Books in the Contemporary Dramatists series

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

This second volume of Ridley's stage plays confirms him as one of the most imaginative, daring and unique voices currently working in theatre. All four plays collected here contain that strange mix of the barbaric and the beautiful he has made all his own.

The first collection of plays by the author of the successful trilogy of work produced at the National Theatre between 2003 and 2008. Besides Elmina's Kitchen, winner of the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, the volume contains Fix Up, Statement of Regret and Let There Be Love.

A first collection of plays by the winner of the 2001 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.

Murphy Plays: 5 brings together four of the authors recent works: The Wake, Too Late for Logic, The House, and Alice Trilogy. It is published to coincide with the Irish premiere of Alice Trilogy at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

This second collection from Britain's third most-performed playwright includes "Teechers"; "Happy Jack"; "September in the Rain"; and "Salt of the Earth" and provides a companion volume to "John Godber: Plays 1".

This collection of Ben Elton plays includes three works: "Gasping" is a satire on yuppiedom, advertising and corporate greed; "Silly Cow" is a satire on the modern world; and "Popcorn" adopts the sick humour, violence and sexiness of the Stone-Tarantino school of film-making.

Three plays by one of Europe's most important playwrights, including "The Crime of the Twenty-first Century", "Olly's Prison" and "Coffee".

First collection of seminal plays by one of Wales' most talented writers

Three plays by well-known American playwright, David Mamet. His play "American Buffalo" won an Obie Award and opened on Broadway in 1977 and at the National Theatre in 1978. His greatest hits, "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Oleanna" followed in 1983 and 1993 respectively.

"Europe" is set at a railway station in a town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love and loss. "The Architect" charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, an idealistic designer whose visions are now crumbling. "The Cosmonaut's Last Message..." tells the stories of an eclectic mix of people.

First publication of up-to-date playable translations of Brecht. Mr Puntila, Mother Courage and A Servant to Two Masters were huge hits when they transferred to the West End.

This is a collection of four plays from the winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. Wole Soyinka's work often features in GCSE and A level texts, as well as being studied at university level. She looks at African tradition by often using dance and music in her work.

Six plays by David Mercer, compiled as a follow-up edition to "David Mercer Plays: One". Three of the plays in this volume were premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Includes the early plays, "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg", "The National Health" and "Forget-Me-Not Lane". Each play is introduced by the author with extracts from his diary. This edition is being published alongside "Nichols Plays: Two".

The second volume of plays by the author, includes Truly, Madly, Deeply

A collection of four plays by Richard Cameron.

Contains three of Tom Murphy's plays "Famine", "The Patriot Game" and "The Blue Macushia", which has never before appeared in print. Tom Murphy is an Irish playwright whose work has been staged at the Royal Court, Warehouse and Almeida theatres.

This selection of David Edgar's dramatic work features three plays: "Ecclesiastes", a late 1970s radio play; his acclaimed stage version of "Nicholas Nickleby"; and "Entertaining Strangers", an English left-wing social drama.

A collection of plays by Sarah Daniels which includes "Masterpieces", a study of the effects of pornography, "Ripen Our Darkness" and the George Devine Award-winner "Neaptide".

The English translations of four of the plays of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, France's most successful contemporary playwright. The work includes: "Don Juan on Trial"; "The Visitor"; "Enigma Variations" and "The Space Between Two Worlds", a metaphysical comedy set in the "Two Worlds Hotel".

The second in a series of "World Classics" presenting David Mamet's stage plays. Those in this volume date from the 1980s.

This collection of plays by one of Britain's most prominent political dramatists offers the best of his work from the 1980s. The plays include "The Romans in Britain", "Thirteenth Night", "The Genius", "Bloody Poetry" and "Greenland".

"Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties ... the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today ... Bond's plays cannot be ignored" (Independent)

The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixti

This volume contains the best of David Edgar's work from the seventies

The second collection of plays from eminent playwright James Graham, bringing together four of his state-of-the-nation plays.The volume includes the following plays, alongside an introduction by the author:This House (2012) explores Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament through a combination of wit and waspish dialogue, comedy and political comment, and historical and contemporary concerns.The Angry Brigade (2014) takes a look at the story behind the Angry Brigade - a British anarchist group who carried out a series of bomb attacks between 1970 and 1972.The Vote (2015) looks at what happens in Britain on election night through the eyes of those at the polling station. Set in a fictional London polling station, Graham's play dramatises the final ninety minutes before the polls close in the 2015 general election.Monster Raving Loony (2016) explores the life and exploits of Screaming Lord Sutch to examine the state of the nation and Britain's post-war identity crisis. It tells the story of Sutch through a cavalcade of comic characters from music hall to Monty Python, panto to Partridge.

Four plays inspired by and originating on the European stage from one of Britain's most important playwrights.Three Kingdoms was presented at Teater NO99 in Tallinn, Estonia on 17 September 2011, before opening at the Munich Kammerspiele, Germany, on 15 October 2011. 'An inconsolable mood of dread, abandon, violence and suspicion lurks beneath the show's skin of arty insouciance, and at times the script attains a lyrical pitch of accusation against the West that quite overrides the flippancy. There's something of value here.' Daily Telegraph;The Trial of Ubu premiered at the Schauspielhaus Essen in a co-production with the Toneelgroep Amsterdam. 'The play certainly gets at the banality of evil, and evokes the slow, sometimes dull, often uncertain slog of justice.' Sunday Times.Subtitled 'A Play For Young People', Morning was developed in partnership between the Lyric Hammersmith, London, and the Junges Theater, Göttingen. The Financial Times described it as 'theatrically daring and uncompromising'; Carmen Disruption, a reimagining of Bizet's opera, premiered at the Deutsche Spielhaus in spring, 2014, before its UK premiere at the Almeida, London, in April 2015. 'You can't help but be moved by the circumstances facing the five main characters. There's an understanding and a compassion amid the bleakness. And a fierce sense that something needs to change.' Guardian;

Onassis portrays the last years of the life of the wealthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who, after a notorious affair with Maria Callas, married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President John F. Kennedy, in 1968.Passing By, first performed in New York in 1975, is both a brave and a charming romantic comedy about a love between two men whose hearts pull them together as their lives pull them apart. "One of the most radical plays ever written. Quirky, funny, touching, romantic and revolutionary. It overturned my life. Perhaps it will do the same for others." Simon Callow The Miser is Moliere's satirical masterpiece about obsession and status endures. Fast, funny and full of energy, this sparkling new version by Martin Sherman is as pertinent today as it was when first written and performed by Moliere in the seventeenth century. Sherman's adaptation received its world premiere at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, on 11 April 2013.