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Lenin in Love depicts the sexual and sadistic inclinations of one of the twentieth century's foremost political leaders. The Teddy Bears' Picnic shows Stalin playing relaxed host in his country retreat. The Potsdam Quartet features four embittered musicians hired to entertain Stalin, Truman, Atlee and Churchill as they divide up the world.

Lenin, the Communist icon, believed that his secret life would die with him. The opening of the Soviet archives in the mid 1990s has proved otherwise. Lenin in Love is a comedy about a tragedy, which exposes the sexual troika and the sadistic proclivities of arguably the foremost political genius of the last century.

A dark comedy examining what it means to live in an ex-empire in economic free-fall, and the political and personal extremism that results when all other belief is lost. A middle-aged Englishman, bred to believe in his innate
superiority as a birthright of class, race, and gender, loses his job in the City, left to flounder impotently in the world.

In Lady Day, Katya discovers her husband is having an affair with her best friend, so she hibernates in a derelict lakeside cottage to re-invent her life in the depths of winter. In Revelations, a miraculous stranger comes to the aid of a desolate cliff-top village ravaged by storms and erosion. The plays complete the Season's Quartet Pinner began with Midsummer and All Hallow's Eve.

David Pinner's predisposition for the unique and unusual permeates this new collection of dark and comic plays, which dabble in the occult, the fantastical, and the satirical. Includes: Succubus, Cartoon, An Evening with the GLC and Shakebag.

Features three power plays such as "The Drums of Snow", "Richelieu", and "Prince of Traitors".

This trilogy of plays from prolific writer David Pinner taps into the very present fashion for all things vampire related. Encompassing three plays written over a period of forty-five years, The Vampire Trilogy offers unique slants on the occult. Includes Fanghorn, Edred the Vampire, and Lucifer's Fair.

”What purpose is served by showing that England's greatest natural philosopher is flawed … like other mortals?” asks one of the characters in Newton's Darkness. “We need unsullied heroes ” But what if the hero is sullied? At stake is an issue that is as germane today as it was 300 years ago: a scientist's ethics must not be divorced from scientific accomplishments. There is probably no other scientist of whom so many biographies and other historical analyses have been published than Isaac Newton — all of them in the standard...

”What purpose is served by showing that England's greatest natural philosopher is flawed … like other mortals?” asks one of the characters in Newton's Darkness. “We need unsullied heroes ” But what if the hero is sullied? At stake is an issue that is as germane today as it was 300 years ago: a scientist's ethics must not be divorced from scientific accomplishments. There is probably no other scientist of whom so many biographies and other historical analyses have been published than Isaac Newton — all of them in the standard...

In All Hallow's Eve, Sisters Francesca and Lucinda are forced to face up to the erotic demons in their past; during this dark journey of discovery they will all but destroy each other along the way. When Arthur, a limping stranger with a sinister presence, opens Pandora's Box on All Hallows' Eve, the full impact of the past is horrifically brought into the light. Midsummer is a modern homage to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.