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Let there be love.
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Jean Anouilh Antigone • Brendan Behan The Hostage • Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons • Edward Bond Saved • Bertolt Brecht The Caucasian Chalk Circle • Fear and Misery in the Third Reich • The Good Person of Szechwan • Life of Galileo • The Messingkauf Dialogues • Mother Courage and Her Children • Mr Puntila and His Man Matti • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui • Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny • The Threepenny Opera • Jim Cartwright Road • Two & Bed (due 2009) • Caryl Churchill Serious Money • Top Girls • Noël Coward Blithe Spirit • Hay Fever • Present Laughter • Private Lives • The Vortex • Shelagh Delaney A Taste of Honey • Dario Fo Accidental Death of an Anarchist • Michael Frayn Copenhagen (due 2009) • Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun (due 2009) • Jonathan Harvey Beautiful Thing • David Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross • Oleanna • Speed-the-Plow • Patrick Marber Closer • Dealer’s Choice (due 2009) • Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, Barney Simon Woza Albert! (due 2009) • Joe Orton Entertaining Mr Sloane • Loot • What the Butler Saw • Mark Ravenhill Shopping and F***ing • Willy Russell • Blood Brothers (due 2009) • Educating Rita (due 2009) • Stags and Hens (due 2009) • Jean-Paul Sartre Crime Passionnel • Wole Soyinka • Death and the King’s Horseman • Theatre Workshop Oh, What a Lovely War • Frank Wedekind • Spring Awakening (due 2009) • Timberlake Wertenbaker Our Country’s Good
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Elmina’s Kitchen first published by Methuen Drama in 2003
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Fix Up first published by Methuen Publishing in 2004
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Statement of Regret first published by Methuen Drama in 2007
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Let There Be Love first published by Methuen Drama in this volume
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