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Uncommon Women and Others

Comprised of a collage of interrelated scenes, beginning with a reunion, six years after graduation, of five close friends and classmates at Mount Holyoke College
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Under Milk Wood

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Wood is "lyrical, impassioned and funny, an Our Town given universality" (The New Statesman and Nation).
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Understanding Literature and Film: Interpreting meaning from written and visual media

This expert study guide will meet the needs of all students whether they are studying the field with a literature/film studies curriculum, as part of a wider literature programme, or as a distinct subject within media studies. It will help students to write better essays, to speak with more authority in tutorials and seminars, and to prepare for examinations and assessments with more confidence.
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Unnecessary Farce

Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go. In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes.
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Vanities: A Comedy in Three Scenes

This long-running hit starred Sam Waterston on Broadway as an urban architect whose attempts to improve humanity by the environments he creates, only leads to chaos when the high-rise boom goes bust and two close friends are caught in the cross-hairs.
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Waiting for Godot

In Waiting for Godot, two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The tramps hope that Godot will change their lives for the better. Instead, two eccentric travellers arrive, one man on the end of the other's rope. The results are both funny and dangerous in this existential masterpiece.
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Waiting for Lefty

Consisting of a series of related vignettes, the entire play is framed by the meeting of cab drivers who are planning a labour strike
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

The powerful collection of stories, set in the Northwest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection went on to become one of the most influential pieces of literary fiction.
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