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England, 1656. After the execution of the king, the country veers dangerously toward anarchy. Against this background, John Milton and Oliver Cromwell meet for a heated debate about how a country can regain its equilibrium after a bloody insurrection and if good government can be enforced from above on a divided nation. Though firmly set in its period, Through a Cloud reaches forward to the present day.

Before there is Revolution there must be Revelation.

In Lambeth is set against a background of the French and American revolutions. Pursued through the streets of Lambeth by an anti-republican mob, Thomas Paine seeks sanctuary in the garden of William Blake and his wife Catherine only to find them naked up a tree reading Paradise Lost and communing with angels.

Originally produced in 1989 and first published the following year, this new edition published to correspond with the revival at the Southwark Playhouse, Lambeth, London in July 2014.

Bill Bryden's Cottesloe Company, which flourished at Peter Hall'sNational Theatre, was the English theatre's only true ensemble of thelast thirty or so years. Impossible Plays tells the story ofthe company and the many actors and musicians connected to it.Co-written by Keith Dewhurst, author of eight plays for the group, andJack Shepherd, a founder-actor, it explains the ideas behind thecompany's work and how the work was staged, and provides anidiosyncratic, lively and deeply personal take on the company.

"The search was always to find a popular theatre, a form...