Product Description: Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays. Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study...read more

Product Description: Laying bare the corrosive effects of feeling that we hide behind hard, bright, spiky smiles, Lucinda Coxon makes us wince in recognition and laugh in horror as her characters worm their way into our brains. What use are words when you’re up against it in the wintry city? And who can you really trust in a cold, alienating world...read more

Product Description: This is a painfully truthful, occasionally cruel, yet laugh-out-loud funny comedy of social and sexual manners set among the urban, thirty-something middle classes. Happy Now? marks the arrival in the mainstream of an acerbic new playwright with a gift for social comedy.

Product Description: Wishbones investigates desire, mortality, shame and redemption in a provincial world that is vanishing before the eyes of its inhabitants In a small town in Derbyshire, two middle-aged friends struggle to face up to the legacy of their shared childhood whilst grappling with present-day relationships and husbands both seen and unseen...read more