'The first volume of collected plays from acclaimed dramatist David Lan Painting a Wall : ''an essential theatrical image of the human condition'' - Plays and Players Red Earth : ''Mature skill...in the course of a lunchtime, 70 years of South African history are played out with power and poignancy'' - The Times Flight : ''a play that gives you faith in new writing'' - City Limits Desire : ''a ballad and an act of faith'' - Sunday Times The Ends of the Earth : ''The work of a genuine theatrical poet . . . we should be so lucky to have ambitious, hypnotic writing in our theatre'' - Observer''These plays are unique in contemporary theatre; wonderful immersions into foreign worlds that touch our own'' (John Lahr)'