Books by Philip (Author) Osment

Philip Osment's final play, Can I Help You? is a magical realist examination of the role race and gender have to play in mental health and suicide.

Individual stories of first loves and old flames, alliances and abandonment, missed opportunities and new chances intertwine to paint a vivid picture of Eighties Britain

Hearing Things explores the dilemmas of psychiatry from the points of view of patients, relatives and staff. Based on experiences of psychiatrists and patients, the `healthy' and the `ill', the play examines how and if people heal and recover inside institutions.

"A dramatist of exceptional and distinctive promise" (Daily Telegraph)

This trilogy of 'Devon Plays' from the mid-1990s examines rural life and its claustrophobia with poignancy and humour. The Dearly Beloved won the 1993 Writers Guild Award; What I Did in the Holidays was nominated for the 1995 Writers Guild Award; and Flesh and Blood was produced at the Lyric Theatre, in 1996.

A tender family play from Philip Osment.

Osment has written and directed plays for two of the country's most prominent young people's theatres