Product Description: High-profile production, written by acclaimed creative team.

Product Description: The first volume of collected plays from acclaimed dramatist David LanPainting a Wall: 'an essential theatrical image of the human condition' - Plays and PlayersRed Earth: 'Mature skill. . .in the course of a lunchtime, 70 years of South African history are played out with power and poignancy' - The TimesFlight: 'a play that gives you faith in new writing' - City LimitsDesire: 'a ballad and an act of faith' - Sunday TimesThe Ends of the Earth: 'The work of a genuine theatrical poet ...read more

Product Description: When an irrigation engineer sent to a Third World country discovers that where he wants to dig the ditches is an old burial site, he tries to overlay his Western perceptions onto customs of another country. Back in England, his wife and the slow death of his child is also "another country"...read more

Product Description: A translation of one of Euripides' finest plays by one of Britain's most experienced translatorsIon is the story of the abandoned child Ion, reunited with her mother Xouthos

Product Description: "Desire" is set in a remote village in an African country at the end of a war of liberation at the time of the transition from one society to another. Also in this volume are two earlier plays, "The Winter Dancers", which is about shamanism among the Indians of British Columbia, and "Sergeant Ola"...read more

Product Description: Against the backcloth of Euripides' The Bacchae, the most darkly anarchic and sexually disturbing drama in Greek literature, Caryl Churchill, author of Top Girls (Royal Court, 1982) and David Lan, author of Flight (RSC, 1986), working with Joint Stock Theater Group, have created a contemporary play of startling intensity combining drama and dance...read more

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