New Releases by David Storey

''The latest collection of David Storey''''s plays; including the newly revised and revived The Changing Room. Introduced by the author This third volume of David Storey''''s plays contains The Changing Room (Royal Court 1971)- ''''If The Changing Room is Storey''''s most powerful drama, it is because he has found in sport his purest metaphor for the war of existence'''' (Time Magazine); Cromwell (Royal Court 1973)- ''''An exploration of the vices and virtues of the English Puritan instinct using the historical associations of the Cromwellian period. On top of that it is also an impressive piece of poetic drama employing a spare, flinty, concrete language that seems to be hewn out of rock.a rich and complex play'''' (Guardian); Life Class- ''''a portrait of a man, dangerous, controlled, and wounded, who brings down his whole career in one enormous gesture signifying that all we hold of good from the past is now incapable of renewal and irrelevant to our present needs.Life Class is not merely a very good play. It is a blazing masterpiece.It is a tremendous experience and its glare lights up the sky.'''' (Sunday Times) ''''David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama'''' (Guardian)''

The Phoenix Theatre is going dark-indeed, being demolished for more profitable purposes. Its artistic director is determined to stay for the bitter end, and as he holes up for the last twenty-four hours, all the ghosts of his murky career parade before him. Not only the theatre, but he too, is due for demolition. By one of our major writers, this play is about the survival of theatre: physically, emotionally and culturally.

A spiritual autobiography in the form of 40 years of collected verse. David Storey was born to a Wakefield mining family, and his poetry begins with a portrait of buried men and their industrial community. It explores the forces of regeneration and of faith tempered by doubt.

It is the 60th wedding anniversary of Tommy Pasmore and his wife. Their three children, Colin, the friendless academic who has bought the house in which his parents now live, childless Wendy, forsaking marriage for politics, and pragmatic Eileen, have returned home to celebrate, if that is the right expression. The senior Pasmores live together despite each other and as the layers of formal affection and bickering banter are peeled back we discover deep wells of disappointment and despair, not only for themselves but also for a society that appears to have exchanged one kind of poverty for another. But only by incanting memories can the elderly couple come to terms with their barren present and terrifying future.

Article on the danger of inferring that the results obtained from a study on small scale industry employment creation potential in the USA are applicable to UK industrial policy - reviews conclusions of "The Job Generation Process" by D.L. Birch, finding that 66 per cent of new jobs generated in the USA manufacturing sector are in a size of enterprise of less than 20 employees; makes comparisons using statistical tables on new and small enterprise in the UK county of Cleveland, Midlands, Glasgow and Birmingham.