Books in the Play Anthologies series

A collection of ten new plays for young people specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the New Connections Festival 2011 which will involve 200 schools and youth theatre groups in the UK and Ireland. Each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises.

This diverse anthology features eight contemporary plays founded in testimonies from across the world. Showcasing challenging and provocative works of theatre, the collection also provides a clear insight into the workings of the genre through author interviews, introductions from the companies and performance images which illustrate the process of creating each piece.Bystander 9/11 by Meron Langsner is an impressionistic but wholly authentic response to the catastrophe as it unfolded and in the days following. Big Head by Denise Uyehara is an interrogation of current perceptions of "the enemy now" as seen through the lens of Japanese American internment during World War II. Urban Theatre Projects' The Fence is a tale of love, belonging and healing. It is a tender work that looks at the adult lives of five family and friends who spent their childhoods in orphanages, institutions and foster homes in Australia. Come Out Eli: Christmas 2002 in Hackney, London, saw the longest siege in British history. Using interviews collected at the time and further material gathered in the aftermath, Alecky Blythe's play explores the impact of the siege on the lives of individuals and the community.The Travels: members of Forced Entertainment undertook a series of journeys during one summer, each travelling alone to locations in the UK to complete tasks determined only partially in advance. This began a mapping process and the creation of a landscape of ideas, narratives and bad dreams.On the Record by Christine Bacon and Noah Birksted-Breen circumnavigates the globe to bring true stories from six independent journalists, all linked by their determination to shed light on the truth. Created by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith and Susan Yankowitz, Seven is based on personal interviews with seven women who have triumphed over huge obstacles to catalyse major changes in human rights in their home countries of Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala and Cambodia.Pajarito Nuevo la Lleva: The Sounds of the Coup by María José Contreras Lorenzini focuses upon sense memories of witnesses who were children at the time of the 1974 military coup in Chile.

"Frontline Drama" is a series focusing on new original plays as well as adaptations, versions and translations. This volume is a follow up to "Adapting Classics", and focuses on adaptations of modern novels.

One of a series presenting plays by women writers which were staged in 1992-1993. This volume contains "The Woman Destroyed" by Simone de Beauvoir", "What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband" by Elfriede Jelinek, "The Choice" by Claire Luckham and "Weldon Rising" by Phyllis Nagy.

An anthology of plays written by women: "Purgatory in Ingolstadt" and "Pioneers in Ingolstadt", "Avant-garde", "Close Encounter" and "I Wasn't Aware of the Explosive" by Marieluise Fleisser; "Tokens of Affection" by Maureen Lawrence; and "Variations on a Theme by Clara Schumann by Sheila Yeger.

For the first time, there is an anthology of monologues for young people available, taken from plays commissioned as part of the National Theatre Connections over the past 20 years. Always drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights - a mixture of established and current writers - the annual National Theatre Connections anthologies offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department and reflects the past year's programming at the venue in the plays' ideas, themes and styles. The plays are performed by approximately 200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres where the works are showcased.This anthology of 100 monologues is the ideal resource for teenagers and young people attending auditions either in the amateur or professional theatre world; students leaving secondary school to audition for drama school; as well as teachers of English and Drama looking for suitable dramatic for their students to engage with and perform. It provides suitable scene-study books that are suitable and relevant to the student in terms of tone, style and content. Young actors who have searched for audition material written in the voice of teenage characters will welcome this resource.

The filleting machine; You are my heart's delight; Shooting the legend; Wittgenstein on Tyne; Laughter when we're dead; Cold calling. These six titles make up Live Theatre, a celebration of the finest playwrights from the North East, spanning three generations.

With Black Plays, Yvonne Brewster clearly demonstrated the need for a regular anthology to record the vitality of Black playwriting.

Discusses four stage and film adaptations which demonstrate how contemporary dramatists have transformed well-known novels. The novels are Jane Austen's "Persuasion", Charles Dicken's "Great Expectations", Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter".

A collection of four plays written by homosexuals which speak bravely and confidently to all people in a positive affirmation of being homosexual. The plays are: "A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep", "Days of Cavafy", and two American plays, "Round Two" and "Wild Blue".

This third volume in an anthology of plays contains David Greig's "Europe", a border play based on the conflict in Europe; Joe Penhall's "Some Voices", a study of a young schizophrenic trying to get back on the rails; and Judy Upton's "Ashes and Sand", a topical play about teenage girl gangs.

An anthology of new Scottish plays selected by Ian Brown (former director of the Traverse theatre) and Mark Fisher (Editor of Theatre Scotland)

Written by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, these plays trace the restless urban ambition in contemporary Irish drama to turn the past on its head and look back at the land with scepticism and sometimes a rough, rude glee.

Four short plays for young actors

Four female British plays deal with a poet and her mother, a family's breakdown in communication, a woman who literally wrestles with her problems and the interaction of a group of office workers.

Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love" and "The Marriage of Figaro".