Published to tie in with performances by Claire Dowie at the Drill Hall, London

Two new plays by Claire Dowie which focus on sex and repression and friendship among gay and lesbian characters.

The latest collection of plays from "the female counterpart to Quentin Crisp" (Evening Standard)

The Year of the Monkey, originally written for BBC Radio 3, comprises Bonfire Night, in which a daughter takes her sweet revenge; Arsehammers, where a grandson is sure that his grandfather's strange disappearances reveal supernatural powers, The Allotment, in which a quiet community of pensioners create a radical, anarchic commune by mistake, and The Year of the Monkey, where a mother yearns for some bad behaviour to puncture the boredom of her middle-class life.

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