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Lucy Prebble is one of Britain's foremost writers for the stage and screen. This eagerly anticipated play collection brings together her landmark plays for the first time, showcasing her work from 2003 to 2019. Beginning with her George Devine Award-winning play The Sugar Syndrome it continues through her explosive look at the biggest financial scandal in history, concluding with her pointed dramatization of the one of the most shocking news stories of the 2010s. The Sugar Syndrome (2003) Dani is on a mission. She's just 17, hates her parents, skives college and prefers life in the chatrooms. What she's looking for is someone honest and direct. Instead she finds Tim, a man twice her age, who thinks she is 11 and a boy. What seems at first to be a case of crossed wires, ends up as an unlikely, and unsettling friendship between the two, which culminates in a shocking, and morally challenging revelation.Enron (2009) One of the most infamous scandals in financial history became a theatrical epic in Enron, a dazzling exposition of the shadowy mechanisms of economic deceit. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy and surreal metaphor, Enron follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s, and the financial chaos which has spilled over into the new century.The Effect (2012) a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved.A Very Expensive Poison (2019) A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair.

This collection of Jim Cartwright's plays includes "Road", "Bed", "Two" and "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice".

The sixth collection of plays from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, including the world-conquering hit One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as Young Marx, his riotous take on Karl Marx's life in London, which launched London's new Bridge Theatre and The Hypocrite, a historical-farcical romp that lit up Hull's year as City of Culture.One Man, Two GuvnorsBased on Carlo Goldoni's classic Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters, sex, food and money are high on the agenda.Winner of the both 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Best New Play & Critic's Circle Best New Play awards.Young MarxCreditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted genius, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there's still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx.The HypocriteApril 1642. Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, is charged by Parliament to secure the arsenal at Hull and deny entry to King Charles I. If only it were that simple. With a Royalist siege outside the city walls and the rebellion of the mob within, Civil War seems inevitable and losing his head more than probable.

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

This collection brings together four of the early plays from the winner of the 2002 Pearson Best New Play Award. Since "Bluebird" in 1998, Stephens has gained recognition for humane plays that display a sharp observation and compassionate response to the lives of ordinary people in urban locations.

Stephens Plays: 2 brings together four major plays by this award-winning playwright from the first decade of the twenty-first century and the short play Sea Wall, frist produced at the Bush Theatre in October 2008. The collection features an introduction by the author.

This volume contains the complete collection of Sarah Kane's plays, including "Blasted"; "Phaedra's Love"; "Cleansed"; "Crave"; "4.48 Psychosis"; and "Skin".

A second collection of plays from one of Britain's most original dramatists

This volume contains three plays by Arnold Wesker: "Chicken Soup with Barley", "Roots" and "I'm Talking About Jerusalem".

In the METHUEN CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS series this collection contains Nagy's best known plays; "Weldon Rising", "Disappeared", "The Strip", and "Butterfly Kiss".

The author is widely studied on school and university syllabuses and this collection of four of his plays includes two which were premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1969 and 1970 and one which will premiere in October. By the author of "Saville", which won the Booker Prize.

Three plays by comic dramatist Michael Frayn, compiled as a follow-up edition to "Michael Frayn Plays: One". Included is Frayn's adaptation of Chekhov's first play, here called "Wild Honey". "Balmoral" and "Benefactors" are touched by politics and social indictments of people and systems.

In the METHUEN CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS series, this collection includes The War Plays (Red Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People, Great Peace) and Choruses from After the Assassinations. Includes a commentary by the author.

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 volume contains plays from the '70s and '80s, which offer a wide ranging critique of society and human relationships. Included are "The Bundle", "Human Condition", "Jackets" and "In the Company of Men". The volume also includes Bond's notes on postmodernism.

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

Three plays by multi-award winning playwright, Patrick Marber: an enthralling close-up of the demons which drive compulsive gamblers (Dealer's Choice); a reimagining of Strindberg's Miss Julie set on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945,and in Closer one of the best plays about sexual politics in the language.

This first collection of Mike Bartlett's plays showcases the adroit expertise and flair of a writer known for laser-sharp political comment, tight dialectics and needlingly real characters. Charting Mike Bartlett's stellar rise as a playwright, this volume is introduced by Sacha Wares.

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

Includes the plays HER BREAKING HEART, NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU, THE TWO MARIAS and ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, with an introduction by the author. Lavery was Resident Writer at the Unicorn Theatre for Children and has written many plays for children and adults and some cabarets.

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

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".

"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre" (Observer)

This volume includes the "Evening Standard" Award-winning play "Talent", and Victoria Wood's other stage play "Good Fun", both premiered at the Sheffield Crucible. Alongside these plays are three TV scripts, including the acclaimed "Pat and Margaret".

Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time

A collection of plays by Sarah Daniels which includes "Beside Herself", "Gut Girls", "Headrot Holiday" and "The Madness of Esme and Shaz".

If there is anyone who should be the children's playwright laureate it is David Wood' (Evening Standard)