Lord Primrose Agar wagered one of his tenant farmers, Orlando Harrison, that his border collie pup Jip would outlive the 94-year-old Harrison. The prize would be eighty-two acres of up and down, near Driffiels in East Yorkshire. Thirteen years later, having buried his dog, Agar shook hands with Orlando and conferred on the Harrisons a century of struggle.

Challenging and exciting plays by an award-winning playwright. In Toast seven men come together to bake enough bread to feed the population of Hull, but there's a conflict in the works. Smack Family Robinson is about a family of drug dealers and the changes to the business since they began in the 1960s. Also includes Mr. England and Honeymoon Suite

Hapless MEP Philip Wardrobe has a busy day ahead of him, balancing his less-than-irreproachable political career with his attempts to start a family.
As he prepares for his girlfriend to fly in from Kettering for an afternoon of fertile frolics, his plan to be voted President of the European Parliament is foiled at every turn by unpredictable colleagues: uncouth Yorkshiremen, irate Turks and amorous Frenchwomen... to say nothing of the mysterious man in the linen cupboard.
In the Club is a political sex farce which opened at the Hampstead Theatre in July 2007.

Set amongst the expatriate Irish community of New York as they try to raise money for NORAID, the charitable organization often accused of being an IRA front. New York fire fighters of Irish descent give money to NORAID, along comes 9/11, and several die at the hands of a terrorist group.

Written with scurrilous bravura, Richard Bean's great sweep of a comedy follows a pair of star-crossed lovers amid cutters' mobs, Papists, Jewish anarchists and radical Islamists across four tempestuous centuries. -Irish and Jewish, that's the worst mix. You end up with a family of drunk burglars run by a clever accountant.-

A black comedy to tackle the divisive issue of climate change, The Heretic questions the position of science in the global argument and invites us to honestly consider what we think we know.

The latest collection from Richard Bean, one of Britain's leading playwrights, author of One Man, Two Guvnors and the fastest-selling playwright in the history of the West End. This volume features an introduction by Mark Lawson and includes the plays The Heretic, The Big Fellah, and England People Very Nice.
The Heretic was Winner of the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Best New Play Award
The Big Fellah was shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Theatre Play 2011.
-Delicious... Bean's writing scintillates. Pulsing with...

Dylan isn t your typical snooker player. He s a vegetarian, for starters. This is the biggest week of his life and everybody wants a piece of himhis ex-con Dad, local gangster Waxy Chuff, and the snooker corruption squad. From the author of One Man, Two Guvnors, this is a laugh-out-loud comedy/thriller about love, honor, and not getting snookered.

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