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.