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The Great Game: Afghanistan is an extraordinary cycle of plays by some of Britain's leading contemporary playwrights. "The Great Game" was a term used for the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia.

The second collection of plays by Gail Louw, including the plays Duwayne, The Mitfords, The Half Life of Love and Joe Ho Ho.

The first collection of plays from the critically acclaimed Karen Zacarías, one of the ten most produced playwrights in the USA.Contains the plays Native Gardens / The Book Club Play / Destiny of Desire The Book Club PlayA hit comedy about books and the people who love them. When the members of a devoted book club become the subjects of a documentary filmmaker and accept a provocative new member, their long-standing group dynamics take a hilarious turn. Sprinkled with wit, joy and novels galore.Destiny of DesireOn a stormy night in Bellarica, Mexico, two baby girls are born - one into a life of privilege and one into a life of poverty. When the newborns are swapped by a former beauty queen with an insatiable lust for power the stage is set for two outrageous misfortunes to grow into one remarkable destiny. Karen Zacarías infuses the Mexican telenovela genre with music, high drama and burning passion to make for a fast-paced modern comedy.Native GardensYou can't choose your neighbors. In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo's colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples' notions of race, taste, class and privilege.

THE BOMB - A Partial History is a season of plays from leading contemporary dramatists, charting the political history of the Nuclear Bomb and its proliferation from 1940 to the present day.FIRST BLAST (1940 - 1992) features plays by John Donnelly, Elena Gremina, Amit Gupta, Zinnie Harris & Ron Hutchinson. It is the first year of World War II, and in Whitehall two émigré Jewish scientists are waiting for a meeting to get the British establishment to take their nuclear research seriously. The following plays then trace the history of the Labour party wrestling with the decision to build the Atomic Bomb, the Cuban missile crisis from a Russian perspective, China's war with India and the subsequent development of India's bomb, the break-up of the Soviet Union and the unilateral disarmament of Ukraine.SECOND BLAST (1992 - 2012) features plays by Lee Blessing, Ryan Craig, David Greig, Zinnie Harris, Diana Son & Colin Teevan. A contemporary take on the non-proliferation debate looking at Israel and Iran's nuclear capability, the 'axis of evil' speech and its affect on North Korea, the U.K.'s continuing reliance on Trident in the post Cold War era, through to the current negotiations with Iran and weapons' inspections there.

Includes the plays Flesh to a Tiger, Skyvers and The White Witch Barry Reckord's place in the history of black playwriting in the United Kingdom unfortunately has been almost unrecognised previously. Reckord was among the first modern Caribbean playwrights to have work produced in England. As a Jamaican abroad in the '50s and '60s he laid a solid foundation for later emerging Caribbean playwrights such as Trinidadian Mustapha Matura, Guyanese Michael Abbensetts and Jamaican Alfred Fagon in the '70s, all of whom appreciated how well Reckord's work had paved their way forward. No scripts of Reckord's impressive body of work have been made available previously, many incomplete manuscripts exist but this is the first complete volume of Reckord plays. Here we present three, each from a different decade. These are 'Flesh to a Tiger', 'Skyvers' and 'The White Witch', each with an introduction by a prominent authority on the subject or author.

Includes the plays Prince Friedrich von Homburg, The Broken Pitcher and Ordeal by FireHeinrich von Kleist committed suicide in 1811. His masterpiece, Prince Friedrich von Homburg, is set in the world of Prussian militarism. The young cavalry general of the title achieves swift victory in the field, only to be sentenced to death for rash disobedience. In the comedy, The Broken Pitcher, a visiting judge comes to inspect a small village and finds it rife with corruption. Ordeal by Fire is a beguiling piece about the mysterious love of an armour-repairer's daughter for a young travelling knight.

Includes three comedies - Too Clever by Half, Crazy Money, Innocent as Charged - and a tragedy The Storm from the father of Russian drama.Ostrovsky (1823-86) paved the way for twentieth-century stage realism in Russia. These plays are populated by characters that reveal Ostrovsky's talent for well-turned idiomatic phrases and his acute observation of behaviour and conditioning.

The second collection of plays by acclaimed British dramatist Tanika Gupta includes The Empress, Lions and Tigers and her adaptation of Great Expectations.

Presenting four plays, this work includes "Toast" where seven men come together to bake enough bread to feed the population of Hull. It also features "Honeymoon Suite" that deals with love, and middle manager Stephen England ("Mr England").

A new collection of contemporary Spanish plays in English translation, edited and translated by William Gregory.

Three plays by multi-award-winning Australian writer Lachlan Philpott, including M. Rock, Little Emperors, and The Trouble with Harry.

A collection of four plays from leading British Jewish playwright Julia Pascal. This is the first collection of plays by Pascal and features themes of violence, death, love and sex.

Two comic plays by one of Britain's seminal playwrights, that show another side to the writer of Dangerous Corner and An Inspector Calls.

These two plays portray the losers in what von Horvath calls "the gigantic battle between the individual and society."

Five new short plays developed and supported by The Mono Box.

A collection of three plays for the Young Vic's participation programme Taking Part, written by award-winning playwright Luke Barnes.

A new collection of three plays by Dea Loher, one of Germany's most highly esteemed contemporary playwrights.

A collection of four classic farces from Ben Travers (1886-1980), who was known as the master of the "Aldwych Farce."

Two of Britain's most enduring and remarkable horror stories, adapted for the stage by multi-award-winning playwrights Lisa Evans and Bryony Lavery.

Plays Two is the second volume of brand-new English translations of selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aiming to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.

Plays One is the first volume of brand-new English translations of selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aiming to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.

'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David LanHanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.Plays Three contains the plays The Thin Soldier, Bachelors and Bachelorettes (2002), Everyone Wants to Live, The Constant Mourner (2019) and The Lamenters (2000).

An anthology collecting 23 'letters left unsaid' from some of the most exciting voices in the UK and beyond.

From Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world to the edges of the great Paraná river, and from the city of Buenos Aires to its fertile plains and the estuaries of northern Argentina, The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays provides a unique insight into the preoccupations and the creative responses of one of the major theatre-producing countries in Latin America.Includes the plays:La vida extraordinaria (Extraordinary Life) by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, translated by Catherine BoylePato verde (Green Duck) by Fabián Miguel Díaz, translated by Gwen MacKeithFonavi by Leonel Giacometto, translated by Rosalind HarveyNou Fiuter (No Future) by Franco Calluso, translated by William GregoryPoema ordinario (Poor Men's Poetry) by Juan Ignacio Fernández, translated by William GregoryFuego de dragón sobre dragón de madera (Dragon Fire over Wood Dragon) by Candelaria Sabagh, translated by Kate Eaton

The first collection of plays from Inua Ellams, one of the UK's most exciting playwrights and a poet, novelist and graphic designer. Includes The 14th Tale, Untitled, Black T-Shirt Collection and Knight Watch.

There's A Room brings together three works by Third Angel: Where From Here, Presumption and What I Heard About the World.

Collected together for the first time are four works by young British playwright Thomas Eccleshare, whose plays have been performed to national and international acclaim over the past decade.