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Plays

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Stunning and other plays

The first collection by a striking new voice in American theatre.

  • Paperback

The Color of Desire & Hurricane: two plays

Two plays by the acclaimed Cuban-American writer.

  • Paperback

Havana is Waiting and other plays

Eduardo Machado’s Havana is Waiting and other plays examines the intersection of the personal and the political on a generation of immigrants. With humor and passion, the author pursues his lifelong exploration of the Cuban-American experience.

  • Paperback

Liz Lochhead: Five Plays

Five plays from the the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the country's best-known - and best-loved - living playwrights.

Halcyon Days

An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit.

What Love Is

A short play about caring for your parents.

Published in volume Sex & God

    Desire Under the Elms

    A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

      The Great God Brown

      A demonstration of O'Neill's expressionistic experimentation with masks to emphasise the distinction between characters, and the lack of understanding in human relationships.

        Water by the Spoonful

        A Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, community and uncertainty.

        • Paperback

        Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue

        An unforgettable journey across time and generations.

        • Paperback

        When Cows Go Boom

        A short play by Stacey Gregg, an oblique parable of love set against the backdrop of a horrific landscape.

        Published in volume Irish Shorts

          Love in a Glass Jar

          A short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.

          Published in volume Irish Shorts

            Meeting Miss Ireland

            A short play commissioned and performed as part of The Fairer Sex, a series of play readings at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in June 2009.

            Published in volume Irish Shorts

              Salad Day

              A short play about an elderly couple who, trapped in a nursing home, plot a daring escape into the sunshine.

              Published in volume Irish Shorts

                Nineteen Ninety-Two

                A short play about two brothers biding their time to savour revenge - but how can they be sure they've got the right girl?

                Published in volume Irish Shorts

                  Investment Potential

                  A short play about a youthful couple who can't seem to pull themselves up the rungs of the property ladder.

                  Published in volume Irish Shorts

                    Ribbons

                    A short play about a parent and child who have been concealing their true identities.

                    Published in volume Irish Shorts

                      The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution

                      A forensic insight into the adjustment of morality for the sake of conscience.

                      Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts