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Two plays by one of Britain's most prolific young black authors

Hippolytus, the spoiled prince, is driven to preserve his self inviolate. Emotions, particularly love, and need of any type are an unbearable threat to the prince. Phaedra, his stepmother, is in love with him. The impossibility of the situation leads to their bloody destruction.

In this exploration of love and relationships, Cannon explores how much you need to see of someone to know they are worth taking a chance on.

Investigates desire, mortality, shame and redemption in a peculiarly English setting - a small town in Derbyshire - a provincial world that is vanishing before the eyes of its inhabitants.

A reissue of Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist - a sharp satire on police corruption. The play concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters' window.

Learn a good wind-up, learn the pull of cash, learn drugs, learn sex, and run wild with the market monkeys. Stay sharp in the ruthless world of Essex traders. Romford Market, 1985 - this boy has everything to learn. This work presents a story about losing your innocence, and your cherry.

"The greatest American playwright of his generation" (New York Magazine)

Features blackly humorous drama of Einstein's tortured conscience. This book is a thought-provoking drama addressing issues of 'yob' culture and the effects of bullying. It commemorates the World Year of Physics, the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the 50th anniversary of Einstein's death.

In 1940's New York, the performer who everyone wanted to see live was Florence Foster Jenkins, an enthusiastic soprano whose pitch was far from perfect. Based upon a true story, the play spins from Florence's recitals and extravagant balls, through to her bizarre recording sessions and her triumph at Carnegie Hall in this heart-warming comedy.

Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship

Two exhilarating plays by the author of Shopping and F***ing: pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success; Citizenship is a work for young people written for the National Theatre's Shell Connection Programme.

Piano/Forte is a bold new comedy staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2006. On the eve of his wedding to the glamorous Dawn, Clifford's plans for a joyous celebration are thrown into turmoil by the return home of his estranged daughter Louise. Her plans to exact revenge prove to have explosive consequences.

David Eldridge's new version of Henrik Ibsen's penultimate play, produced at the Donmar Theatre in February 2007.

Coach and Bossman are a dynamic duo tearing up the airwaves at Borough FM. Together they have become radio heroes, but someone's getting above their station, putting Borough FM in the shade. 93.2FM is a sharp comedy about friendship, dreams and the conflict awakened by ambition.

A two-play edition featuring Anthony Neilson's companion plays, The Wonderful World of Dissocia and Realism, both produced by the National Theatre of Scotland. The text is published to coincide with the National Theatre of Scotland's extensive tour of Dissocia from February til June 2007.

Ghosts is published to coincide with the Gate Theatre's production of Amelia Bullmore's new translation of Ibsen's classic.

A play about love, family and the price of retribution The May Queen is a dark and brutal thriller set against the backdrop of wartime Merseyside. This is a programme text edition produced in collaboration with Liverpool Everyman Theatre where the play opens in May 2007.

Produced as a programme text for the world premiere of the work at the Royal Court Theatre's Theatre Upstairs, Alaska explores the life and lies of Frank in a play that raises questions about identity and race in modern Britain.

A debut work produced at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007 as part of its Young Writers Festival and published as a programme text. Gone Too Far! is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture. It was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008.

Aalst is a powerful and disturbing drama about two parents who murder their children. The play is based on real events from the Belgian town of Aalst in 1999 where the ensuing high profile and dramatic trial led to much soul-searching in the Belgian media.

This volume contains the three most recent plays by the playwright credited with bringing poetic drama back to the Irish stage. The plays are "White Woman Street", "Steward of Christendom" and "The Only True History of Lizzie Finn".

Based on the Booker-shortlisted novel by Rohinton Mistry and adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, this programme text edition of A Fine Balance is published to coincide with Tamasha Theatre Company's 2007 revival and tour of the hit play.

A scintillating absurdist comedy about beauty, identity and getting ahead in life, published as a programme text for its British premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2007.

An epic new play by Leo Butler written in response to The Tempest, commissioned and produced by the RSC and opening at the Tricycle Theatre, London, in February 2008.

Joe Guy is a powerful new drama about race and prejudice within the black community that opens at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, in October 2007. This is a programme text edition.

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

A programme text of an uplifting play produced by Graeae, Britain's foremost disabled-led theatre company, and touring to Ipswich, Plymouth and London.

A collection of four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn.

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.