<DIV><P>Penhall's 1994 play <I>Some Voices</I> was described as 'the most thrilling playwriting debut in years' by the <I>Sunday Times. </I>He has consistently lived up to and exceeded that early promise as the plays in this second volume of his work testify. Characterised by a taut mood, a grappling with moral dilemmas, and tough, eloquent dialogue, punctuated by outrageously comic moments, the plays in this volume are:</P><br><br><I>Blue/Orange:</I> An incendiary tale of race, madness and power set in a psychiatric hospital. <I>'Britain's best new play since Michael Frayn's Copenhagen ? thrillingly original' Financial Times</I> <br><I>Dumb Show </I>sees TV star Barry caught in a tense game of manipulation and entrapment in this satire on the fame game and the media industry: <I>'Penhall brings the same sharpness and wit to Dumb Show that he did to his hugely successful Blue/Orange' The Times</I> <br><I>Wild Turkey</I> (1993): a characteristically taut work about the acrimonious relationships of people in a late-night burger bar. <I><BR>'More than any of his peers Penhall has shown a rare aptitude for confronting headline issues of the day, using his gift of the gab as a dramatist to interrogate their underlying complexities and contradictions' Daily Telegraph</I></DIV>