A first volume of four plays from the American playwright whose play Dying City was a critical and popular success at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006. Other People is set in New York among a twenty-something generation whose lives and hopes are blighted by disillusionment born of affluence and impotence in the face of the unknown. Where Do We Live, set in a post-September 11 world, asks to what extent New York's liberal multicultural society is under threat and how much should we care about the state in which our neighbours live. The Coming World moves from Shinn's usual Manhattan environment to the coast of New England, where Dora is persuaded, against her better judgement, to help her ex, Ed, in a desperate attempt to escape from spiralling debt. Dying City shifts between 2004 and 2005 - the eve of one brother's departure for Iraq and the day that his twin brother visits his now widowed sister-in-law. The books also features an introduction by the author.