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A surreal fantasy plunging Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into a perilous intergalactic conflict

Set against the inexorable march of progress in contemporary London, Kwame Kwei-Armah's second play for the National explores race and roots with verve and wit.

A darkly humorous look at the flip side of home-sweet-home

Gripping drama of teenage struggle by talented new writer

Alistair Beaton's new play, part farce, part biting satire, on modern politics, New Labour and the fine art of spin is set in the plush seaside hotel of a party conference as anti-capitalist riots rage in the streets below.

"You will come back though won't yer, Darren? Yer will come back? Say yer'll come back. Come back." Lucy is 17. She dreams of love, security and a bright future. However, first she must confront reality - and reality means deciding who to trust.

Shepard's play, "State of Shock", turns an anniversary party into a reopening of the wounds of war, sex and family betrayal. This volume includes his screenplays for the films "Far North", which explores the gap between generations and genders, and "Silent Tongue", about white settlers in America.

A play by the author of "The Furtive Nudist", "Clown Plays" and "Skungpoomery".

In "Remember This", the author looks at the role that technology plays in all our lives. The video camera becomes an interruption in the daily existence of Rick and Victoria as the couple prepare for their wedding, and begins to take over their lives.

A new, uncompromising political thriller exploring with electrifying theatricality the events of the Suez Crisis, and the tragic story of its flawed hero - Churchill's golden boy and heir apparent, Anthony Eden.

Musical drama of Judy Garland's "come-back" concerts

Days of Significance is the new work by Roy Williams commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and staged at the Swan Theatre in January 2007.

Written in the 15th century by Johannes Von Saaz, "Death and the Ploughman" is a dialogue between Death and a widowed farmer. West has dramatized it here as an adversarial duel where the farmer's defence of mankind is as strong as Death's ruthless prosecution of his own cause.

Presents the tale of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, one of Britain's finest comedy double-acts. This is a comedy bringing to life the comic genius and flawed relationship of Moore and Cook.

Lauren's come back for Christmas dinner, she's pregnant at fifteen, but she's not staying. They've found her a place with a creche so she can do her exams. This publication shows a harsh slice of life from "What's in the Cat" premiered at Contact Theatre, Manchester, in November 2005.

When one man goes to war he leaves the city, his wife and brother. A year later only the wife and brother remain. This work asks what happens when people and events apparently thousands of miles away affect the heart and soul of a city.

Frayn's sparkling comedy about a university reunion, currently revived in the West End

The play revolves around the aftermath of a military coup d'etat in a "fictional" Trinidad and Tobago. The playwrights other work includes "Play Mas", "Independence" and "Meetings".

A play by one of Britain's foremost verse playwrights

Danny returns from Basra to a foreign England and a different kind of battle. He visits an old flame, buys a gun and goes on a blistering road trip through the new home front. Written during the London bombings of 2005, this work is a response to the anti-war movement - and to the war itself.

The text of the new Poliakoff play to be premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company, London, in the summer of 1998.

Two plays by a young British playwright who is fast making a name for himself. Williams is winner of the 1998-99 John Whiting Award for Best New Play and 1998 Alfred Fagon Award (both for Starstruck) and 1996 TAPS Writer of the Year Award

An ordinary man is forced to confront both his own demons and the manifestation of the supernatural beyond his comprehension and control

When his fingers slip away from his father's hand, one boy's destiny changes forever. In the chaos of border crossing between India and the newly formed Pakistan, a small boy called Pali suddenly finds himself lost and alone. Taken in to a Muslim family he is given a new name, and a new faith - Islam.

The Crimson Hotel is a hilarious absurdist comedy by one of Britain's greatest living playwrights. The play has its world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, on 25 July 2007. The volume also features the 1991 one-act play, Audience.

Set in a mythical Chicago, Saint Joan of the Stockyards tells the story of a Salvation Army lieutenant who challenges the power of Pierpoint Mauler, the meat king. The play, which was never staged in Brecht's lifetime, is published here with a new translation and introductory notes.

Godfrey's "The Blue Ball" is a large-scale work which presents an imaginative investigation of the experience of space travel. It is a play which shows overwhelming emotion meeting obsessive scientific routine, and explores the wonder and shock of the imagination made real.

"A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life" (The Times)

This monologue features Cathar heretics, a mysterious female French book thief and an oriental violinist who does pig impressions.