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One of a series presenting plays by women writers which were staged in 1992-1993. This volume contains "The Woman Destroyed" by Simone de Beauvoir", "What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband" by Elfriede Jelinek, "The Choice" by Claire Luckham and "Weldon Rising" by Phyllis Nagy.

An anthology of plays written by women: "Purgatory in Ingolstadt" and "Pioneers in Ingolstadt", "Avant-garde", "Close Encounter" and "I Wasn't Aware of the Explosive" by Marieluise Fleisser; "Tokens of Affection" by Maureen Lawrence; and "Variations on a Theme by Clara Schumann by Sheila Yeger.

Four short plays for young actors

For the first time, there is an anthology of monologues for young people available, taken from plays commissioned as part of the National Theatre Connections over the past 20 years. Always drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights - a mixture of established and current writers - the annual National Theatre Connections anthologies offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department and reflects the past year's programming at the venue in the plays' ideas, themes and styles. The plays are performed by approximately 200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres where the works are showcased.This anthology of 100 monologues is the ideal resource for teenagers and young people attending auditions either in the amateur or professional theatre world; students leaving secondary school to audition for drama school; as well as teachers of English and Drama looking for suitable dramatic for their students to engage with and perform. It provides suitable scene-study books that are suitable and relevant to the student in terms of tone, style and content. Young actors who have searched for audition material written in the voice of teenage characters will welcome this resource.

With Black Plays, Yvonne Brewster clearly demonstrated the need for a regular anthology to record the vitality of Black playwriting.

Discusses four stage and film adaptations which demonstrate how contemporary dramatists have transformed well-known novels. The novels are Jane Austen's "Persuasion", Charles Dicken's "Great Expectations", Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter".

A collection of four plays written by homosexuals which speak bravely and confidently to all people in a positive affirmation of being homosexual. The plays are: "A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep", "Days of Cavafy", and two American plays, "Round Two" and "Wild Blue".

This third volume in an anthology of plays contains David Greig's "Europe", a border play based on the conflict in Europe; Joe Penhall's "Some Voices", a study of a young schizophrenic trying to get back on the rails; and Judy Upton's "Ashes and Sand", a topical play about teenage girl gangs.

An anthology of new Scottish plays selected by Ian Brown (former director of the Traverse theatre) and Mark Fisher (Editor of Theatre Scotland)

Written by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, these plays trace the restless urban ambition in contemporary Irish drama to turn the past on its head and look back at the land with scepticism and sometimes a rough, rude glee.

Four short plays for young actors

Four female British plays deal with a poet and her mother, a family's breakdown in communication, a woman who literally wrestles with her problems and the interaction of a group of office workers.

Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love" and "The Marriage of Figaro".

A collection of four contemporary plays by homosexual writers: Playing by the Rules by Rod Dungate; Plague of Innocence by Noel Greig; Snow Orchid by Joe Pintauro; and the George Devine winner Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey.