Böcker i Modern Plays-serien

Tony's ready to live-it-large and love again. But his efforts to step back on to the scene are hampered by a secret his friends, Monica and Kevin, should have told him long ago. This play is a funny and caustic exploration of love and the limits of friendship.

With the debate about evolution behind him, Darwin now finds guidance from tabloid horoscopes and trashy novels in a beach house in Mailibu. But when his friend Thomas Huxley washes up on the beach with the Bishop of Oxford, he finds himself entangled in a life and death comedy.

Confusion and fear permeate society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison. "From Zia With Love" is based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s. "A Scourge of Hyacinths", written for radio, presents variations on the same theme.

By the author of "Shopping and F***ing", this play is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality.

Two runaway teenagers are drawn into a web of heroin addiction and prostitution when their search for adventure takes an unfortunate turn.

"Complicite not only open our eyes to Bruno Schulz but turn his densely impressionistic stories into a piece of vividly imaginative theatre" (Michael Billington, Guardian)

A boy is found dead and DC Joe Stephens must return to his old neighbourhood to investigate. Shanice studiously avoids his enquiries into her boyfriend Emile's gang of friends. But when a reward is offered and Ibiza beckons, the girls and boys face the biggest test of street loyalty.

A play. The party that he and his brother Darren have been planning has been brought forward - to tonight.

Two plays by one of Britain's most prolific young black authors

Hippolytus, the spoiled prince, is driven to preserve his self inviolate. Emotions, particularly love, and need of any type are an unbearable threat to the prince. Phaedra, his stepmother, is in love with him. The impossibility of the situation leads to their bloody destruction.

In this exploration of love and relationships, Cannon explores how much you need to see of someone to know they are worth taking a chance on.

Investigates desire, mortality, shame and redemption in a peculiarly English setting - a small town in Derbyshire - a provincial world that is vanishing before the eyes of its inhabitants.

A reissue of Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist - a sharp satire on police corruption. The play concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters' window.

Learn a good wind-up, learn the pull of cash, learn drugs, learn sex, and run wild with the market monkeys. Stay sharp in the ruthless world of Essex traders. Romford Market, 1985 - this boy has everything to learn. This work presents a story about losing your innocence, and your cherry.

"The greatest American playwright of his generation" (New York Magazine)

Features blackly humorous drama of Einstein's tortured conscience. This book is a thought-provoking drama addressing issues of 'yob' culture and the effects of bullying. It commemorates the World Year of Physics, the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the 50th anniversary of Einstein's death.

In 1940's New York, the performer who everyone wanted to see live was Florence Foster Jenkins, an enthusiastic soprano whose pitch was far from perfect. Based upon a true story, the play spins from Florence's recitals and extravagant balls, through to her bizarre recording sessions and her triumph at Carnegie Hall in this heart-warming comedy.

Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship

Two exhilarating plays by the author of Shopping and F***ing: pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success; Citizenship is a work for young people written for the National Theatre's Shell Connection Programme.

Piano/Forte is a bold new comedy staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2006. On the eve of his wedding to the glamorous Dawn, Clifford's plans for a joyous celebration are thrown into turmoil by the return home of his estranged daughter Louise. Her plans to exact revenge prove to have explosive consequences.

Coach and Bossman are a dynamic duo tearing up the airwaves at Borough FM. Together they have become radio heroes, but someone's getting above their station, putting Borough FM in the shade. 93.2FM is a sharp comedy about friendship, dreams and the conflict awakened by ambition.

Ghosts is published to coincide with the Gate Theatre's production of Amelia Bullmore's new translation of Ibsen's classic.

A play about love, family and the price of retribution The May Queen is a dark and brutal thriller set against the backdrop of wartime Merseyside. This is a programme text edition produced in collaboration with Liverpool Everyman Theatre where the play opens in May 2007.

Produced as a programme text for the world premiere of the work at the Royal Court Theatre's Theatre Upstairs, Alaska explores the life and lies of Frank in a play that raises questions about identity and race in modern Britain.

A debut work produced at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007 as part of its Young Writers Festival and published as a programme text. Gone Too Far! is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture. It was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008.

Aalst is a powerful and disturbing drama about two parents who murder their children. The play is based on real events from the Belgian town of Aalst in 1999 where the ensuing high profile and dramatic trial led to much soul-searching in the Belgian media.

This volume contains the three most recent plays by the playwright credited with bringing poetic drama back to the Irish stage. The plays are "White Woman Street", "Steward of Christendom" and "The Only True History of Lizzie Finn".

Based on the Booker-shortlisted novel by Rohinton Mistry and adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, this programme text edition of A Fine Balance is published to coincide with Tamasha Theatre Company's 2007 revival and tour of the hit play.

An epic new play by Leo Butler written in response to The Tempest, commissioned and produced by the RSC and opening at the Tricycle Theatre, London, in February 2008.

Joe Guy is a powerful new drama about race and prejudice within the black community that opens at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, in October 2007. This is a programme text edition.