Kirjahaku

This collection includes four of the best plays from one of the leading playwrights of the 80s Progress: 'A small, anguished, hilarious masterpiece' Evening Standard; Fashion: 'One of the best plays of the 1980s - a rancid, state-of-the-nation account of a corrupt advertising supremo pitching for the Tory account in the run-up to a general election' Daily Telegraph; Grace: 'This is a clear, strong, thoughtful and tough play, full of cruel humour and an entirely unpatronising sense of moral judgement' (Sunday Times); Gaucho: 'Savagely entertaining ...Lucie's dialogue is smooth and insinuatingly funny' (Evening Standard)

We're supposed to be having a party. It's s'posed to be fun. This is my house, and when I say everybody have fun, then everybody have fun.Thatcher's Britain – Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the streets, in the safety of their home, a group of Oxford University graduates barely notice what's happening on the streets outside as police and rioters clash, shops are looted, and buildings are set on fire. In both worlds there is a fight for rights... a fight for respect ... a fight for control. Who will win? Who will lose? Who will make the strongest cocktail? And when the dust finally settles the question remains... Will things ever change? Hard Feelings was first staged at the Oxford Playhouse in 1982 before transferring to the Bush Theatre in 1983, directed by Mike Bradwell. It was later broadcast as a BBC Play for Today. Hard Feelings was revived by Defibrillator Productions in a production at the Finborough Theatre in 2013.

A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England. Deep in the English countryside, Ruth Hartstone has reluctantly decided to sell the family estate to an American religious outfit with plans to turn it into a Christian leisure and satellite broadcasting complex. Doug Lucie's play Grace was first staged at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 1993.