This collection includes four urgent and explosive plays by the award-winning playwright Evan Placey, which deal with issues faced by young people today. They are ideal material for teenagers to read, study, and perform.

Girls Like That: Explores the pressures caused by technology when a photo of a schoolgirl goes viral. Commissioned in 2013 by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth, and West Yorkshire Playhouse, it has since been performed by school and youth theater groups across the UK, at London's Unicorn Theatre, and at the Houses of Parliament. It won the Writers’ Guild award for Best Play for Young Audiences.

Banana Boys: Published here for the first time, drawing on the challenges faced by someone in their school football team – and secretly gay. Commissioned and produced by the Hampstead Theatre's heat&light company in 2010.

Holloway Jones: Holloway dreams of becoming a world-famous BMXer but is held back by the harsh reality of a parent in prison. Making its writing debut here, the play was commissioned by the Synergy Theatre Project, toured schools and Unicorn Theatre in 2011, and won the Brian Way award for Best Play for Young People in 2012.

Pronoun: A love story about two childhood friends who must face the fact that one of them, Isabella, has transitioned to a boy. As one of the plays at the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival, it proved extremely popular with youth theater groups and college companies.

"Perhaps change begins with plays like this" - Lyn Gardner, Guardian, on Girls Like That.

Pages: 320, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm