No other major playwright of the last 50 years has undergone such a reappraisal as Rodney Ackland. Interest in his work has renewed in the 1990s, starting at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, with further revivals at many theatres, including the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Royal National Theatre. In Plays Two, we are reminded once again of Ackland's dangerous gift.

Presented as a trilogy at the New End Theatre in 1995 before touring much of Europe, The Dybukk pays homage to Ansky's great Russian classic. Set in a ghetto in Eastern Europe in 1942, it traces the final moments of five irreligious Jews. A Dead Woman on Holiday is a love story set during the Nuremberg trials. Theresa is based on secret research into the Channel Island occupation, where the play is still banned.

Includes the first publication of Sugar in the Morning, performed in 1959 at the Royal Court Theatre.

Commisioned to celebrate the millennium, this epic community drama has been devised to evolve alongside drama workshops for high profile performances in 1999 and 2000.

The holy mothers are three ordinary women. Their lives are grosteque and their fantasies are lurid. This horrifically funny masterpiece signalled the meteoric rise to fame of the young Austrian, Werner Scwab (1958-1993).

The second revised edition from Oberon Books. The autobiography of Sir Peter Hall.

A backstage look at music hall, variety and vaudeville, illustrated with the posters and the photographs of thetime.

Since Hasek's comic masterpiece was first produced in 1920s Pargue, there have been countless attempts to stage this sprawling story of the seeming idiot, Svejk, who survives the horros of the First World War through use of his very idiocy. This new adaptation draws on contemporaneous styles such as futurism and surrealism, as well as rhe ideas of Hasek's fellow Czech, Franz Kafka.

The town of Pensacola, Florida, is set alight by the fiercest of battles: a struggle that pits the law of God against the law of the land, and the right to life against the right to choose. A gripping new play about the war between an abortion clinic and pro-life extremists, and about the irreconciable differences that simmer beneath the surface of a liberal society.

The Dreams of Anne Frank examines the inner life of the girl whose fate has affected the world. On Margate Sands is a humorous and poignant portrait of a group of dispossessed mental patients, who manage to survive the odds. Call in the Night examines the guilt of a world-class violinist, the only survivor of a family wiped out by the Holocaust.