Nicholas Wright: Five Plays (NHB Modern Plays)

A rich selection of work from the late 1970s and 1980s, introduced by the playwright.

The plays contained in this volume are:

The Custom of the Country
An updating of Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama.

The Desert Air
A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

Mrs Klein
A play about the controversial psychoanalyst.

One Fine Day
A comedy about the gulf that separates Britain and Africa.

Treetops
A play based on the author's own rebellious boyhood in South Africa.