A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.

A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.

Salome, stepdaughter of King Herod, agrees to perform the mysterious and erotic Dance of the Seven Veils – but demands in return the head of the King's most infamous prisoner, Iokanaan (John the Baptist). To avoid censorship by the Lord Chamberlain, Wilde originally wrote Salome in French, and it premiered in Paris in 1896, while he was in prison. The play was finally seen in London in 1906, but has yet to gain the massive popularity of his comedies.

In this thoughtful and thought-provoking essay, Andrew Frost contextualises the major thematic concerns of Rowan Woods' film The Boys into the broader context of social anxieties about violence, crime and morality.

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa: Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria), 603 by Imad Farajin (Palestine), Damage by Kamal Khalladi (Morocco), The House by Arzé Khodr (Lebanon), and Egyptian Products by Laila Soliman (Egypt).

A passionate, heartfelt play about surviving in a time of civil war, by a leading American dramatist. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

With a background in TV directing, working with professional presenters and training new ones for the TV industry, Kathryn Wolfe takes you through the techniques and skills required to become a successful presenter. 

The Cheeky Monkey, a practitioner’s guide to the art of comedy writing, explains the principles of sitcom writing and guides the reader in how to apply them.

Taking many of the techniques explored in her international bestseller Freeing The Natural Voice, in this companion volume Kristin Linklater shows how to apply them to the exploration and speaking of Shakespeare’s language.