One of Britain's leading young playwrights, Simon Bent's previous plays include Goldhawk Road, Wasted, and Bad Company. Sugar, Sugar will premiere at London's Bush Theatre in August 1998.

A darkly comic play from Simon Bent, whose other acclaimed work includes Sugar Sugar, Bad Company and Goldhawk Road.

A pensioner has his council house redecorated by two self-employed chancers. But there are worse crimes than benefit fraud. A richly comic study of politics and wall-papering.

Based on the real-life cutthroat of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and set around the historical pirate republic of Rabat, this wild tale of high seas and low politics exposes the class hatreds and religious hypocrisy of the seventeenth century. Only at sea, under a pirate flag, can the clamorous voices of republicanism, anarchy, and theocracy be heard.

Three acclaimed plays by an original and exciting voice in British theatre.

Inspired by John Lahr's biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, this is a darkly funny and moving play. It tells the sensational story behind the life of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, holed up in a tiny flat in Islington, trading well-trodden insults and hilarious put-downs like any old married couple.

Simon Bent's stage adaptation of Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson's hilarious homage to Manchester