Maydays & Trying It On

A Nick Hern Book

Maydays & Trying It On first published as a paperback original in Great Britain in 2018 by Nick Hern Books Limited, The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP

This ebook first published in 2018

An earlier version of Maydays was published by Methuen Drama in 1984. The play is published here by permission of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

David Edgar has asserted his right to be identified as the author of these works

Front cover image © RSC

Designed and typeset by Nick Hern Books, London

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 84842 732 7 (print edition)
ISBN 978 1 78850 111 8 (ebook edition)

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