Selected Plays 1999-2009

David Greig: **Plays 1** brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the **Daily Telegraph** as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation'.

In **Outlying Island** two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent to a remote island. Together with its authoritarian leaseholder and his niece they observe an innocence that is about to be destroyed forever. **San Diego** offers a strange and occasionally nightmarish journey into the heart of the contemporary American dream, weaving together stories of illegal immigrants, of film stars and whores, and even of the playwright himself. **Pyrenees** follows a man found lying in the snow in the foothills as he tries to piece together his identity. In **The American Pilot** a crash-landing in a remote valley in a distant country raises questions about how the world sees America and how America sees the world.

The collection also includes a trilogy of short plays, **Being Norwegian**, **Kyoto** and **Brewers Fayre**, published here for the first time.

**Outlying Island**

'I can't recommend it highly enough . . . A rich, charged play, veering between the comic and the poetic as innocence gives way to experience.' **Telegraph**

**San Diego**

'A surreal and intriguing piece of theatre . . . dazzling . . . Home and awake from the mythical dream that is *San Diego*, the name David Greig remains imprinted on our minds.' **Independent**

**Pyrenees**

'All the wit and intelligence of previous works, probing away at concerns that are both contemporary and timeless...A classy, rewarding, engaging drama, Greig's best to date.'** The Times**

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**The American Pilot**

**'**One of the most intellectually stimulating dramatists around. A richly provocative new play.' **Guardian**