Ms Malpede is a significant figure in East Coast contemporary drama, having written eighteen plays and being the co-founder, director and resident writer of Theater Three Collaborative which is based in New York. She is an editor and is on the faculty of the City University of New York. The four plays in this collection were each developed by Theater Three . . .

Almost all European countries have a strong tradition in theatre and can boast a number of world class playwrights, some fledgling countries are only at the start of creating a tradition as this excellent anthology demonstrates.

It is an interesting, but not particularly edifying fact about humans that we tend to like people like ourselves. Not only that, but we tend to believe people like ourselves rather than others: suits are more likely to believe suits, bearded lefties bearded lefties and so on. No particular harm done until that preference carries over into prejudice against anyone not like ourselves . . .

Although his name may not be universally familiar as a rock star, his family name will be recognised by everyone and provides the credentials that justify his autobiography being included in these august pages. The son of John le Mesurier and Hattie Jacques, his childhood was spent surrounded by actors and musicians . . .

centres on the earliest surviving motion picture filmed in a British theatre. Brief but amazingly eventful, it records the conclusion of The Bandits, a London Hippodrome sketch performed in 1902 . . .