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Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War.

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Hampstead, 1936. In a shabby basement flat, aspiring playwright Clive Monkhams dreams of a West End hit and winning Francie's heart.

With opening night approaching and finances fast running out, everything rides on the success of the play and, for Clive, the future looks all too glittering

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Two plays -- The Dark River and After October -- by a master of the British stage. In The Dark River, set in the late 1930s, the flamboyant characters are cocooned in a Thames backwater, ignoring the turbulent events of a politically unstable Europe. After October is Ackland's most personal, autobiographical play.

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Includes the plays Smithereens, Strange Orchestra, Before The Party and The Old Ladies from Rodney Ackland in this second collection published by Oberon Books. With an Introduction by Michael Hastings.