On a remote headland in North Wales a man and his paraplegic son dream of life beyond the confines of their four walls. But when a woman offers them the escape they so crave, they find they are bound by more than their dreams. The jealousy of a bored policeman and the kindness of a mail-order bride set them on a path of hope and destruction about a the ship the dreams.

Tom, a charming Yankee recruiter comes to an unspecified English town and falls in love with the conference centre manager, Julia. But what exactly is he recruiting for? Why does everyone who joins never return, and what's on the other side of the door he ushers them through? When Julia starts to get interested in joining Tom tries to do everything to dissuade her, but who is he protecting and what exactly are the benefits of becoming a recruit? An existential love story that asks questions of who we are, what we want from life and whether we're getting it, The Recruitment Officer is a...

When the named partner of a small law firm dies leaving a large debt, the remaining misfits of the firm - a budding lawyer, wet behind the ears; a drunk, barred in several states; and a young law student who has failed the bar exam a dozen times - are forced to take on just about any client available, including a litigious soccer-mom who would like to sue God for the death of her husband, hit by a lightning bolt on the 15th hole of a municipal golf course. Hoping to make enough money to stay afloat, the firm decides to sue 'big religion' for misrepresentation. The case is complicated,...

Set in real time with a script that allows for the incorporation of up to the minute news stories from the time of production, The Last Christmas is a newsroom drama in the Hollywood tradition, exposing the corporate underbelly of national news in a furious, fast-paced moral comedy/drama where the clock is always ticking. When a leading young producer on a national network runs a story her network disagrees with she finds herself bumped to the graveyard shift along with her on-air anchor. Forced to work Christmas morning amidst a skeleton staff of misfits, Sarah once more finds herself up...

Today, for the first time in longer than anyone can remember, the family are gathering. All of them. They are gathering to celebrate the engagement of the maternal niece, they are gathering to celebrate the last birthday of the patriarch, they are gathering to welcome home the prodigal son and his beautiful girlfriend. They are going to celebrate all this with a slideshow. But this is a family with secrets. A family that believes in sweeping things under the carpet. Of keeping things in the family. Of staying together no matter what the cost. This is a family that believes in taking...

Collected here for the first time, these three plays represent the dramatic, political and above all human voice of this prolific new playwright. THE VISITOR - A Poet pursues his lover's husband into a war torn country in an attempt to find her. BEGAT - A young woman tries to assassinate a high court judge as a result of a string of inter-racial judicial measures GREAT - High above a village, a father and son battle the encroaching winter, haunted by the loss of the woman in their lives.

No one asks after dead children. That's the long and short of it. No one asks how they're doing at university or whether they've got that job they were going for. No one asks after their partners, or their spouses. No one asks about their children. No one wonders if they call. Baroness Armstrong, a retired High Court judge and member of the House of Lords, is asked by the Home Secretary to interview a young woman who has just returned from Iraq with a view to using her as a poster child for a proposed bill limiting the return of jihadists who have joined the conflict in the Middle East. In an...