Act One Wales

Phil Clark

This substantial collection of one act plays from Wales charts the rise of Welsh Drama from the 1950s to the present. From the Dylan Thomas classic, ’Return Journey’, to the work of established names likes Charles Way and Frank Vickery, to the more recent plays by young writers like Edward Thomas and Ian Rowlands, this book presents a significant overview of the drama of our era …

Crossing the Bar (Three Plays)

Lucy Gough

There’s a point in between. The sea and the sky, Heaven and Hell, life and death. Where the debris of life carried out on the flow meets the sea and is forced to let go. If you fail to cross over that bar you go down with no soul. So says the mysterious Keeper of the purgatorial cell that is the setting for the poetic and evocative ’Crossing the Bar’ ...

Mary Morgan (Three Plays)

Greg Cullen

’Mary Morgan’ is the story of a young servant girl seduced and then betrayed by her master’s son. Pregnant and in despair, she is trapped into actions that have ultimately tragic consequences ...

On the Road Again: Three Plays

Laurence Allan

The striking humour and resilience of his characters, often at odds with social and political trends, beset by unemployment and harsh circumstances, shines through ...

The Scam

Peter Lloyd

Sharp-edged, tough and funny, ’The Scam’  is Peter Lloyd’s play about two young Welshmen out to hit the business big time. Keen to escape their dead-end lives on a housing estate, AI and Oar make do picking apples until a chance meeting with the quick-talking Finn sets a wholesale scheme in motion that could net them all thousands ...

The Shakespeare Factory (Three Plays)

Dic Edwards

New Plays for Young People: The Shakespeare Factory must produce five-minute video versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Will factory manager Gillian Brutus get the videos to the Government Officer on time? Shop Steward Jack Cash puts up a fight, and the actors are unruly and rebellious ...

Three Plays by Charles Way

Charles Way

’Dead Man’s Hat’ explores the myths of the Old American West, with many an acknowledgement to films like Shane and High Plains Drifter. A compelling stranger arrives at a remote homestead. Seventeen year-old Anne is ready to fall under his spell...

The View from Row G: Three Plays

Dannie Abse

Three plays from one of Britain’s leading and best loved literary figures: ’House of Cowards’, ’The Dogs of Pavlov’ and ’Pythagoras (Smith)’. All previously performed in London, these prize-winning plays originate in Abse’s preoccupation with personal and public themes ...

Waiting at the Water’s Edge

Lucinda Coxon

’Waiting at the Water’s’ Edge is a gripping new play by Lucinda Coxon. It opens with a chance meeting between two young girls, Vi and Su, on a North Wales beach. Their fates become entwined when they are both employed as servants in the same house ...