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 CountryAn updating of Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama. The Desert AirA wartime comedy set in Cairo. Mrs KleinA play about the controversial psychoanalyst. One Fine DayA comedy about the gulf that separates Britain and Africa. TreetopsA play based on the author's own rebellious boyhood in South Africa.