<DIV><p> <I>Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco</I>: Owen's first work for the stage, published in February 2001 to tie-in with the production by Paines Plough and Sgript Cymru. Saturday night, small-town Wales, one pub, one party, and three lads stuck with their school reputations and desperate to get the hell out.</p> <p> <I>The Shadow of a Boy</I>: Premiered at the Royal National Theatre in June 2002; joint winner of the George Devine award and winner of the Meyer Whitworth Award. The scheduled destruction of Earth alarms eleven-year-old Luke almost as much as starting at the comp.</p> <p> <I>The Drowned World</I>: Premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, August 2002; won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival and was joint winner of the 2003 Pearson Best Play Award. A vicious tale of love, revolt and beauty in a world where surfaces matter more than love and kinship.</p> <p> <I>Fags</I>: A brand new short work, regarded as a companion piece to <I>Cancer Time</I>. </p> <p> <I>Cancer Time</I>: A work that premiered at the Latchmere Theatre, London, September 2004. A small city, a long way from the action. Two girls are killing time in a call center. They are waiting for their lives to start. For something to happen. For a piece of the action to come to them. Today, they are going to get their wish.</p> <p>The volume is introduced by Vicky Featherstone of Paines Plough, and the new first director of Scotland's National Theatre. </p> <p> <B>Gary Owen</B> is the author of <I>The Island of the Blessed</I> and <I>Ghost City</I>. His play <I>The Drowned World</I> won the 2002 George Devine Award.</p></DIV>