Books by Anders Lustgarten

National Theatre Connections 2012: Plays for Young People: Victim Sidekick Boyfriend Me; Journey to X; Little Foot; Prince of Denmark; Socialism is Great; ... a Superhero?; The Ritual (Play Anthologies)

by Hilary Bell

(11 reviews)

This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2012 involving... See More

Lampedusa (Modern Plays)

by Anders Lustgarten

(17 reviews)

This is where the world began. This was Caesar's highway. Hannibal's road to glory. These were the trading routes of the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, the Ottomans and the Byzantines... We all come from the sea and back... See More

Shrapnel: 34 Fragments of a Massacre (Modern Plays Book 5)

by Anders Lustgarten

There is no such thing as a happy colonised people. Never has been and never will be. That is our basic delusion. December 2011. Watching video footage from a drone, Pentagon officials see a huddle of people - unarmed... See More

HighTide Plays: 1: Ditch; peddling; The Big Meal; Lampedusa (Contemporary Dramatists)

by Beth Steel

HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing. It has been described by the Telegraph as "one of the little gems of the artistic calendar in Britain" and by... See More

The Secret Theatre (Modern Plays)

by Anders Lustgarten

(1 review)

'It's not enough that men are watched; they must think themselves watched, even when they are not' Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham oversees a vast surveillance network from the heart of Elizabeth I's court. As the nation's... See More

The City and the Town (Modern Plays)

by Anders Lustgarten

(1 review)

Tricky things, memories. Not always the way you remember them. When Ben, a successful London lawyer, returns home for his father's funeral after thirteen years away, he is confronted with uncomfortable truths about the... See More

National Theatre Connections 2017: Three; #YOLO; Fomo; Status Update; Musical Differences; Extremism; The School Film; Zero for the Young Dudes!; The Snow ... The Monstrum (Plays for Young People)

by Suhayla El-Bushra

(7 reviews)

Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays... See More

The Magna Carta Plays (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Four new short plays inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by internationally renowned playwrights Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Sally Woodcock. RANSOMED by Howard... See More

The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie: The Formation of Modern China (Modern Plays)

by Anders Lustgarten

Our China is now the worst of all worlds. Communist politics controlled by greedy capitalists, raw capitalist economics controlled by corrupt Communists. Because they're all the same people! At least under me, the people... See More

If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep (Modern Plays)

by Anders Lustgarten

(3 reviews)

"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote morality." David Cameron... See More

Black Jesus (Modern Plays)

by Anders Lustgarten

And do you know why I was called by that name? Because I decided who would be saved and who would be condemned. I took that responsibility for others and now I take it for myself. I am Black Jesus. I do not crawl. Zimbabwe... See More

Three Burials

by Anders Lustgarten

An electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the badlands of South-East England. She's never... See More