Books in the Contemporary Dramatists series

This collection of Jim Cartwright's plays includes "Road", "Bed", "Two" and "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice".

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

This collection brings together four of the early plays from the winner of the 2002 Pearson Best New Play Award. Since "Bluebird" in 1998, Stephens has gained recognition for humane plays that display a sharp observation and compassionate response to the lives of ordinary people in urban locations.

Stephens Plays: 2 brings together four major plays by this award-winning playwright from the first decade of the twenty-first century and the short play Sea Wall, frist produced at the Bush Theatre in October 2008. The collection features an introduction by the author.

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

This collection of Poliakoff's plays from the 1970s includes his first major success, "Clever Soldiers", and "Hitting Town", "City Sugar", "Shout Across the River", "American Days" and "Strawberry Fields".

A collection of plays by one of Ireland's finest dramatists of the 80s and 90s

Includes, among others, the plays, "The Freeway", "Privates on Parade" and "Passion Play". Each play is introduced by the author with extracts from his diary. This edition is being published alongside "Nichols Plays: One".

"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre" (Observer)

Volume one of Shepard's collected plays brings into print 14 of his legendary short and full-length plays from the 60s, including "The Unseen Hand", "Chicago", "Icarus's Mother", "Red Cross", "Cowboys", "Operation Sidewinder" and "Killer's Head".

This volume includes the "Evening Standard" Award-winning play "Talent", and Victoria Wood's other stage play "Good Fun", both premiered at the Sheffield Crucible. Alongside these plays are three TV scripts, including the acclaimed "Pat and Margaret".

Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time

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

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

This first collection of Mike Bartlett's plays showcases the adroit expertise and flair of a writer known for laser-sharp political comment, tight dialectics and needlingly real characters. Charting Mike Bartlett's stellar rise as a playwright, this volume is introduced by Sacha Wares.

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

A collection of plays by Sue Townsend, including "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" adapted from the novel, "Wombergang", set in the waiting-room of a gynaecology clinic, "Bazaar & Rummage" about a community jumble sale, "Groping for Words", and "The Great Celestial Cow", about Indian immigrants.

A collection of four plays by Willy Russell. The plays are "Educating Rita", "Breezeblock Park", "Our Day Out" and "Stags and Hens". All the plays are concerned with working class people striving to enjoy life or improve themselve

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".

A mixture of social satire, comedy and tragedy. This volume contains two major plays, "Red Noses" and "Sunset Glories", and a series of three short plays on disability including "Nobody Here But Us Chickens". Two plays on figures from the past, "Columbus" and "Socrates" have also been included.

Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists