Mullarkey Plays

Rory Mullarkey, a British playwright, has won the Harold Pinter Commission, the James Tait Black Prize for Drama, and the George Devine Award for most promising playwright. His work has been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, the National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, and Shakespeare's Globe.

This is his first collection of plays. It gathers three plays that were previously published with two that have not appeared in print before, presenting a varied selection from a writer already well established in contemporary British theatre.

The collection opens with Single Sex, a story of obsession, and moves to Tourism, a humorous look at modern cultural identity. Cannibals follows, alongside Wolf From the Door, which mixes absurdity with dark humour. The volume closes with Each Slow Dusk, a short war play that captures a British soldier's experience in under an hour and is formally inventive.