First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part 1 Scenes for One Woman and One Man; Chapter 1 The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh; Chapter 2 Boys' Life, Howard Korder; Chapter 3 Broken Glass, Arthur Miller; Chapter 4 Closer, Patrick Marber; Chapter 5 Dog Opera, Constance Congdon; Chapter 6 The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein; Chapter 7 The Lodger, Simon Burke; Chapter 8 The Pitchfork Disney, Philip Ridley; Chapter 9 Raised in Captivity, Nicky Silver; Chapter 10 Shopping and F***ing, Mark Ravenhill; Chapter 11 Simpatico, Sam Shepard; Chapter 12 Some Voices, Joe Penhall; Chapter 13 Two, Jim Cartwright; Chapter 14 The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, Debbie Isitt; Part 2 Scenes for Two Women; Chapter 15 Amy's View, David Hare; Chapter 16 The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh; Chapter 17 The Cripple of Inishmaan, Martin McDonagh; Chapter 18 Kindertransport, Diane Samuels; Chapter 19 Low Level Panic, Clare Mclntyre; Chapter 20 The Memory of Water, Shelagh Stevenson; Chapter 21 My Mother Said I Never Should, Charlotte Keatley; Chapter 22 A Perfect Ganesh, Terrence McNally; Chapter 23 Serving it Up, David Eldridge; Chapter 24 Sweet Panic, Stephen Poliakoff; Chapter 25 Talking in Tongues, Winsome Pinnock; Chapter 26 Weldon Rising, Phyllis Nagy; Chapter 27 The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, Debbie Isitt;