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'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David LanHanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.Plays Three contains the plays The Thin Soldier, Bachelors and Bachelorettes (2002), Everyone Wants to Live, The Constant Mourner (2019) and The Lamenters (2000).

First collection from leading black writer.

Plays One is the first volume of brand-new English translations of selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aiming to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.

Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time: Strange Fruit, Where There is Darkness, and The Shelter.

Presenting Bella Heesom's first two plays - My World Has Exploded A Little Bit and Rejoicing At Her Wondrous Vulva The Young Woman Applauded Herself - grappling with feminism, grief and female desire.

The first collection in English of plays by Marius von Mayenburg, one of Europe's most influential and widely produced playwrights

Three short plays from the multi-award-winning writer of Visitors

Presents four plays exploring issues with particular relevance to young audiences. This work deals with issues such as friendship, sexuality, migration and identity. It is a fusion of dance, theatre and music.

Presenting four plays, this work includes "Toast" where seven men come together to bake enough bread to feed the population of Hull. It also features "Honeymoon Suite" that deals with love, and middle manager Stephen England ("Mr England").

A collection of one-act plays by one of British Theatre's most distinctive voices, these short plays parade David Pinner's enthrallment with the political, the farcical, the sexual and, above all, the miserable. Contains the plays Cartoon, An Evening with the G.L.C., Shakebag, and Succubus.

One of the most consistently interesting and insightful playwrights working today, Political Plays shows an engagement with, and unravelling of, social conventions, gender stereotyping, and racial politics with a blistering wit. Plays includes Sugar Mummies, White Boy, Sanctuary and Gladiator Games, with an introduction by Aleks Sierz.

As much an act of celebration and defiance as an important historical document, Mixed Company collects the earliest known Jamaican plays, preserving three unique voices that capture the spirit of a country fighting to gain its independence from colonial rule. Contains the plays The Creatures, Bedward and Maskarade.

A collection of plays linked by their scrutiny of the Domestic, by one of post-war Britain's most important and abiding dramatists. Contains the plays The Friends, Bluey, Men Die, Women Survive, and Wild Spring.

A collection of plays linked by the emergence of a distinct comic voice, Wesker's Comedies reveals an unexpected side to one of post-war Britain's most important and abiding dramatists. Contains the plays The Wedding Feast, One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round , Groupie and The Old Ones.

Three bitingly intelligent post-war plays from one of Britain's most underrated dramatists, collected together for the first time, with an introduction by academic Carole Bourne-Taylor. These insightful, modernist dramas fiercely question British high society, religion, war and sexuality, in masterful prose.

Target Audience: Fans of fringe theatre, Edinburgh festival, music hall, vaudeville theatre, and dark comedy.

Targets fans of British comedy, kitchen sink dramas and 60s survivors.

Great for fans of Jewish and historical dramas. Includes an epilogue by the author, "My Burning Protest" after Emile Zola. The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France from its inception in 1894 until its resolution in 1906. It was a series of events that brought into the spotlight a host of political, social and moral issues.

The new collection from Richard Bean, one of Britain's leading playwrights and the author of One Man, Two Guvnors.

A collection of avant garde instrumental performance pieces by Poland's greatest polymath. Formally innovative, these plays defy categorisation, conventions and the expected, and instead challenge and perplex the reader. Contains Scenario for a Non-Existing, but Possible Instrumental Actor, Quartet for Four Actors, and Scenario for Three Actors.

Includes the plays The Castle, Gertrude - The Cry, Animals in Paradise and 13 Objects.

Two of Britain's most enduring and remarkable horror stories, adapted for the stage by multi-award-winning playwrights Lisa Evans and Bryony Lavery.

Four plays that reveal Gregory Motton as a personal and public satirist.Includes an introduction by Simon Usher.

Four original plays by internationally renowned playwright, poet, director and filmmaker Benedict Andrews.

A new collection of three plays by Dea Loher, one of Germany's most highly esteemed contemporary playwrights.

This new series brings together some of the best new writing from contemporary American playwrights. KIN by Bathsheba DoranMIDDLETOWN by Will EnoCOMPLETENESS by Itamar Moses GOD'S EAR by Jenny Schwartz

A play from award-winning writer Michael Wilcox.

These two plays portray the losers in what von Horvath calls "the gigantic battle between the individual and society."

With contemporary settings, this title features young and adventurous plays. It includes "Best Man Speech" (a monologue), "The Last Valentine", and "Broken Journey" ("Time Out" Critics' Choice).

An inspiring play from Eduardo Erba and translated into English by celebrated playwright and translator Colin Teeven.