Books in the Contemporary Dramatists series

This volume contains the complete collection of Sarah Kane's plays, including "Blasted"; "Phaedra's Love"; "Cleansed"; "Crave"; "4.48 Psychosis"; and "Skin".

One of the most exciting young dramatists to emerge in Britain during the 1990s. His three most important plays in one volume

This second collection of plays by Caryl Churchill includes "Objections to Sex and Violence", "Softcops", "Top Girls", "Fen" and "Serious Money".

Lucy Prebble is one of Britain's foremost writers for the stage and screen. This eagerly anticipated play collection brings together her landmark plays for the first time, showcasing her work from 2003 to 2019. Beginning with her George Devine Award-winning play The Sugar Syndrome it continues through her explosive look at the biggest financial scandal in history, concluding with her pointed dramatization of the one of the most shocking news stories of the 2010s. The Sugar Syndrome (2003) Dani is on a mission. She's just 17, hates her parents, skives college and prefers life in the chatrooms. What she's looking for is someone honest and direct. Instead she finds Tim, a man twice her age, who thinks she is 11 and a boy. What seems at first to be a case of crossed wires, ends up as an unlikely, and unsettling friendship between the two, which culminates in a shocking, and morally challenging revelation.Enron (2009) One of the most infamous scandals in financial history became a theatrical epic in Enron, a dazzling exposition of the shadowy mechanisms of economic deceit. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy and surreal metaphor, Enron follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s, and the financial chaos which has spilled over into the new century.The Effect (2012) a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved.A Very Expensive Poison (2019) A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair.

If there is anyone who should be the children's playwright laureate it is David Wood' (Evening Standard)

A second collection of plays from one of Britain's most original dramatists

The "Street of Crocodiles" creates a vision of provincial Poland in the early part of the century as a restless ocean of unending flux. "Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol" offers an unsentimental evocation of peasant life, while an ice-preserved body forms the central image of "Mnemonic".

A collection of plays by Sarah Daniels which includes "Beside Herself", "Gut Girls", "Headrot Holiday" and "The Madness of Esme and Shaz".

First collection by a young dramatist with few peers. This volume showcases the best four early plays by the writer behind the smash hit stage adaptation of Festen Serving It Up - a 'precociously deceptive' debut play about East End loutishness.

This third collection from playwright John Godber includes "April in Paris", "Up 'n' Under" and "Perfect Pitch" and provides a companion volume to John Godber Plays 1 and 2.

A collection of 8 plays by British black comedy writer Lee Hall. It includes: "Spoonface Steinberg", a play on faith, love and the meaning of life; "Cooking with Elvis", the story of a family of an Elvis impersonator now tied to a wheelchair; and "Bollocks!", an examination of lives ruined by war.

Contains Bond's plays from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bond is one of Britain's most widely read and staged playwrights, whose first play, "Saved", made a successful appearance at the Royal Court in 1965. His plays offer political and moral critiques of human society and relationships.

This collection of plays by one of Britain's most controversial dramatists includes "The Ruling Class", "Leonardo's Last Supper and Noonday Demons", "The Bewitched", "Barnes' People: Eight Monologues".

The third volume of Poliakoff's plays in the "Contemporary Dramatists" series contains his award-winning screenplays, "Caught on a Train" (BAFTA for Best Single Play, 1980), and "Close My Eyes" ("Evening Standard" Best Picture of 1991), and the play "Coming in to Land".

This is a collection of Joe Penhall's plays, beginning with "Some Voices" and "Pale Horse", which both premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1994 and 1995 respectively.

A collection of five plays written by Judy Upton: "Ashes and Sand"; "Sunspots"; "People on the River"; "Stealing Souls"; and "Know Your Rights".

This volume contains six plays by Arnold Wesker: "Annie Wobbler"; "Four Portraits - of Mothers"; "Yardsale"; "Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon?"; "The Mistreess"; and "Letter to a Daughter".

The first collected edition of darkly humorous plays.

"The Morning After Optimism" borrows patterns from European fairytale to explore the relationship between reality and illusion. "The Sanctuary Lamp" is a play about spritual refugees, and "The Gigli Concert" is the story of a man who, wishes to sing like Gigli.

An anthology of the work of Germany's most famous living playwright. This collection includes Through the Leaves, his study of the frail, flawed relationship between a middle-aged woman tripe butcher and a loud-mouthed factory worker, which became a West End hit in Summer 2003.

The first collection by Sweden's foremost contemporary playwright

An important new voice for African-American theatre, Katori Hall explores the lives of black and often invisible Americans with vivid language, dynamic narratives and richly-textured characterisation. This first collection of her plays showcases her visceral, passionate and energetic writing.

A collection of plays written in collaboration between John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy. The plays featured here include "The Business of Good Government", "Ars Longa Vita Brevis", "Friday's Hiding", "The Royal Pardon", "Vandaleur's Folly" and "The Little Gray Home in the West".

This is a second collection of plays by British playwright, Roy Williams.

Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time, enjoying international acclaim and prestige. This anthology contains three of Michael Frayn's best-known titles: Copenhagen, Democracy and Afterlife, as well as an introduction by the author and a chronology of his work.

A collection of history plays by Peter Whelan, one of Britain's most interesting contemporary playwrights. The plays are "The Herbal Bed", "The School of the Night" and "The Accrington Pals".

The first collection by a seminal contemporary gay playwright

Murphy Plays: 6 collects together the author's work derived from or inspired by other great works of literature. The most recent play in the volume, The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant, premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland, in 2009.