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Kill the Old Torture their Young is an urban tragi-comedy from the acclaimed writer of Knives in Hens, one of Scotland's most talented new playwrights

A sharp and hilarious biographical play based on the life of Carry On star Sid James

This text offers the two comic plays previously staged in London in February 2000.

Rachel Keats is growing up in a town she doesn't like. Abandoned by her mother, she is left to bring up her younger brother. When her new partner starts to abuse her, and those she loves leave her behind, will she stay or will she find the strength to make her own way in the world?

This work is the last play by Sarah Kane, the controversial contemporary British playwright, who died aged 28 in February 1999. A single voice, dragged through therapy and endless medication, reveals the true experience of clinical depression.

"Breath, Boom" is a play that explores the life of a hardened New York gang member whose chief obsession is the creation of the perfect fireworks display. The author considers this marginal character's attitude to her own perilous existence.

When Derek's girlfriend Kath decides to move in with him she follows the advice of her favourite chat-show host and asks to meet his family. Derek's mother is in a nursing home, resentful of June, the limbless patient who gets all the attention. Her only saving grace is her assistant, Larry.

Lillian, a young clerk in a department store, impulsively steals a watch from the store to replace the one Frederic, her boyfriend, lost. Over the next 24 hours both their lives twist and turn in ways they never expected.

In "Down the Line", the Walshes are a middle class suburban Dublin family. It is the 1980s and Eve and James have reared four children. Almost. In "The Hunt for Red Willie" a local landlord meets his end while in pursuit of the notorious Red Willie. Foul play is suspected and the hunt is on.

The Glee Club, made up of five hard-working, hard-drinking miners and a church organist, is preparing for the local gala. This is the summer of 1962; music and much else is about to change - so too the lives of these six men. Nothing and no-one will ever be the same again.

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

Commander Vimes is sent to wild and wintry Uberwald to establish trade links with the King of Dwarfs but he ends up trying to stop an inter-species war. He may have arrived as Ankh-Morpork's ambassador but soon finds it's not all chocolate balls when he's being chased by fascist werewolves.

A senile bedridden old woman rehearses over and over again an epic tale of a village laughing match. Meanwhile her two granddaughters struggle to release themselves from the prison of remembered unhappiness.

An RSC commission to commemorate the first celebration of Shakespeare's life and works. A mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry. This irreverent comedy dissects the cult of the theatrical personality, with guest appearances from the Bard himself and Sir Peter Hall.

Set around Limehouse Cut and the Lee River in East London, "Herons" is the story of 14-year-old Billy, whose life has been made a misery by his father's actions. As the teenagers that surrond him on his estate step up their campaign of bullying, the play escalates to a violent climax.

Foley is the last of his family, among the last Protestants in the Republic of Ireland. He is attempting to recall his life, but memory is a fickle thing.

A new edition of Doug Lucie's most celebrated plays - "Fashion", "Progress", "Hard Feelings" and "Doing the Business".

D'you ever look in the mirror and you don't recognise the person looking back at you?

The term "Boston Marriage" is 19th century slang for the implied relationship between women who lived together, independent of men. This play examines the shifting and ambiguous relationship between two such women, Claire and Anna.

Strictly Dandia, Tamasha Theatre Company's new play, takes us into the competitive world of the Navratri Festival where regional and caste rivalries abound in a bid to outdo each other with smart moves and step variations.

Life for Faz and his twitty assistant, Twoo, has become listless and lacking in sparkle. That is, until Faz invents skungpoomery, or "thinking up a word and then doing it". And so saying, Faz and Twoo bunkjam jarmer into the world outside. Ken Campbell has also written "Furtive Nudist".

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

Mark Ravenhill's play "Mother Clap's Molly House" explores the gay subculture of 18th-century London.

In financial and emotional despair, Suzanne returns to live with her mother. Instead of finding peace of mind however, her already complicated life becomes even more chaotic. A rocky relationship with her foster son Luka, a one-night stand and having to handle her mother's boyfriend doesn't help.

With "The Sanctuary Lamp" the author takes a hallowed institution and populates it with social misfits who desecrate every convention in both thought and action.

A major new play, with its world premiere at London's Almeida Theatre

"Thrilling...unforgettable, maybe even life-changing...it has the inevitablity and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy" (USA today)

A new play by an exciting young American writer, presented at London's Royal Court Theatre

A grocer and his wife dissatisfied by a play's progress invade the stage and commandeer the play to suit their tastes. A chaotic play within a play erupts, as each group attempts to carry on despite the unscripted interventions. Written in 1607, this is a comedy from a successor of Shakespeare.