'Claw' is a savage and comic portrayal of life among the post-war poor:
it shows realistically the British way of life after 1945; brutish,
deprived but in many ways colourful with its class-hatreds, sexual freedoms
and Political conflicts.

'No End of Blame': This play is based on the life of Vicky Weiss, the
brilliant cartoonist whose work appeared in many British newspapers,
especially the Evening Standard and The New Statesman. In the play, which
starts during the white terror in Hungary that followed the first World War
and the Russian Revolution, a young artist barely escapes the slaughter and
ends up in Britain.

'Victory': Set against the backdrop of restoration Britain
characterises the revanchist return of Charles II and the Cavaliers. The
returning Cavaliers persecute the remaining Roundheads, even to the point
of exhuming the decomposed parts of the dead. Bradshaw, widow of a late
Cromwellian minister, sets out to find and reunite the parts of her
husband's body. A powerful play with a political edge that has proved one
of the author's most successful.

'Scenes from an Execution' explores the relationship between artist and
his or her responsibility to the state is explored. It was originally
written for radio and won the prestigious Italia prize in an all-Europe
competition. Set in Venice after the battle of Lepanto, it dramatises the
dilemma of an artist who against the direction of the Doge wishes to paint
the brutal truth of war not to falsify the legacy of war which leads to her
falling out of favour. An exploration into the moral responsibility of the
artist.

'The Castle': Set in medieval Spain, The castle shows the lengths to
which the returning Crusaders will go to subjugate the women who have
created a feminist commune in their absence. A tragic exploration of pain,
absence and sexuality.

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