureen Lawrence; and "Variations on a Theme by Clara Schumann by Sheila Yeger.

One of a series presenting plays by women writers which were staged in 1992-1993. This volume contains "The Woman Destroyed" by Simone de Beauvoir", "What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband" by Elfriede Jelinek, "The Choice" by Claire Luckham and "Weldon Rising" by Phyllis Nagy.

A collection of four plays written by homosexuals which speak bravely and confidently to all people in a positive affirmation of being homosexual. The plays are: "A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep", "Days of Cavafy", and two American plays, "Round Two" and "Wild Blue".

"Frontline Drama" is a series focusing on new original plays as well as adaptations, versions and translations. This volume is a follow up to "Adapting Classics", and focuses on adaptations of modern novels.

With Black Plays, Yvonne Brewster clearly demonstrated the need for a regular anthology to record the vitality of Black playwriting.

The filleting machine; You are my heart's delight; Shooting the legend; Wittgenstein on Tyne; Laughter when we're dead; Cold calling. These six titles make up Live Theatre, a celebration of the finest playwrights from the North East, spanning three generations.

Discusses four stage and film adaptations which demonstrate how contemporary dramatists have transformed well-known novels. The novels are Jane Austen's "Persuasion", Charles Dicken's "Great Expectations", Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter".