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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.

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 photographs. Candid photographs. Photographs of things no one thought anyone else knew about. Photographs of each and every dark and secret moment they have kept hidden. Photographs of people when no one else was there. Photos that deal with the remnants of child abuse, infidelity, loss, destruction, and missed birthday parties. It's all coming out today. In black and white. On slides for everyone to see. It's all coming out tonight and everyone's going to know everything. No one's sleeping, and when it's over, there may not even be a family left.

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, however, when the opposition hire a former member of the firm and the love interest of the young lawyer to represent them, and then further complicated when an indigent with no background and an uncanny knack of knowing everyone's background enters the courtroom claiming to be God. Batting back and fore between the courtroom and the personal lives of the lawyers, God is a fast paced courtroom comedic drama that uses original staging and non-linear storytelling to provide a lighthearted yet complex social drama.

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 remodelling of the 1706 play by George Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer.

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.

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 against the network when the story of the millennium falls into her lap. With less than an hour until air, Sarah finds her sense of morality pushed to its limit as she battles to put on a story that nobody wants to hear and everybody refuses to tell. A story which could ruin Christmas once and for all.

Blending quotes and actual events with fictional dialogue, The Crossroads Country dramatizes the last thirty years of Afghan history up to and including the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent invasion. Merging international intrigue with the life of a single Afghan family the play utilizes humour and music as a backdrop to the international catalysts that conceived, created, and implemented the birth of global terror. Why did the Soviets invade Afghanistan? Why did the Americans fund the Jihad? Why did Osama bin Laden go to Afghanistan? Who funded the Taliban? And why was Massoud killed two days before 9/11? With over a hundred historical characters and well over a thousand quotes The Crossroads Country is a fast paced political play that provides an open door to anyone interested in current events as a detailed overview of Afghan history to students of this era and an innovative, informative, and entertaining theatrical experience.

Set around the startling true story of the assassination of Russian journalists Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya, Murder Me Gently blends real life events with Film Noir style storytelling to help highlight the human rights abuses and government oppression systemic in modern day Russia. When a Russian journalist is shot dead on her doorstep, a conman and a spy join forces to wreak revenge on those they consider responsible. But while all is fair in love and war, little is ever civil in the world of international espionage. Who is fooling who? Who is on whose side? And what wouldn't you give to torture an ex? In the classic tradition of Film Noir comes a thriller/ comedy that pits lover against lover, friend against foe, and nation against nation in a global game of cat and mouse that will affect us all.

A comedy set over four acts, Writing William follows a young, aspiring playwright who, in order to get his work on stage, forges a Shakespeare play. Basing the play on the relationship between Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine during the murder of Thomas Becket, the playwright, Will, starts to see it mirror his own failing marriage as he struggles to find approval from an unforgiving spouse. Backed by a working class billionaire and supported by an array of ageing actors, the lead of which is mute, Will finds cathartic release in the writing of the play and it's impending production, but he hasn't taken into account just how gullible the theatre going public truly are. With the play a hit, he is faced with the choice of coming clean and reaping the rewards at the risk of being shunned by his audience, or staying true to his art. A comedic farce, Writing William blends Shakespearian dialogue with modern humor and innovative staging to look at the relationship of the artist and his art, the burden of success upon a relationship and the true cost of producing a play. Number of Characters: 8-10 Setting: New York Bar / Theatre

When the lover of a famous writer goes missing in a war ravaged country, he bribes his way into a jail to question her husband, a Missionary who is being tortured as a training exercise for a young trainee jailer. Alone in the cell the two start a dialogue about the nature of belief. Belief in God, love and politics.

An Allegory In Four Acts A remote room in the throes of winter. The once great man lives alone now with his son. An old friend has come to visit. He has climbed up from the Village in order to offer the old man one last chance to escape the encroaching winter that is about to take him, stirring up memories of better times and the warmth of summer.

A Stage Play In a country, after the war. A Judge throws a dinner party, seeking support against a powerful minister who has raped and killed a servant girl. But the Judge himself is the target tonight, and the shadow of the war he so desperately wants to leave behind threatens to engulf his family as a young woman seeks revenge for the sins of his past.