Product Description: Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish...read more

Product Description: Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish...read more

Product Description: An unruly comedy asking if age equals maturity. Dana, Ruth, and Jess down shots to console the heartbroken, to comfort the anxious, and just to pass the time. Jess's dad, Jim, invades the party with just as much recklessness as the girls...read more

Product Description: The children swing their legs on the chairs. The student delivers the presentation. The older woman stands with the gun. The young couple arrives at the house. The house is returning to nature. A movie is being made. The truth is being plundered...read more

Product Description: Millie, a director, discusses with her actors, Ian and Tom, how to interpret two famous historical figures from the nineteenth century. It's 1831. The naturalist Charles Darwin is invited to travel with Robert Fitzroy into uncharted waters off the coast of South America aboard 'The Beagle'...read more

Product Description: After Easter is not a political play, rather a psychological play - inevitably funny. It is a contemporary portrait of a woman who reaches that point in her life when she will either grow or fade, when she will either continue to live in her lesser personality or make that inner marriage which will allow her to enter the mainstream of her larger existence, and, hopefully, swim...read more

Fifteen-year-old Moira, staying with her grandmother while her parents are in the Middle East, learns to face the world of adult emotions through letters from her mother and her relationship with two friends, in a play exploring the confusion of adolescence

Battling through their self-made entrapment for the sake of the kids, Mr. and Mrs. Elliot soon begin to destroy each other through an ugly routine of rows, affairs, and suicidal blackmail. Written with controlled irony as well as compassion for its tormented characters, Ted Whitehead’s unflinching play asks questions about the choices we make to fit in with social conventions.

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Product Description: From the bloodbath of the foot-and-mouth crisis to developers consuming land for real estate, And Then Come the Nightjars charts one farm's struggle to survive the march of history. Fierce with rage and achingly tender in turn, Bea Roberts' play is a story of enduring friendship and a requiem for rural England...read more

Product Description: Winner of The Sunday Times Playwriting Award 2015, Angry is the rallying cry of a generation with nothing left to say; part gig, part drinking game and not for the faint of heart. Written partially in verse; partially in rap (but mostly in swear words), Angry is not quite like anything you’ve ever seen...read more

Product Description: Animals is a wicked satire set in a world where everyone over 60 is tossed on the scrapheap, children are hothoused, and being a ‘burden on society’ is the ultimate crime.

Product Description: Arthur is hiding from the world in his grotty top floor flat. He’d move, if not for his missing son. Today is Michael’s twentieth birthday; will he finally come home? But the person Arthur lets in turns out to be someone else: a teenager seeking refuge from The Fights, the raging riots sparked years ago by a notorious computer game...read more

The hemodynamic significance of the flow properties of blood was put into perspective only during the past decade. Advances in modern technologies today allow the quantitative analy sis of the fluidity of blood and its components under conditions approximating the flow in vivo, particularly those in the microcirculation. The hematocrit is the most important of the determinants of blood fluidity (reciprocal value of blood viscosity); acute increases in the hematocrit exert deleterious effects on circulation and oxygen transport owing to impaired fluidity of blood. High viscosity of plasma due to hyper- or dysproteinemias initiates the microcirculatory dysfunctions in hyperviscosity syndromes. Furthermore, the fluidity or deformability of red cells might be critically diminished and therefore cause redistribution of blood elements and adversely affect the resistance to flow within the microvessels. In low flow states blood fluidity most likely becomes the key determinant for microvessel perfu sion, overriding the neural and local metabolic control mechanisms operative at physiological conditions to adjust blood supply to tissue demand. Microcirculatory disturbances are there fore encountered whenever driving pressures are reduced, as in shock or hypotension, and distal to stenoses of macrovessels, but also in hemoconcentration due to plasma volume con traction, polycythemia, leukemia, and dysproteinemia. Based on experimental studies exploring the possibilities and limitations, with regard to improving the fluidity of blood by reducing the hematocrit, the concept of intentional hemo dilution has been introduced to clinical medicine.

From pornography and ethnic violence, to terrorism and unprotected sex, this work presents an array of nameless characters that attempt to invent the story to encapsulate our time. It has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Product Description: Winner of the George Devine Award in 1993, Babies premiered at the Royal Court theatre, London in September 1994 Liverpudlian Joe Casey is twenty-four, gay and a form tutor at a south-east London comprehensive. Joe's life is spliced between the drug-using excesses of his lover Woodie and the advances of his female pupils (and their mothers)...read more