Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)

Don't be miserable, you wonderful woman; be a mermaid.

Austin, working on his Hollywood screenplay, is disturbed by the arrival of his estranged brother, Lee, just returned from three months in the desert.

Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party.

Could peace come after?

Where our real home might be is tricky to say.

Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall.

Why you always got to dig things up?

Andre and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years.

Okot wants nothing more than to get to the UK.

The Hogarth Plays catch one of England's most celebrated artists at two crucial points in his career: once at the beginning, and once at the end.

I'm older now.

Halvard Solness has arrived at the pinnacle of his career.

You know, love is milk, that's what it is.

Nobody likes Ben.

Three years after a difficult breakup, Steph and Greg are wondering if they can start over again.

After a lifetime of reading books on chivalry, Don Quixote decides to embark on a quest of his own.

It's the legendary hot summer of 1959 and while the Cold War rages and America tunes into I Love Lucy, Captain Jack Fox - believed missing in action in the fields of France fifteen years before - is about to be reunited with his family in the Hamptons.

This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references.

The change will come.

What if every neuron in the human brain could be mapped and decoded?

Aly is struggling with all the pressures of being a teenager: family, school, friends and her own insecurities.

I choose to take back my life.

And what does sorry mean?

This Dog, our girl, they're not expecting her to win.

While her bullying and unfaithful boyfriend, Dave, is reporting in Iraq, Ann seizes the opportunity to change the locks and take up with her infinitely more considerate colleague Patrick.

I can't take care of you anymore.

Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land.

Some say power's an illusion.

This second collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage contains his adaptations of Moliere, Racine and Victor Hugo.

This second collection of Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays contains her work from 1995 to 2001.

In the savage 1942 winter siege of Leningrad, as the Russians fight off the Nazi invaders, three teenagers - Lika, Marat and Leondik - are thrown together.

Hamlet and Ophelia express the infinite variety of their passion in a work which takes the form of an epistolary play in verse.

Steven Berkoff is a phenomenon.

This is a collection of three history plays, each displaying the sparkling muscularity of language that marks Berkoff out as one of the foremost wordsmiths in the English language.

The child's down a hole, the mother's up to high doh, the town's up in arms and humanity's down the drain.

On a spring morning in London, eight women, young and old, speak for the continuity of everyday life.

A phrase we used to use: it is the best gift the British people have given to themselves.

I blame the books they learned to read with.

Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy.

what if i'm not funny though - what if i go out there and i'm not funnySteve Johnston, guided and inspired by his girlfriend, is a small-time comedian, raw, original and true.

'I want to give my country a model of perfection.

America.

Because we live in Europe.

Dinner'A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next .

Not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found.

Passion.

I will have poetry in my life.

Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science.

It's November 1917 and the Third Battle of Ypres is lurching towards its bloody conclusion.

we're still ourselves when we lieJoan and Tom have been married for nearly thirty years.