Stephens Plays: 2: One Minute; Country Music; Motortown; Pornography; Sea Wall

This second collection of plays by Simon Stephens, winner of the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World, perfectly showcases the development of one of the most exciting and impressive theatre talents of recent years. The range of plays in this volume displays a tough sensibility and a courage to confront the more unsettling challenges of our times.

One Minute, first produced in 2003 and revived in London in 2008, has an uncomfortable resonance as it follows f...