This edition contains the full text of O'Casey's play; notes concerning difficult words and references; and an introduction covering the author's life, social and political events of the period, influences on the author, and the characters and themes of the play.

David Hare's new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's classic and notorious La Ronde. With just two actors (Nicole Kidman and Ian Glenn at the Donmar Warehouse, London) playing all of the parts, he creates a fascinating landscape of dream and longing."

A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character. Harold Pinter's latest play, Celebration, and his first play, The Room directed by the author himself, premiered as a double-bill at London's Almeida Theatre in March 2000.

An adaptation of Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid for the stage. Tim Supple is Artistic Director of the Young Vic. He has already adapted Grimm and Rushdie, and worked with Hughes on Spring Awakening and Blood Wedding.

On the eve of World War II, two young Cambridge ornithologists arrive on a remote, uninhabited Scottish Island. With them on the island are Kirk, the authoritarian leaseholder, and his niece Ellen, a young women in love with the stars of silent comedy. Left alone, they observe each other.