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Prickly Heat

By Simon Donald

A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.

Published in volume First Run

Dead Dad Dog

By John McKay

An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.

Published in volume Scot-Free

Writer's Cramp

By John Byrne

The debut play from the author of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti, taking satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions.

Published in volume Scot-Free

The Steamie

By Tony Roper

A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.

Published in volume Scot-Free

Cyrano de Bergerac

By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony Burgess

The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.

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The Guid Sisters

By Michel Tremblay Translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman

Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays

Grace

By Doug Lucie

A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.

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Dora: A Case of Hysteria

By Kim Morrissey

A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.

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The Rivals

By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

One of the best-known eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.