Books by Anthony Neilson

A second collection of plays by Scottish writer Neilson that showcases the more surreal and comic side of his recent work.

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.

Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they can finish their Christmas Eve shift: to tell the old couple at number 58 some terrible news. But what if the shock is too much for them? Maybe they'd be happier not knowing. And maybe they shouldn't be involved in a lynching.

"This is a profound and tragic vision of humanity at its bare, forked basics" (Patrick Marmion, Evening Standard)

This collection of Anthony Neilson's plays contains: "Normal"; "Penetrator"; "Year of the Family"; "The Night Before Christmas"; and "The Censor".

In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? This dark and intimate play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness.