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Robert Holman writes plays of startling beauty, combining close observation of the way people behave with a thrilling and often fiercely uncompromising mastery of dramatic form. He is the playwright most admired by other playwrights. To Simon Stephens, he is My favourite living writer”.

Here, in this selection from Holman’s first decade of playwriting, a monkey is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community